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2 unusual facts about Campeche, Campeche


Fernando Ortega Bernés

Ortega Bernes was born on February 16, 1958, in the city of Campeche.

Sergio Witz

Sergio Witz Rodríguez (b. 1962 in Campeche, Campeche) is a Mexican poet.


Campeche, Mexico

Campeche, one of the 32 component federal entities of the United Mexican States.

Champotón Municipality

The municipality also includes the offshore Cayos Arcas, about 140 km northwest of Campeche and 150 km north of the mainland coast of Champotón.

Chapultepec Zoo

The native animals came from different Mexican states like Sonora, Veracruz and Campeche, while other animals were exchanged with countries like India, France, Peru and Brazil.

Diego el Mulato

A force of ten or eleven ships and two sloops under the Dutch pirate Cornelis Jol and Diego el Mulato Martín attacked Campeche on 11 August 1633.

Drymaeus serperastrus

The distribution of Drymaeus serperastrus includes the following states of Mexico: Campeche, Quintana Roo, Yucatán, Veracruz, Hidalgo and Tamaulipas.

Escárcega

Escárcega is at the junction of Mexican Federal Highways 251 and 186, and is crossed by the railway that runs from Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz, to Campeche, Campeche.

Escárcega Municipality

It took its name from its municipal seat, which was in turn named for Tlaxcalan railwayman Francisco Escárcega, who built the Ferrocarril del Sureste that runs from Coatzacoalcos, Ver., to Campeche, Camp.

Jan Erasmus Reyning

According to reliable Spanish documents, Reyning offered his services to his former Spanish enemies at Campeche around January 1672.

José María Narváez

For three years he served aboard supply ships working the ports of Veracruz, New Orleans, Mantanzas, Campeche, Roatán, and Trujillo.

Laguna de Términos

Laguna de Términos (Términos Lagoon) is made up of a series of rich, sediment-laden lagoons and tidal estuaries connected by two channels to the Bay of Campeche in the southern part of Gulf of Mexico, in Carmen Municipality in the southwestern part of the Mexican state of Campeche.

María Lavalle Urbina

She was the recipient of numerous awards and recognitions including Woman of the year (1963), The United Nations Prize in the Field of Human Rights (1973), The Justo Sierra Medal from the state of Campeche (1981), The Belisario Dominguez Medal from the Mexican Senate (1985) and the René Cassin prize from the Mexican Tribuna Israelita.

Rosario María Gutiérrez Eskildsen

She was born in Villahermosa (then known as San Juan Bautista) on what was then called Calle Grijalva, her parents were Antonio Gutiérrez Carriles, a Spaniard, and Juana Eskildsen Cáceres de Gutiérrez, a native of Campeche of Danish descent.

Saint-Domingue

The rows of freebooting grew bigger; plundering raids, like those of Vera Cruz in 1683 or of Campêche in 1686, became increasingly numerous, and Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Marquis de Seignelay, elder son of Jean Baptist Colbert and at the time Minister of the Navy, brought back some order by taking a great number of measures, including the creation of plantations of indigo and of cane sugar.

Sergio Witz

On May 7, 2008, a federal court in Campeche found him guilty and, ignoring the public prosecutor's request that a custodial sentence be imposed, ordered him to pay a fine of $50 (€3.10, US$4.75).

Televisión y Radio de Campeche

XHCCA in Campeche, Campeche is the network's flagship station and has two repeaters.

Televisión y Radio de Campeche (TRC) is an educational and public television network owned and operated by the government of State of Campeche.

Uxul

Uxul is an ancient Mayan settlement in the Campeche region of Mexico.

Yucatán, Mexico

Mexico's portion of the Yucatán Peninsula, comprising the states of Yucatán, Campeche, and Quintana Roo.


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