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4 unusual facts about Manta


Argenis Moreira

Erwin Argenis Moreira Alcivar (born June 15, 1987 in Manta) is an Ecuadorian football defender who plays for Deportivo Cuenca.

Carlos Garcés

Carlos Jhon Garcés Acosta (born March 1, 1990 in Manta) is an Ecuadorian footballer who plays as a forward for Deportivo Quito.

Efrén Mera

Mera began his professional career in his hometown of Manta playing for Green Cross's youth division.

VAW-77

VAW-77 continues to operate out of Howard AFB, Panama; Patrick AFB, Florida; Comalapa Air Force Base, El Salvador; Coast Guard Air Station Borinquen, Aguadilla, Puerto Rico; Manta Air Force Base located at the Eloy Alfaro International Airport in Manta, Ecuador; and Hato International Airport, Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles.


Alexandru Manta

Manta has been playing in France for several years, playing for at Terrasson (2001/2002), Stade Aurillacois (2002/2003), Bègles-Bordeaux (2003/2004), Section Paloise (2004/2005 to 2005/2006), Castres Olympique (2006/2007) and CA Brive.

Bat Country

The song's main influence comes from Hunter S. Thompson's 1971 novel Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and the title itself also comes from a line from the book in which Raoul Duke, the alter-ego pseudonym of Thompson himself, is on his way to Las Vegas while being affected by various drugs, and thus hallucinates, seeing huge bats and manta rays in the sky.

Giant oceanic manta ray

In the James Bond movie “Licence to Kill” a manta ray over-cover is used to disguise Bond as a fish when he is infiltrating Krest’s ship.

The Nickelodeon animated series SpongeBob SquarePants includes an antagonist/secondary character named Man-Ray, a super villain based on the manta ray who acts as a nemesis to the series' superheroes Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy.

Khalil Ahmed

He composed music for film Khamosh Raho (1964) and recorded a ghazal in Ahmed Rushdi's voice Mei nahi manta (lyrics Habib Jalib) which gained him country-wide fame.

Liguiqui

Ligüiqui is a neighborhood of San Lorenzo rural parish in Manta, Manabí, Ecuador, with no more than 100 people, located practically in the middle of the forest in the Ruta del Sol 30 km south of Manta, one of the modern cities with the major port along the central Ecuadorian coast in the province of Manabi, economically, the third most important city of Ecuador.

Manta Force

The purpose of the comic-strips was to provide a back-story to Manta Force universe and help to promote the Bluebird toy range.

Petter Villegas

Villegas left MLS afterwards, going back to his native Ecuador to play for Aucas, Barcelona SC, Manta and Deportivo Cuenca.

The Sea Bat

The Sea Fiend (1936) another feature film portraying manta rays as monsters


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