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#10. Hispaniola (DR and Haiti): The Caribbean Sea is a rich surf zone and no island is blessed with more waves than Hispaniola. Shared between Haiti and the Dominican Republic, the DR has many waves on the Atlantic-facing eastern coast and Haiti also gets waves both from the Atlantic Ocean and consistent seasonal windswell in the Caribbean Sea. The big differences are in culture and language, with Haiti being a former French colony and the DR a former Spanish outpost, and in the number of surfers. The DR gets thousands of surfing visitors each year and has hundreds of local surfers while Haiti gets very few surfing visitors and the number of committed surfers in the entire country is less than ten. Image: Callahan/surfEXPLORE