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3 unusual facts about Haro


CV Haro

Club Voleibol Haro, also known as Haro Rioja Voley is a Spanish volleyball club from Haro in La Rioja.

Haro, La Rioja

Alfonso VI of León and Castile entrusted the tenencia to Diego López I de Haro after the death of count García Ordóñez and the first of the lords of Biscay to attach the name of this town to his patronymic was Diego's son, Lope Díaz I de Haro.

José Luis López de Silanes

José Luis López de Silanes1 (Haro, 1946), Spanish businessman, holds a degree in industrial engineering from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and followed the Management Development Programme at the IESE business school.


Belén Gache

In 1995, she created the group and website Fin del Mundo (End of the World), along with Gustavo Romano, Carlos Trilnick and Jorge Haro in Buenos Aires where she put online her first interactive poems.

Bob Haro

In 1978, Haro teamed up with R. L. Osborn to form the very first freestyle BMX team, which made its debut at ABA's Winternationals in Chandler, AZ.

Diego López V de Haro

Finally, internal Castilian players such as Diego López V de Haro, Nuño González de Lara, and Juan Núñez II de Lara, amongst others, sowed confusion and anarchy throughout the kingdom.

Dogpatch, San Francisco

After Mexico gained independence from Spain in 1821, the Mexican government granted Potrero Nuevo to Francisco and Ramon de Haro - the 17-year-old twin sons of Don Francisco de Haro, then alcalde (mayor) of Yerba Buena (modern day San Francisco) in 1844.

Francisco de Haro

De Haro Street, in the Potrero Hill neighborhood of San Francisco, is named after him.

George Henry Williams

Through William's efforts the German Emperor finally chose the Haro Strait as the Northwest boundary between the U.S. and Canada; the U.S. received the San Juan Islands.

Guillermo Haro

Other major research projects carried out by Haro included the list of 8746 blue stars in the direction of the north galactic pole published jointly with W. J. Luyten in 1961.

Haro Strait

An alternate theory about the naming was proposed by Edmond S. Meany, who suggested that Haro Strait was named for Alonso Núñez de Haro y Peralta, Archbishop of Mexico from 1772 to 1800, and, for several months during 1787, Viceroy of New Spain.

Lordship of Biscay

The Lordship of Biscay was in the hands of the Haro family until 1370, when it was inherited, by his maternal side, by John I of Castile, who also inherited by his father's side the Kingdom of Castile.

Los Haro

Los Haro was first settled by Spanish immigrants over 400 years ago, around the same time that the first English settlements were getting started in North America.

Manuel Lozano Garrido

In December 2009 Pope Benedict XVI authorised the recognition of a miracle (attributed to Manuel's intercession) in the cure of two-year-old Rogelio de Haro Sagra in 1972; the child had suffered from multiple organ failure due to Gram-negative sepsis.

María Díaz de Haro

María II Díaz de Haro (1270-1342), Lady of Biscay, daughter of Lope Díaz III de Haro, wife of John of Castile

Tennis at the 2011 Island Games – Women's Doubles


Taylor and Whitwell lost in the final 6–7(5–7), 6–2, 4–10 against Amanda Carreras and Lindsay De Haro-Sene.

Teresa de Haro

Teresa Díaz II de Haro (born before 1254), daughter of Diego López III de Haro, wife of Juan Núñez I de Lara, mother of Juan Núñez II de Lara, amongst others.


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