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unusual facts about Chaparral, Tolima



Arab diaspora in Colombia

They later expanded to other cities and by 1945 there were Arab Middle Easterners moving inland like Ocaña, Cúcuta, Barrancabermeja, Ibagué, Girardot, Honda, Tunja, Villavicencio, Pereira, Soatá, Neiva, Buga, Chaparral and Chinácota.

California Floristic Province

In Baja California, the province includes the forest and chaparral belts of the Sierra Juarez and the Sierra San Pedro Martir (but excluding their desert slopes to the east), coastal areas south to about El Rosario, and Guadalupe Island.

Cansema

Common ingredients of black salves include zinc chloride and chaparral, also known as creosote bush (Latin name Larrea tridentata).

Chaparral

Prunus fasciculata, Desert almond, (commonly infested with tent caterpillars of Malacosoma spp.)

Chaparral Cars

In the 2009 Monterey Sports Car Championships, Gil de Ferran painted his Acura ARX-02a to resemble a Chaparral in tribute to Jim Hall, for whose team de Ferran drove in his first two seasons in CART, and also to commemorate de Ferran's final professional race.

Chaparral Prairie State Nature Preserve

Chaparral Prairie supports the most extensive population of rattlesnake-master in the state.

Chaparral, Calgary

Chaparral was established in 1995, and named for the mediterranean climate biome.

Charles Deutsch

He used the ground-effect on race cars 10 years before Chaparral and his #53 entry from "Autombiles Deutsch et Bonnet" won the "Index of Performance" trophy at the 1961 24 Hours of Le Mans.

Dallas Chaparrals

The team's original owners, unable to agree on a name for the franchise during an early organizational meeting at the Sheraton Dallas Hotel, named it for the Chaparral Club in which they were meeting.

Deportes Tolima

Tolima ended first in the league, and played the semifinals against Nacional, Pasto, and Chico.

Deportes Tolima played amazing both home and away games which included victories against Envigado 7–3, Nacional 5–1, and Millonarios 3–0.

Desolation Wilderness

The sparse woodlands of widely scattered western junipers and lodgepole pines are interrupted by patches of montaine chaparral species such as Pinemat Manzanita, Huckleberry Oak, and Mountain Pride Penstemon clinging to the expanses of barren rock.

Dukecynus

Dukecynus was discovered in the strata of La Venta in the department of Huila and Tolima in Colombia, where the fossil remains were found: the lower jaw and upper jaw with teeth (holotype specimen IGM 251149), more some referred molar teeth.

Ernesto Cortissoz International Airport

On June 8, 1924 while traveling in the Junkers F.13 "Tolima" together with other executives of the company, he died as a result of one of the first plane crashes in the country.

Geography of Southern California

Elevations range from 500 ft to 11,500 ft (150 m to 3,500 m) and vegetation in these ranges varies from coastal sage scrub to chaparral, and from oak woodland to conifer forest.

Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff

Working in the Tolima region inhabited by Amerindians and the renowned indigenous leader Quintin Lame, they also published a study indicating the indigenous culture of the local populations and also indicated the blood type variations among the indigenous groups of the Pijao in the Department of Tolima as further proof of their Amerindian identity as these tribes were arguing over rights to their ancestral territories.

Henry Rojas

Henry Andres Rojas Delgado (born July 27, 1987 in Ibagué, Tolima) is a football striker from Colombia that plays for Deportes Tolima.

Jay Schlueter

Following his playing career, Schlueter became a dedicated coach and supporter of all youth and high school sports in Scottsdale, Arizona, and Chaparral, New Mexico.

Mariquita

Mariquita, Tolima, a municipality in the Tolima department of Colombia.

Mariquita Airport, an airport serving Mariquita, a municipality of the Tolima Department in Colombia.

Mark Slade

In 1966, at the age of twenty-seven, he obtained one of his most memorable parts, as Billy Blue Cannon, the blond-haired, blue-eyed son of the ranch patriarch, John Cannon (Leif Erickson) on The High Chaparral, set in the Arizona Territory.

Martin Pousson

His stories, essays, and poems have appeared in Epoch, StoryQuarterly, The Rattling Wall, Parnassus, ISLE: Oxford Journals, Icon, Chaparral, Verse Daily, Intersection, Love, Bourbon Street, The Louisiana Review, New Orleans Review, and Cimarron Review.

Movimiento Armado Quintin Lame

Thanks to an organization created years earlier by the indigenous leader Manuel Quintín Lame (1880–1967), the group had the support of many indigenous communities in the region of the Valle del Cauca, Huila, Tolima, and parts of the departments of Meta and Caquetá Department.

Risaralda Department

Risaralda department with an area of 365,300 ha, is located in the central sector of the central Andean region west of the country between two major poles of economic development (department of Antioquia in northern and southern Cauca Valley, extending between the central and western Cordillera), which slopes down toward the Río Cauca, also borders the departments of Caldas in the north-east, east Tolima, Quindio Chocó south and west.

Santa Cruz Mountains

At higher elevations and on sunny south slopes a more drought-resistant chaparral vegetation dominates: manzanita, California scrub oak, chamise, and chaparral pea.

Tolima

Deportes Tolima, a Colombian football (soccer) team in the First Division

Tommy Marth

Tommy attended Chaparral High School in Las Vegas where he met the future bass player for The Killers, Mark Stoermer in jazz band.

Trans-Am Series

In 1970, all of the American pony car manufacturers were represented with a factory team and top driving talent: Chevrolet had the Chaparral Team Camaro Z28 driven by Jim Hall, Ed Leslie, and Vic Elford.


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