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unusual facts about Capital Department, Mendoza



Alfred Métraux

Born in Lausanne, Switzerland, Metraux spent much of his childhood in Argentina where his father was a well known surgeon resident in Mendoza.

Alonso González de Nájera

He arrived in Mendoza in May 1601, afterward moving to the south of Chile, where he remained until 1607.

Andrej Bajuk

They settled in Mendoza, where Bajuk grew up, studied and started a family.

Argentina–Canada relations

In October/November 2005, the II Indigenous Summit of the Americas was held in Buenos Aires and Mendoza, with the assistance of the government of Canada and organizational support from the Assembly of First Nations in Canada.

Argentine real

Other provinces issued coins denominated in reales (silver) and escudos (gold): Córdoba, Entre Ríos, La Rioja, Mendoza, Salta, Santiago del Estero and Tucumán.

Ateneo de Davao University

Emmylou Taliño-Mendoza (B.S. Accounting'96) - former Philippine congresswoman and chairman of the Philippine House of Representatives Committee on Public Information and incumbent governor of North Cotabato.

Beibis Mendoza

Beibis Antonio Mendoza (born 1974-06-20 in Arboletes, Antioquia) is a professional boxer from Colombia.

Buddleja mendozensis

Buddleja mendozensis is an extremely variable species endemic to the xeric and subxeric areas of Argentina, from Jujuy to southern Mendoza and La Pampa, where it grows on rocks at altitudes of 600 – 3,000 m.

Burlesk King

Other films exploring the same theme are Lino Brocka's Macho Dancer (1988) and Brillante Mendoza's Masahista (The Masseur, 2005).

Carlos Washington Lencinas

Carlos Washington Lencinas (November 13, 1888 - November 10, 1929) was an Argentine politician and governor of Mendoza, Argentina.

Ciro y los Persas

The most important performances were in 2010 and made a CD, Orfeo Superdomo in Cordoba, in the theater Angel Bustelo, Mendoza, in San Juan, and Luna Park Stadium of Buenos Aires.

Curved saber of San Martín

Following the withdrawal of San Martín to Europe, after the Guayaquil conference, the weapon remained in the city of Mendoza in the hands of a family friend.

Diego Hurtado de Mendoza y Quiñones

He was the second cardinal in the Mendoza family, studying at the University of Salamanca, one of the two prestigious Spanish universities.

Elizabeth Linington

She was awarded runner-up scrolls for best first mystery novel from the Mystery Writers of America for her 1960 novel, Case Pending, which introduced her most popular series character, LAPD Homicide Lieutenant Luis Mendoza.

Enrique Gaviola

Born and died in Mendoza, Argentina was an Argentine astrophysicist of worldwide renown.

Eufrosina Cruz

Eufrosina Cruz Mendoza (Born: 1 January 1979 in Santa María Quiegolani, Oaxaca) is a Zapotec woman from the state of Oaxaca, Mexico.

False flag

Townley declared that the pamphlets were distributed in Mendoza and Córdoba in relation with false flag bombings perpetrated by SIDE agents, which had as their aim to accredit the existence of the fake Grupo Rojo.

Franco Hita

Franco Martin Hita González (born on October 26, 1978 in Mendoza) is an Argentine footballer that currently plays for Chiangrai United F.C. in the Thai Premier League.

Fundación Impulsar

Since its founding in Salta, eight other branches of the Fundación Impulsar have been established throughout the country, in Tartagal, Tucuman, Mendoza, Cordoba, Missiones, San Luis, Puerto San Julian and in Buenos Aires.

Gaspar Domingo de Mendoza

Gaspar Domingo de Mendoza was a Spanish soldier who served as governor of New Mexico from 1739 to 1743.

George Bellew

Born in Dublin, Bellew was the son of Richard Eustace Bellew (son of Edward Bellew, 2nd Baron Bellew, and grandson of Patrick Bellew, 1st Baron Bellew and his Spanish wife, Anna Fermina de Mendoza) and Gwendoline Marie Josephine (née Herbert-Huddleston).

Graciela Mendoza

María Graciela Mendoza Barrios (born March 23, 1963 in Ixtapan del Oro, Estado de México) is a retired female race walker from Mexico.

Gustavo Lillo

Gustavo Alejandro Lillo (born August 8, 1973 in Mendoza) is a retired Argentine professional footballer.

Huambo District

Huambo District, Rodríguez de Mendoza, a district of the province Rodríguez de Mendoza, in Amazonas, Peru

Humberto Mendoza

Mendoza debuted as a professional in 2002 playing for Atlético Bucaramanga.

José Alberto Mendoza Posas

José Alberto Mendoza Posas (born 21 July 1989 in Olanchito, Yoro, Honduras) is a Honduran footballer who play as goalkeeper for Marathón in the Honduran national league.

Juan Agustín Maza University

The Juan Agustín Maza University is a private university located in Las Cañas district, Guaymallén department in Mendoza, Argentina.

Kids' Choice Awards Argentina

Its first edition was held on October 11, 2011 at the Mendoza Mavinas Argentinas Stadium.

Lichtrouten Luedenscheid

Participating artists are Juergen Albrecht, Refik Anadol, Atsara, Cuppetelli and Mendoza, Christoph Girardet, Hartung and Trenz, Dieter Kiessling, Vollrad Kutscher, Justin Lui, Jakob Mattner, László Moholy-Nagy, Klaus Obermaier, Otto Piene, Rainer Plum, Davide Quayola, Diana Ramaekers, Nicolas Schöffer, Robert Sochacki, Max Sudhues und Amy Youngs.

Luis del Mármol Carvajal

There is a cheap facsimile edition of another contemporary book in which he polemized with the author, albeit it was no printed at the time of the morisco´s war in the Alpujarra by Diego Hurtado de Mendoza: GUERRA DE GRANADA (FACSIMIL, edition of 1842), de HURTADO DE MENDOZA, DIEGO , 15.0x21.0 cm , 215 pages , softcover, ISBN 978-84-9761-157-2

Luisa Carvajal y Mendoza

Carvajal y Mendoza's legacy in Spain was evidenced during the 1990s, when Spain's airline, Iberia, named an Airbus A340 jet airliner after her.

Malbec

Argentina’s most highly rated Malbec wines originate from Mendoza’s high altitude wine regions of Luján de Cuyo and the Uco Valley.

María Beatriz Nofal

María Beatriz Nofal is an Argentine economist and civil servant from Mendoza.

María Perceval

Perceval was born in Mendoza, Argentina, to Julio Perceval, a musician and founder of the music department of the National University of Cuyo (UNCuyo), and Alejandrina Suárez, the first female organist in Argentina.

Michael H. Evans

With Riili, Evans raised money from friends and family, purchased 900 acres of land in the Uco Valley, and created The Vines of Mendoza’s private vineyard estates.

Minnie Mendoza

Cristobal Rigoberto Mendoza Carreras (born November 16, 1933), better known as Minnie Mendoza, is a former Major League Baseball infielder and coach who played for the Minnesota Twins during the 1970 MLB season.

Panoptica

Roberto A. Mendoza , known as Panoptica, has been one of the figures in the Mexican electronic scene since the late 80s, founding bands like electro pos-industrial outfit Artefakto and in the late 90’s being part of the Tijuana based norteña-meets-techno Nortec Collective.

Richard Nelson Bolles

He lives in the East Bay of the San Francisco Bay Area and was married in 2004 to the former Marciana Garcia Mendoza Navarrete, who is from Cavite in the Philippines.

Roberto Zaldívar

He practices medicine out of his own Instituto Zaldivar, located in the Argentine city of Mendoza.

Silver Sky Airlines

Silver Sky Airlines (Silver Sky Líneas Aéreas S.A.) was a failed scheduled airline project to be based in Mendoza, Argentina.

Southern Cross Aerobatic Squadron

The squadron is part of the 4th aerial division of the FAA, located in the city of Mendoza.

The Bridge at No Gun Ri

Published in 2001, it was written by Charles J. Hanley, Sang-hun Choe and Martha Mendoza, with researcher Randy Herschaft, the Associated Press (AP) journalists who wrote about the mass refugee killing in news reports that won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for investigative journalism and 10 other major national and international journalism awards.

Tierra Madre

It was directed by Dylan Verrechia, and co-written by Aidee Gonzalez based on her real life, with original music by Nortec Collective and Paco Mendoza.

Tom Mendoza

Mendoza has served in an advisory capacity on the board of directors of NetScreen (acquired by Juniper Networks), Rhapsody Networks (acquired by Brocade Communications Systems), and formerly served on the board of Infoblox.

Vanessa Mendoza

Despite suspicion that she had won the contest so that rumors about racism in it would be eradicated, Mendoza became popular among Colombians, who gave her the nickname "Black Barbie".


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