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7 unusual facts about Mérida, Yucatán


Carl Johan Calleman

In 1998 he was invited to be one of the main speakers at a conference about the Mayan calendar in Mérida, Yucatán.

Elena Tonetta

She won the second place in the final of the Junior World Cup, at Mérida (Mexico) in 2006.

José Ignacio de Cavero y Cárdenas

Born on 29 June 1757 in Mérida, Yucatán then part of the Viceroyalty of New Spain, his parents were Diego Cavero Castro and Juana de Díaz Cárdenas.

Juan Coronel

Juan Coronel (born 1569, in Spain; died 1651, at Mérida, Mexico) was a Spanish Franciscan missionary.

Mario Menéndez Rodríguez

Mario Renato Menéndez Rodríguez (b. 1937 in Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico) is the director-general of Por Esto!, one of the largest daily newspaper in Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico.

Ricardo Dájer Nahum

Ricardo Dájer Nahum (born February 19, 1955 in Mérida, Yucatán) is a Mexican politician of Lebanese origin affiliated to the Institutional Revolutionary Party.

In 1995 ran for and lost the election for the municipal president of Mérida to Patricio Patrón Laviada, current governor of the state.


1958 Atlantic hurricane season

On June 14, a tropical depression formed about halfway between the Yucatán Peninsula and Tamaulipas.

Agave fourcroydes

The first to document the plant and its usefulness for ropes and other naval utensils was José María Lanz, a Mexican-born engineer in service of the Spanish Navy, who studied henequen in Yucatán in 1783.

Albinegros de Orizaba

After having a bad year in the Primera A The owner sales the club and is relocated in Yucatán where it played under the name of Lagartos de Tabasco remaining the only affiliate second division team which remains as the city's club.

Alexei Shirov

Shirov is the winner of numerous international tournaments: Biel 1991, Madrid 1997 (shared first place with Veselin Topalov), Ter Apel 1997, Monte Carlo 1998, Mérida 2000, two time winner of the Paul Keres Memorial Tournament in Tallinn, with victories in 2004 and 2005 just to name a few.

Allen Lambert

William Thorsell, CEO of the Royal Ontario Museum, wrote in a tribute to Allen Lambert: "For those who build, it is not a question of whether a legacy remains, but what its quality is. In Athens, in the Yucatan, in Paris, architecture still speaks eloquently centuries after so much else of value is gone. In 1967, a banker insisted that Toronto be remembered with respect."

Ancient Roman architecture

The same concepts produced numerous bridges, some of which are still in daily use, for example the Puente Romano at Mérida in Spain, and the Pont Julian and the bridge at Vaison-la-Romaine, both in Provence, France.

Borislav Stevanović

Born in Titova Mitrovica, Stevanović played club football in Yugoslavia, Spain and Romania for Radnički Niš, Mérida, Rad, Zemun, Universitatea Craiova and BASK.

Claudius, Duke of Lusitania

In 587, after a count named Witteric had exposed the plot of Sunna, the Arian bishop of Mérida, to place the Visigoth Segga on the throne and probably to also kill the Catholic Méridan bishop Masona, Claudius was sent to put down the revolt.

Comayagua

Comayagua was founded with the name Santa María de la Nueva Valladolid by Conquistador Alonso de Cáceres under orders from Francisco de Montejo, Governor of Yucatán on December 8, 1537.

Copán

The outer doorway is framed by the giant mask of a deity, and has stylistic similarities with the Chenes regional style of distant Yucatán.

Curve-winged Sabrewing

curvipennis formerly included the Wedge-tailed Sabrewing (C. pampa) of the Yucatán and the Long-tailed Sabrewing (C. excellens) of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec under the English name Wedge-tailed Sabrewing.

Dewdrops in the Garden

The album drew inspiration from Lady Kier's travels to the Hopi ruins in the Painted Desert and pyramids in the Yucatan and Dmitri's travels to the Grand Canyon and Joshua Tree.

Diario de Yucatán

Diario de Yucatán is a major, regional Mexican daily newspaper headquartered in Mérida, Yucatán.

Diego López de Cogolludo

A native of Alcalá de Henares in Spain, he took the habit of St. Francis at the convent of San Diego, on March 31, 1629, and emigrated to Yucatán, where he became successively lector in theology, guardian, and finally provincial of his order.

Drymaeus serperastrus

The distribution of Drymaeus serperastrus includes the following states of Mexico: Campeche, Quintana Roo, Yucatán, Veracruz, Hidalgo and Tamaulipas.

Flores, El Petén

The Itza left the Yucatán region in the 13th century and built the city later known as Tayasal as their capital.

Francisco Arias Cárdenas

Born at San Cristóbal in Táchira, Arias graduated from the Venezuelan Academy of Military Sciences in Caracas, the Universidad de Los Andes in Mérida, and the Pontifical Xavierian University in Bogotá, Colombia.

Gilberto Keb Baas

Gilberto Keb Baas (born October 21, 1977 in Hunucmá, Yucatán, Mexico) is a Mexican professional boxer in the Light Flyweight division.

Himno de Yucatán

On In mid-2000, after many years of not being heard at an official ceremony, the Anthem of Yucatán was heard in the fifth governance report of then Governor Víctor Cervera Pacheco.

History of Belize

In 1642, and again in 1648, pirates sacked Salamanca de Bacalar, the seat of Spanish government in southern Yucatán.

Juan Antonio de Urbiztondo, Marquis of La Solana

In 1833 he was imprisoned at Mérida due to the accusation that he is supposed-to-be connection to Carlism, but he managed to escape to Portugal

Juan Coronel

Diego López de Cogolludo, Historia de Yucatán (Madrid, 1688; Mérida, 1842);

Leary v. United States

On December 20, 1965, petitioner left New York by automobile, intending a vacation trip to the Mexican state of Yucatán.

Mérida State Symphony Orchestra

The Mérida State Symphony Orchestra (Spanish: Orquesta Sinfónica del Estado Mérida or OSEM) is a symphony orchestra based in the Venezuelan city of Mérida.

Mérida, Mérida

Moreover, the educational development of the city due, for the most part, to its university (ULA) has contributed to the creation of museums, libraries, and centers for scientific research, such as the Center for Astronomy Research (CIDA), located a few kilometers from the city in the mountains near Apartaderos.

Popular drinks include corn liquor, mistella, and "donkey's milk", which is known as "Andean punch."

Operation Cauldron

The video shows a flight coming in and describes the arrival of the biological agents from MRD airport in Merida, Venezuela.

Plaza Monumental Román Eduardo Sandia

Plaza Monumental Román Eduardo Sandia also known as the Plaza de Toros de Mérida is a plaza de toros first class located in the city of Mérida, Venezuela being one of the main infrastructure for cultural and artistic events to large scale of the city after the Estadio Olímpico Metropolitano and the fence locations for the bullfights in the frame of the Feria Internacional del Sol.

Por Esto!

Por Esto! (English: "That's Why!") is a daily Mexican newspaper headquartered in Mérida, Yucatán.

Province of Badajoz

After Badajoz, the capital, the principal towns are Almendralejo, Azuaga, Don Benito, Jerez de los Caballeros, Mérida, Zafra, Montijo and Villanueva de la Serena.

Ratomir Dujković

Afterwards he also coached Universidad de Los Andes from Mérida and later their cross-town rivals Estudiantes.

Richard Páez

Born in Mérida, Páez played club football for Estudiantes de Mérida, Portuguesa, Deportivo Táchira and Universidad de Los Andes.

Ricky Concha

In October 2010, Concha beat the veteran Jorge Cordova, the bout was held at the Polifuncional in Kanasin, Yucatán, Mexico.

Robert Redfield

After a series of published field studies from Mexican communities (Tepoztlán in Morelos and Chan Kom in Yucatán), in 1953 he published The Primitive World and its Transformation and in 1956, Peasant Society and Culture.

Rugby union in Venezuela

The most important tournaments are The National Championship (in Caracas), the Walter Bishop tournament (in Mérida) and the Sevens tournament (in Santa Teresa, Aragua state ).

Samuel Kirkland Lothrop

Lothrop is also known for his research on goldwork and other artifacts from Costa Rica, the Veraguas Province of Panama, and the Sacred Cenote at Chichen Itza, Yucatán, Mexico.

Sisal

They were originally shipped from the Spanish colonial port of Sisal in Yucatán (thus the name).

Texan schooner San Antonio

Commodore Moore dispatched her to pick up Francis R. Lubbock, a survivor of President Mirabeau B. Lamar's Santa Fe expedition, who had escaped his captors and made his way to Yucatan.

TiQal

The game acts as an educational game as well in that it tours the Yucatán Peninsula, and between levels, gives short lessons about Mayan culture and Mesoamerica.

XHST-TV

Trecevisión is an educational and public television network owned and operated by the government of State of Yucatán in Merida, Yucatán.

Yucatan, Minnesota

Yucatan is an unincorporated community in Yucatan Township, Houston County, Minnesota, United States.


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