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unusual facts about Cerro


Enrique Jorrín

At an early age, his family moved to the El Cerro neighborhood of Havana, where Jorrín was to live for the rest of his life.


1995 Zapatista Crisis

Javier Elorriaga got captured on February 9, 1995, in a military garrison at Gabina Velázquez in Las Margaritas town and later taken to the Cerro Hueco prison in Tuxtla Gutiérrez Chiapas.

2012 Paraguayan Primera División season

The Campeonato de Clausura, also the Copa TIGO-Visión Banco for sponsorship reasons, was the 107º official championship of the Primera División, called "Centenario Club Cerro Porteñi, and was the second championship of the 2012 season.

Abaucán

It begins in the north of the Tinogasta Department of Catamarca Province, at the confluence of several rivers created by the melting of snow and precipitation in the high Andean peaks, such as the volcano Nevado Incahuasi (6,638 meters), Cerro El Muerto (6,488 metres) and Cerro Negro of Laguna Verde (5,764 metres), which dominates in addition the basin of Salina of Laguna Verde.

Allende, Nuevo León

The 'Parroquia de San Pedro Apóstol' (Parish of St. Peter Apostle), which is a modern building on a smaller scale replica of St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, the Museum of Anthropology, History and Culture House in the Old Temple, the shrine of Our Lady of Light at Rancho El Cerro, the Hacienda del provisor, the collection gallery of Bernardo Flores Salazar and the municipal palace.

Antofagasta

The urban area of Antofagasta begins abruptly, breaking the monotony of the desert and is located in the coastal plains, south of the “Peninsula of Mejillones” and north of “Cerro Coloso”.

Apoquindo

This Apu was Cerro El Plomo and were harvested Apoquindo the best flowers for worship, as well from which caravans departed Apoquindo were bound to Cerro El Plomo for the Capac Cocha.

Casale Corte Cerro

The municipality of Casale Corte Cerro contains the frazioni (subdivisions, mainly villages and hamlets) Arzo, Cafferonio, Cassinone, Cereda, Crebbia, Crottofantone, Gabbio, Montebuglio, Motto, Pramore, Ramate, Ricciano, Sant'Anna, and Tanchello.

Cerro de los Batallones

Cerro de los Batallones (Hill of the Battalions) is a hill at Torrejón de Velasco, Madrid, Spain where a number of fossil sites from the Upper Miocene (MN10) have been found.

Cerro de Pasco

Gray Brechin notes that the mines of Cerro de Pasco were a chief source of wealth for William Randolph Hearst and his family.

Cerro Gordo Mines

The author Remi Nadeau, is a descendent of the family involved with the transport of ingots from Cerro Gordo across Owens Lake and by mule train to Los Angeles.

Cerro Miramundo

Cerro Miramundo, also known as Montaña de la Soledad, is a hill covered with dry shrubland located a few kilometers south of the city of Zacapa in Guatemala.

Cerro Porteño

At the time of Cerro's foundation the situation in Paraguay was tense with instability in the government caused by the fervent rivalries between the two leading political parties, the Partido Colorado (Colorado Party) and the Partido Liberal (Liberal Party).

The club owes its name to the battle fought between the forces of Buenos Aires, Argentina (The Porteños) and the Paraguayan army, in the neighbourhood of the Cerro Mbaé (Mbaé Hill) – named after that battle as the Cerro Porteño (Porteño Hill) – on 19 January 1811.

Cerro Sechín

Cerro Sechín (also Sechín de las Estelas) is an archaeological site in Casma Province of Ancash Region in northern Peru.

Chatkalite

Chatkalite has also been located in few other places since then namely Ubertad Mine, Quirulvica Province of Santiago de Chuco, Peru, Mine McCoy, McCoy district, Lander County, Nevada USA and Eugenia Maria Vein, Cerro Shortcut, Catamarca, Argentina.

Dama del Cerro de los Santos

It was found in 1870 in the sanctuary of Cerro de los Santos in Montealegre del Castillo in Albacete province, Spain.

Ferrocarril Central Andino

Formerly a branch split off at Cerro de Pasco and ran into Pachitea Province in Huánuco region.

Fuerte Olimpo

During José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia government it was called Fuerte Olimpo, maybe because of the main Cerro (hill) which was said to resemble Mount Olimpus in ancient Greece.

Hipódromo

Hipódromo, a populated place in Cerro Largo Department, Uruguay

Juan de Tolosa

In what is now Tlaltenango, Indians showed him rocks containing silver and, on September 8, 1546, he found his way to the origin of the rocks on the Cerro de la Bufa at Zacatecas.

Juan Ramón Curbelo

Juan Ramón Curbelo Garis (born 2 May 1979 in Montevideo) is a Uruguayan footballer currently playing for Cerro.

Lady of Elche

While it is a bust, there are proposals that it was part of a seated statue like the Lady of Baza or a standing one like the Gran Dama Oferente from Cerro de los Santos (Montealegre del Castillo, Albacete).

Lagidium ahuacaense

Lagidium ahuacaense is known only from Cerro El Ahuaca, a steep granite inselberg near Cariamanga in Loja Province, southern Ecuador, where it occurs at an altitude of 1950 to 2480 m (6400 to 8140 ft), but only near rocky surfaces.

Lobo Hill

Lobo, also known as El Lobo, Cabezo del Lobo, Cerro del Lobo and Mojón del Lobo, is a 630 m high mountain in the Campo de Belchite comarca, Zaragoza Province, Aragon, Spain, located about 3 km to the south of Belchite and 2 km east of Almonacid de la Cuba.

Lookout City, California

By the end of 1876 Remi Nadeau's Cerro Gordo Freighting Company had hauled 10,000 bars worth some $4,000,000 over the Bullion Trail which was originally built for the ore of the Cerro Gordo Mines.

New Mexico State Road 4

Bandelier National Monument, with hiking and Nordic skiing trails to Frijoles Canyon, Cerro Grande (highest summit in the monument, at 10,199 feet), and the Tsankawi outlier reachable from trailheads at turnouts.

Os Santásticos

the team was seeded in Group 1 alongside Cerro Porteño and Deportivo Municipal, winning every match of their group but one (a 1–1 away tie vs Cerro), with Pelé scoring his first goal in a brace against Cerro.

Owens Lake

The trying three-week (one way) journey improved after the formation of the Cerro Gordo Freighting Company, run by ancestors of regional historian Remi Nadeau who has written of this period.

Paraguarí

In that city on January 13, 1811, the Paraguayans Yegros, Gamarra and Cabañas, with their troops, defeated the Argentine Army, commanded by the General Manuel Belgrano in the battle of Cerro Mbaé or Battle of Paraguarí.

Paraguayan football derby

Cerro flew out of the blocks to take a 2-0 lead, courtesy of goals from Osvaldo Peralta and Juan Manuel Sara.

Phyllocnistis maxberryi

It has been found on altitudes between 1,950 and 3,100 m in the Heredia Province, the Central Volcanic Conservation Area and the Cartago Province, Cerro de la Muerte, Villa Mills, in Cordillera de Talamanca.

Phyllodactylus kofordi

The type locality of this gecko is the Cerro La Vieja in the Peruvian Region of Lambayeque.

Portugués Urbano

It is bounded on the North by Camino de Ponce (Golf Club) Street, Majagua Street, and Arboleda Street, on the South by Idilid Street, Shangai Street, Diez Street, Cinco Street, Pico Dulce Street, and Paseo de la Cruceta, on the West by Novedades Street, the hills east of Ponce Cement and the future western branch of PR-9, and on the East by Río Portugues (roughly), PR-503 (roughly), Cayey Street, Cerro San Tomas Street.

Proud Truth

In 1991, Proud Truth was sent to stand at Corbett Farm near Monkton, Maryland then in 1999 to Haras Cerro Punta in Cerro Punta, Chiriquí, Panama for new owner Fernando Eleta Almarán.

Pucara del Cerro La Muralla

They established in the zone several Tambos and at least one Pucará placed in the top of Cerro La Muralla.

Roberto Nanni

Roberto scored 3 goals in his first 4 shows with Cerro Porteño, saving two defeats.He later became a fan favourite after scoring several goals in the Copa Sudamericana and A goal against rivals Olimpia which gave Cerro the victory.

San Pietro in Cerro

San Pietro in Cerro borders the following municipalities: Caorso, Cortemaggiore, Monticelli d'Ongina, Villanova sull'Arda.

Santa Ana de Coro

The Sierra de San Luis National Park is 30 km to the south, with a number of attractions including birdwatching and nature observation; Cerro Galicia, the highest hill in the district; the Hueque resurgence cave and associated waterfalls; the Acarite river cave; and the 305 m deep Haitón del Guarataro, the deepest limestone cave in Venezuela.

Torre Egger

In January 2008, Rolando Garibotti and Colin Haley made the first complete traverse of the entire massif, climbing Aguja Standhardt, Punta Herron, Torre Egger and Cerro Torre together.

In 1976, John Bragg, Jim Donini and Jay Wilson from the United States climbed Torre Egger by climbing first to the col between the peak and Cerro Torre, the Col of Conquest, and then up the ridge to the peak.

Torres Municipality

Touristic potential: The relief of the city, allows to recognize two differentiated landscapes, one dry and with Xerophile vegetation, and another of tie subhumid characteristics, this, the Carora's historic zone and the Cerro Saroche national park, confer to the municipality a great touristic potential.

Veraguas Province

The Coiba National Park, (with the largest coral reef of the Pacific Coast of America), Cerro Hoya National Park (covers the southwest part of the Azuero Peninsula and the sea that surrounds it), Santa Fe National Park (a forest in the northern region), La Yeguada Forest reserve (with a great artificial lake for the production of electricity)and El Montuoso Forest reserve.

Walter Caprile

Caprile began his career in Uruguay playing for Cerro and played for several seasons in the Primera División Uruguaya, before moving to clubs in Honduras and Guatemala.


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