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unusual facts about Concepción, Tucumán


Dario Alejandro Gasco

Dario Alejandro Gasco (born January 20, 1987 in Concepción, Tucumán) is an Argentine professional mountain biker.


1986 South American Games

The III South American Games (Spanish: Juegos Sudamericanos; Portuguese: Jogos Sul-Americanos) were a multi-sport event held in 1986 in Santiago, Chile, with some events in Concepción and Viña del Mar.

Albie Casiño

Suspects were Frank Magalona, son of the late Master Rapper Francis Magalona, Carlos Concepcion, Neil Arce and Jeck-Jeck Lacson, son of politician Ping Lacson.

Amambay Department

Pedro Juan Caballero, the capital of the department, is still known by its old name, Punta Porá, used by the traveling merchants that transported yerba from Mato Grosso to Concepción.

Ana Gloria Moya

Born in Tucuman, Moya works as a lawyer in the northwestern province of Salta.

Angel Kreiman Brill

In 1995, Kreiman returned to Chile to the southern city of Concepción, and in 2011 moved to Jerusalem.

Arawak peoples

Scholars believe that the first tribe encountered by Christopher Columbus were Lucayan-Arawak Indians, who lived on the island he called Santa María de la Concepción (known as Mamana by the Lucayan and now called Rum Cay, in the Bahamas).

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.

Arroyo Concepción

On the southeastern outskirts of Arroyo Concepción is the border crossing, which links Puerto Suárez and Puerto Quijarro with the city of Corumbá on the Brazilian side.

Arturo Sanhueza

Born in Concepción, Bío-Bío Region, Sanhueza started his career at hometown club Fernández Vial before moving to Everton, where he would spend an entire season in the team of Viña del Mar.

Baltasar de la Cueva, Count of Castellar

He spoke perfect Quichúa and had been accepted as a prince by the Andean tribes of Tucumán (Argentina).

Battle of La Concepción

Concepcion is one of Peru's Heroic Cities and on the day of the Peruvian victory, in its honor a national youth Marching band competition is held here.

Battle of Marihueñu

After the defeat at the Battle of Tucapel, the Spanish had hurriedly reorganized their forces, reinforcing fort La Imperial for its defense and abandoning Confines and Arauco in order to strengthen Concepción.

Bulan, Sorsogon

The St. Louise De Marillac School (Formerly Colegio de la Inmaculada Concepcion) a Catholic school run by the Daughters of Charity religious congregation, Saint Bonaventure Academy of Butag, the Southern Luzon Institute-Kenerino Ramirez Asuncion Memorial School (SLI-KRAMS) were the oldest school in Bulan, Solis Institute of Technology, and A.G. Villaroya Technological Foundation Institute.

Calchaquí Valleys

Among the most visited tourist attractions of the valley are Tafí del Valle, Cafayate, Molinos, San Carlos, Santa María and Cachi at the western end of the valley, as well as the Los Cardones National Park, and the Los Sosa Provincial Park in Tucumán.

Club Atlético Fénix

In 1963 the team promoted by the first time, and built its current headquarters in the Concepción Arenal street of Chacarita neighborhood.

Concepción del Uruguay

The Uruguay Department produces 47% of the nation's poultry, and Concepción del Uruguay together with Gualeguay and Colón make up 85% of Argentine chicken exports.

Concepcion, Iloilo

There is one institution of higher learning in the municipality, Concepcion Polytechnic College, which offers bachelor's degrees in fisheries and agriculture, as well as a masters in public administration.

Conquest of Chile

These battles allowed to Valdiva to build cities on Indian territories such as Concepcion in 1550, La Imperial, Valdivia in 1552, Villarrica in 1552 and Los Confines in 1553.

Deportivo Nueva Concepción

Club Social y Deportivo Nueva Concepción, is a Guatemalan football club based in Nueva Concepción, Escuintla Department.

El Sur

El Sur is owned by El Sur S.A., which manages two dailies in Concepción: El Sur and Crónica.

Eligio Echagüe

Eligio Silvestre Echagüe Delgado (born 31 December 1938 in Concepción, Paraguay) is a former football defender; most commonly playing in the left-back position.

Emilio Martínez

Emilio Damián Martínez (born 10 April 1981 in Concepción) is a Paraguayan footballer.

Fort San Pedro

Plans and estimates for the restoration of the fort were completed by Architect Leonardo Concepcion, who had completed his MA in Restoration in Madrid.

Francisco Ruiz Lozano

Over his lifetime, he pursued mercantile affairs nearly everywhere in Spanish America — Panama, Cartagena de Indias, Acapulco, Valparaiso, Concepción and Talcahuano.

Francisco Velazquez

As a senior, he played in his hometown for Social San Juan, Deportivo Union Estudiantil, Concepción Patín Club and Sindicato Empleados de Comercio, in Angola for Primeiro de Agosto, in Italy for Follonica, in Spain for Voltregà and FC Barcelona, in Portugal for Benfica.

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.

Gian Barbarona

My Destiny Katharine McPhee (with Charice Pempengco and Sam Concepcion on Gawad Geny Lopez Awards)

Ismael Morandini

It was mid 2009, after the death of Sebastian Mancilla Olivares decides to write a new version of the play in which he had participated in only eighteen to be released in late 2010, but the middle of that year, Ismael had a car crash between Tucumán Catamarca, which ended his life, after an agonizing week.

José Félix Aldao

After the capture of Paz, General Lamadrid took him in his retreat to Tucumán, and then deported him to Tarija in Bolivia, shortly before his defeat at the Battle of La Ciudadela.

José Ignacio Cienfuegos

He was elected Senator for Concepción on 1831, and again became President of the Conservative Senate of Chile between 1831 and 1834.

José María Núñez Piossek

José María Núñez Piossek (born 6 December 1976 in Tucumán) is an Argentine rugby union footballer, currently playing for Scottish club Glasgow Warriors in the Magners League.

José María Urrutia Manzano

He was elected alternate deputy for Concepción in 1831, but served instead as Senator for Biobío and Arauco from 1831 to 1846, as member of the Conservative Party.

KC Concepcion

KC Concepcion (born Maria Kristina Cassandra Cuneta Concepcion on April 7, 1985) is an actress and singer from the Philippines who is currently a National Ambassador Against Hunger of the UN's World Food Programme.

Legarda Street

It crosses through the eastern section of the University Belt area in a generally east-west orientation between the junction with Lacson Avenue in Sampaloc and the intersection with Nepomuceno Street and Concepcion Aguila Street in Quiapo.

It intersects with Recto AvenueMendiola Street and Bilibid Viejo Street–San Rafael Street before terminating at the junction with Concepcion Aguila Street and Nepomuceno Street (formerly Tanduay Street) near the Basilica of San Sebastian in Quiapo district.

Los Andes Peruvian University

It was 1973 in Junín Region - Concepción with the cooperation of Federal Republic of Germany at that time, where a milk plant was created, that milk plant was called before as "Fongal Centro".

Lota, Chile

The city lies in the southern of the Concepción Province of the Biobío Region, 39 kilometres south of Concepción, and one of the ten cities(communes) that constitute Concepción metropolitan area.

Marta Larraechea

She studied as a child at "Inmaculada Concepción" school in Concepción, Secretaryship and Social Orientation at Instituto Carlos Casanueva.

Mateo Rosas de Oquendo

Notarial documentation shows him as engaged in the conquest of Tucumán, where he is named Accountant of Royal Finances and founds the city of La Rioja.

Maximiliano Asís

César Maximiliano Asís (born on 27 March 1987 in Tucumán, Argentina) is an Argentinian footballer currently playing for FC Inter Turku of the Veikkausliiga.

Nothoclavulina

The fungus was found by Singer in the late autumn of 1949, growing on rotting leaves and humus in subtropical forests dominated by Myrtaceae species, in the northwestern province of Tucumán in Argentina.

Óscar Denis

Oscar Denis Sánchez (born 2 October 1946, in Concepción) is a Paraguayan politician and the current Vice President.

Paraguayan Civil War

Out of eleven army divisions, four joined the rebels-on March 8 the two infantry divisions at Concepcion rebelled, joined by the two Chaco infantry divisions a few days later.

Philippine Constitutional Convention election, 1970

Notable politicians like Aquilino Pimentel, Jr., Napoleon Rama, Jose Concepcion Jr., Margarito Teves, Ramon Mitra, Jr., Richard J. Gordon and others were former CON-CON delegates.

Rosario Norte Station

From Rosario Norte the line continued to the northwest, crossing several provinces of Argentina to reach Tucumán.

Septiembre Musical

Septiembre Musical is an annual international arts festival that takes place in the province of Tucumán, Argentina.

Spanish missions in the Americas

Between 1687 and 1700 several missions were founded in Trinidad, but only four survived as Amerindian villages throughout the eighteenth century - La Anuncíata de Nazaret de Savana Grande (modern Princes Town), Purísima Concepción de María Santísima de Guayri (modern San Fernando), Santa Ana de Savaneta (modern Savonetta), Nuestra Señora de Montserrate (probably modern Mayo).

St. Augustine Parish Church of Baliuag

The 5 other nearby Baliuag churches which bound the Parokya are: the Immaculate Conception Quiasi Parish (Concepcion), the Nuestra Sra delas Flores Parish (Virgen delas Flores), the Our Lady of Most Holy Rosary Parish Church (Makinabang), the Holy Family Parish (Tangos) and the Our Lady of Mt. Carmel (Sabang).

Vicente Botín

He made a lot of reports and documentaries about the argentinian crisis caused by the fall of the President Fernando de la Rúa, the deaths caused by starvation of the childrem of Tucumán; and many others about the trial against the dictator Augusto Pinochet, the problems in Bolivia related to the coca crops; the new Brazil president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva...


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