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5 unusual facts about Durango, Durango


Diego Archuleta

His family were wealthy ranchers and, as such, they had the economic means to send him to Durango, Mexico where he received his primary and secondary education.

Durango, Mexico

Durango, Durango, capital city of the State of Durango (also known as "Victoria de Durango")

Jerry Hairston, Sr.

He also played three years (from 1978 to 1980) with Durango of the Mexican League.

Piero Taruffi

Taruffi trimmed 15 minutes on the Mexico City-Leon leg and another 21 minutes between Leon and Durango.

Ralph Ambrose O'Neill

O'Neill was born in Durango, Durango, Mexico in 17 December 1896 to an American father and a Mexican mother.


Animas River

The Durango and Silverton Narrow gauge railroad follows the river through the canyon to Durango.

Antonio Sebastián de Toledo, 2nd Marquis of Mancera

In 1670 Chichimecas invaded Durango, and the governor, Francisco González, abandoned its defense.

Bimbo Carmona

Has set the record for most points in a game, with Fuerza Regia, with 49, against Durango (on October 13), LNBP League.

Bryolymnia ensina

It occurs in coniferous forests from south-eastern Arizona (Huachuca Mountains) and south-western New Mexico (Pinos Altos Mountains) southward in the Sierra Madre Occidental to the State of Durango in Mexico.

Carmen Beltrán

The dangers of the Mexican Revolution, combined with her father's political connections, forced the family to flee into the mountains of Durango.

Charles Starrett

The Durango Kid films combined vigorous action sequences – often with sped up camera work and spectacular stunts performed by Jock Mahoney – and western music.

Colorado Hairstreak Butterfly

It is found mainly in Utah, Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico, the Colorado Plateau states, although it can also be found in small portions of Nevada, Wyoming, and Durango, Mexico.

Cornus sericea

stolonifera, Swida sericea, (red osier dogwood) is a species of flowering plant in the family Cornaceae, native throughout northern and western North America from Alaska east to Newfoundland, south to Durango and Nuevo León in the west, and Illinois and Virginia in the east.

Dasylirion durangense

Dasylirion durangense, common name "sotol," is a perennial plant in the family Asparagaceae, native to Durango, Chihuahua and Sonora, Mexico.

David de Paula Gallardo

David de Paula Gallardo (born 3 May 1984 in Durango, Biscay) is a Spanish footballer who plays for Austria Wien in Austria, as a midfielder.

Dodge Durango

In October 2013, Chrysler Group LLC teamed up with Paramount Pictures to help promote the film Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues with a series of Durango commercials featuring Will Ferrell as Ron Burgundy.

Dragón Rojo, Jr.

He was named the Lagunero area "Rookie of the year" for his work in the local promotion that put on shows in Torreón and Gómez Palacio in Durango.

Durango, Mexico

The state of Durango, one of the 32 component federal entities of the United Mexican States

Eliseo Barrón

Hector Gonzalez Martinez, a Roman Catholic Archbishop in Durango, indicated that "El Chapo" Guzmán had made Durango his home and said Mexican authorities were doing nothing about it.

Euskotren Trena

This development is part of the Durango+ project, which aims to improve the service and frequencies in the Durangaldea region.

Francisco Sarabia International Airport

It handles the national and international air traffic of the Comarca Lagunera, considering Gómez Palacio and Lerdo in the State of Durango.

Granville Brothers Aircraft

Gee Bee Q.E.D. — Pratt & Whitney "Wasp" powered (one built, crashed June 7, 1939, Francisco Sarabia killed, aircraft rebuilt and retired to a museum in Ciudad Lerdo, Durango, Mexico)

Henderson molybdenum mine

The Henderson deposit is located in the Colorado mineral belt, a northeast-southwest alignment of metal deposits that crosses the mountainous part of Colorado from Boulder to Durango.

Howard Terpning

At age 15, he became fascinated with the West and Native Americans when he spent the summer camping and fishing with a cousin near Durango, Colorado.

Itoiz

In 1978, the members of the band Indar Trabes prepare to release an LP for Durango's Basque book and music fair, including songs composed largely by frontman and central figure Juan Carlos Perez.

Jesús de Cárdenas

The Republic of Rio Grande claimed as its territory the areas of Tamaulipas and Coahuila to the north until the Nueces river and Medina respectively, and all the states of Zacatecas, Durango, Chihuahua and Nuevo México, among those present were appointed official representatives of the Republic of the Rio Grande.

KISZ-FM

The station also has a low-power translator, K249DE in Durango, Colorado, and a booster, KISZ-FM1 in Farmington, New Mexico.

Long Wharf Theatre

More than 30 Long Wharf productions have been transferred to Broadway or Off-Broadway, including Durango, Wit, (winner of a Pulitzer Prize), The Shadow Box (Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award/Best Play winner), Hughie, American Buffalo, Requiem for a Heavyweight, Quartermaine's Terms (Obie Award winner for best play), The Gin Game (Pulitzer Prize winner), The Changing Room, The Contractor and Streamers.

Lorenzo de Monteclaro

He was born with the name of Lorenzo Hernández en Cuencamé de Ceniceros, Durango, and sang for the first time on radio in the late 1950s on a Sunday talent contest called "Aficionados de los Ejidos" on XEDN (Torreón, Coahuila).

Los Dug Dug's

In 1964 Xippos Rock began a road trip from Durango to Tijuana and halfway through the trip,in the city of Ciudad Obregón, Sonora, the name was changed to Los Dug Dug's, an abbreviation of the band's native city and state.

Mountain peaks of Mexico

Of these 30 highest major summits, 4 are located in Puebla, 4 in Oaxaca, 4 in Coahuila, 3 in México, 3 in Jalisco, 3 in Nuevo León, 2 in Chiapas, 2 in Michoacán, 2 in Querétaro, and one each in Distrito Federal, Morelos, Tlaxcala, Veracruz, Guerrero, Guanajuato, Durango, Baja California, and Aguascalientes.

Olekina Ledama

Ledama studied political sciences and English communication at the University of Massachusetts Boston and Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado.

Pat Conway

Among the episodes are "Gunslinger from Galeville" (the series premiere), "A Bullet for an Editor", "Guns of Silver", "Postmarked for Death", "The Epitaph", "Geronimo", "The Outcasts" (about a religious sect), "The Lady Gambler", "The Black Marshal from Deadwood", and "Doc Holliday in Durango".

Plaza Zabala

The street surrounding the square is named as Ring Durango, in honor of the town Vizcaya of Durango, where Zabala was born.

Pointe Coupee Parish Sheriff's Office

Some Dodge Durango vehicles are also used, as well as a variety of unmarked vehicles.

Pterospoda nigrescens

It occurs at moderate elevations in arid scrub and open woodland habitat, ranging from south-eastern Arizona and the Edwards Plateau of west-central Texas south to at least Durango, Mexico.

René Elizondo, Jr.

Born in Durango, Mexico, Elizondo and Jackson met in the mid-1980s and married secretly in 1991.

Santiago Durango

In 1990, Durango teamed up with Pierre Kezdy of Naked Raygun on bass to record and release a second Arsenal EP entitled Factory Smog Is A Sign Of Progress.

Solar eclipse of April 8, 2024

With a magnitude of 1.0566, its longest duration of totality will be of four minutes and 28 seconds near the town of Nazas, Durango, Mexico, and the nearby city of Torreón, Coahuila.

Sorginak

Durango was the center of a medieval Beguine heresy that ended with 13 people burnt at the stake.

St. Mary's Railroad

The Durango Paper Company closed its doors in 2002 after two industrial accidents at the plant resulted in nearly $200,000 in fines from OSHA.

The House of the Scorpion

As evidenced by conditions in one of the major cities, San Luis, parts of Aztlán are very affluent, while others, such as Durango, the region that El Patrón and Celia hail from, languish in poverty.

Tim Gould

After a string of World Cup victories and podium placings through the early 1990s his strength was climbing and in this era he was the best in the world, becoming the Official World Mountain Bike Hill Climb Champion in 1990 at Durango.

Vicente de Azcuénaga

From Durango, Vizcaya, Spain, he arrived in Buenos Aires in his early forties and was devoted to commercial activities.

Zaldibar

Zaldibar has a station of the narrow-gauge regional railways, Euskotren, which connects the town with other major municipalities and cities like Bilbao, Amorebieta-Etxano, Durango, Eibar, Donostia and Hendaye.


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