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unusual facts about Candelaria, Tenerife



1979 National League Championship Series

Despite a sore shoulder, Candelaria gutted out seven painful innings before giving way to Enrique Romo.

Atacama Region

The region’s main copper deposit is Candelaria, which produces around 200,000 tonnes per year and is controlled by Phelps Dodge, an international corporation.

Ayssuragan

It was premiered on 14 December 2012 by the Symphonic Orchestra of Tenerife under the baton of Antoine Marguier with Cristo Barrios as a soloist at the Auditorium Adán Martín of Tenerife.

Barlovento

Barlovento, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, a municipality in the northern part of the island of La Palma in the Province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands

Cabildo de Tenerife

The initial location of the Tenerife Town Hall was the Santa Cruz de Tenerife City council building.

Caldera de Taburiente National Park

In 1815 the great German geologist Christian Leopold von Buch visited the Canary Islands during which he visited the island of Tenerife where he was taken to the Caldera de las Cañadas.

Catalina Lercaro

Catalina Lercaro (Catherine Lercaro), 16th century, was an Italian-Canarian woman of the Lercaro family, renowned in the city of San Cristóbal de La Laguna (Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain).

Chaxiraxi

Chaxiraxi was later associated with an alleged appearance circa 1400 or 1401 of the Virgin of Candelaria on Güímar, on the island of Tenerife.

Cumbia music by country

Summer of Cumbia, Los Lobos, Locos Por Juana, Ozomatli, Los Gran Reyes De La Musica, Grupo Fantasma, Super Reyes, Nando y Solja Kingz, La Internacional Sonora Show, Chicha Libre, Kumbia Kings, Selena y Los Dinos, Los Reyes Del Sabor, Sabor Kolombia, Candelaria cumbia dub, Barrio Kings are famous musicians based in the United States that have performed and/or specialize in Mexican cumbia.

Dracaena draco

The specimen called "El Drago Milenario" (the thousand-year-old dragon) growing at Icod de los Vinos in northwest Tenerife is the largest and the oldest living plant of this species.

It is the natural symbol of the island of Tenerife, together with the Blue Chaffinch.

Echium wildpretii

The common names are tower of jewels, red bugloss, Tenerife bugloss or Mount Teide bugloss.

The species is endemic to the island of Tenerife, and is found mainly in Las Cañadas del Teide.

Elena Fortún

Encarna lived mainly in Madrid but also spent time in Tenerife in the Canary Islands, San Roque, Zaragoza, Barcelona, Valencia, France and Argentina.

European Northern Observatory

The European Northern Observatory is the name by which the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias and its observatories (the Teide Observatory on Tenerife and the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory on La Palma) are collectively known.

Flag of Tenerife

An alternative theory is the most influential masters of the island of Tenerife chose a design similar to the Scottish flag belonged to the Masonic Grand Lodge of Scotland and proposed a similar flag for the maritime province of the Canary Islands, which later became the flag of Tenerife.

Giancarlo del Monaco

Since 2009, he has served as the Artistic Director of the Tenerife Opera Festival.

Guaibasaurus

Guaibasaurus was originally named on the basis of the holotype, MCN PV2355, a well-preserved partial postcranial skeleton and the paratype, MCN PV2356, an articulated and nearly complete left hindlimb, which were discovered in the "Sesmaria do Pinhal 2" locality near Candelária, Rio Grande do Sul, in Brazil, in the geopark of Paleorrota.

The specific name is named after Candelária, a city near the fossil locality in which the holotype was found.

Hed Kandi

The Brand partnered with Monarch Airlines to offer flights to various clubbing destinations in Europe such as Ibiza, Cyprus, Tenerife & Barcelona from airports in major British cities such as Manchester, Birmingham, Liverpool, Bristol and London's Gatwick & Heathrow.

History of Ilfracombe

Captain Richard Bowen (1761–1797) James Bowen's younger brother, a British naval commander on the ship HMS Terpsichore, served under Lord Nelson, and was killed at the battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife.

Hospital Universitario Nuestra Señora de Candelaria

Hospital Universitario Nuestra Señora de Candelaria or University Hospital of the Nuestra Señora de Candelaria is an advanced hospital in Tenerife (Canary Islands, Spain).

Hugo Rodallega

Rodallega was born in El Carmelo, a village located just outside Cali, and lived in the village with his parents and two elder sisters.

International Tenerife Memorial March 27, 1977

The International Tenerife Memorial March 27, 1977, erected in memory of the 583 victims of the Tenerife airport disaster, is a monument located on the Mesa Mota park on the outskirts of the city of San Cristóbal de La Laguna on the island of Tenerife (Canary Islands, Spain).

Justin Summerton

In 1997, Summerton did paintings and photomontage studies of Tenerife (Canary Islands), Spain, Portugal, and London (live painting at Leicester Square).

Kiepenheuer Institute for Solar Physics

The institute has one solar telescope on the Schauinsland Mountain near Freiburg and, in collaboration with other institutions, uses solar telescopes of the Teide Observatory in Tenerife, Spain.

Lavatera phoenicea

Webb and Berthelot included this plant in the separate, monotypic genus Navaea, named for Alonso de Nava y Grimón, (1757-1832), founder of the botanical garden in Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife (Jardín de Aclimatación de la Orotava).

Manías

During her promotional tour in Spain, Thalía presented the song to the Spanish audience in a stunning live performance at the annual Cadena Dial Awards, that took place in Tenerife on March 13, 2013.

María Simón

She also participated in the Venice Biennale (1972), Biennale of Tapestry in Lausanne, Biennials of Engraving at Ljubljana and in Puerto Rico, the First International Sculpture Street Exhibition in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, and the Basel Fair.

Mediapro

MediaPro is based in Barcelona, with branch offices in Girona, Amsterdam, Budapest, Lisbon, Madeira, Madrid, Miami, Porto, Qatar, Seville and Tenerife.

Menceyato of Güímar

Occupied an area significantly greater than the actual municipality of Güímar, including part of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, El Rosario, Candelaria, Arafo and Fasnia, himself and perhaps a small part of the town of Arico.

Metro Candelaria

It also displays the architecture of Félix Candela, who designed the Candelaria station and also designed many buildings in Mexico, such as the San Lázaro metro station and the famous Palacio de los Deportes which served as a venue during the 1968 Summer Olympics.

Mount Mayabobo

Mount Mayabobo is a cinder cone situated at the base of Mount Banahaw, in Barangay Mayabobo, Candelaria, Quezon.

Neville Ranch Raid

On March 25, 1918, while on garrison duty at Candelaria, Captain Leonard Matlock, 8th Cavalry, received information from someone regarding an imminent attack on Neville Ranch.

Open de Canarias

Turespana Open De Canaria, originally called the Tenerife Open, played between 1989 and 1995

Parmacella tenerifensis

This species is endemic to the area east of San Cristóbal de La Laguna in Tenerife, Canary Islands.

Paulino Rivero

Paulino Rivero Baute (born 11 February 1952; El Sauzal, Tenerife, Spain) is a Spanish politician and teacher.

Plaza de la Patrona de Canarias

This square is considered one of the "main squares" of the island of Tenerife, together with the Plaza de España in Santa Cruz de Tenerife and the Plaza del Cristo de La Laguna in San Cristóbal de La Laguna.

Province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife

This province contains three of Spain's national parks, more than any other province: the Caldera de Taburiente National Park on La Palma, the Garajonay National Park on La Gomera, and the Teide National Park on Tenerife, encompassing Teide, Spain's highest mountain and also an inactive volcano.

Pyramids of Güímar

They are located in the district of Chacona, part of the town of Güímar on the island of Tenerife in the Canary Islands.

In 1990, adventurer and publisher, Thor Heyerdahl, became aware of the "Canarian Pyramids" by reading an article written by Francisco Padrón in the Tenerife newspaper "Diario de Avisos" detailing "real pyramids on the Canaries".

Roman Catholic Marian churches

The new Immaculate Conception Cathedral was built in Manila, Philippines and the Basilica of Our Lady of Candelaria in Tenerife, Spain.

San Juan de la Rambla, Santa Cruz de Tenerife

San Juan de la Rambla (first part Spanish for Saint John) is a municipality in the northern part of the island of Tenerife, one of the Canary Islands, and part of the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife.

Santa Maria hijacking

The ship's mid-Atlantic service was also viewed as rather out of the ordinary: Lisbon to Madeira, to Tenerife, to La Guaira, to Curaçao, to Havana (later San Juan), and lastly Port Everglades.

Sedfrey Candelaria

Candelaria was part of the Negotiating Panel for the Peace Talks with the Communist Party of the Philippines, the New People’s Army and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (CPP/NPA/NDF).

Tenerife speckled lizard

It was discovered in 1996 by biologist Efraín Hernández in the Macizo de Teno in the extreme northwest of Tenerife (Hernández et al. 1997).

Ulrich Schmidl

He also accompanied Juan de Ayolas on his first trip in quest of provisions, and afterward went with Ayolas in his expedition up Paraguay River, and was one of the soldiers that were left with Domingo Irala in charge of the vessels in the port of Candelaria.

Una familia con suerte

Alicia Machado - Candelaria de los Angeles López Fernández vda.

Veldhuyzen van Zanten

Jacob Veldhuyzen van Zanten, KLM pilot involved in the 1977 Tenerife airport disaster


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