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3 unusual facts about Algarrobo


Algarrobo, Spain

The entry of the Arabs in the Iberian Peninsula entailed a resurgence when Berbers from Algiers founded the town of Algarrobo more to the interior and introduced crops such as almonds and raisins and small industries of silk.

Robert Scheidt

He also won in 1996 the World Championship, held in Cape Town, South Africa and again in 1997, in Algarrobo, Chile.

Villa de Merlo

"El Algarrobo Abuelo" ("the Grandfather Carob Tree") is a specimen more than a thousand years old and measuring more than 6 meters.


Épinard

:"Épinard" is French for "spinach" and other plants, such as the Algarrobo of tropical America (Prosopis).

Gauchito Gil

They tortured him and hung him from his feet on an algarrobo tree.

P. alba

Prosopis alba, the algarrobo blanco, a tree species found in Argentina

Santiago del Estero Province

The wood industry of quebracho and algarrobo has also added implanted species totaling an annual average of over 300 thousand tons, of which around 100,000 tons are used for timber and the rest for firewood and vegetal coal.

Stepan Erzia

While in Argentina, Erzia invented a method of processing some locally grown, extra-hard types of wood: algarrobo and quebracho.


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