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2 unusual facts about Manzanillo, Colima


Carolina Morán

Carolina Morán Gordillo (born December 30, 1987 in Manzanillo, Colima) is a Mexican beauty pageant titleholder who placed as the second runner-up in the 57th Miss World pageant on December 1, 2007 in Sanya, China.

Daniel Márquez

Daniel Omar Márquez Palacios (born January 18, 1987 in Manzanillo, Colima, Mexico) is a Mexican professional footballer.


2007 Women's Pan-American Volleyball Cup

The 2007 Women's Pan-American Volleyball Cup was the sixth edition of the annual Women's Volleyball Tournament, played by twelve countries from June 19 to June 30, 2007 in Colima, Mexico.

2008 FIVB World Grand Prix

Cuba, Brazil, Dominican Republic and the United States qualified for the tournament at the 2007 Women's Pan-American Cup in Colima, Mexico.

Alba de Céspedes y Bertini

One of the events, attended by Fidel Castro, was held at in Manzanillo, Cuba, where her grandfather, Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, on October 10, 1868, had made a speech against Spain which started the Ten Years' War.

Alfonso Michel

It was established in 1996 and has a collection of over 1,000 works by artists such as Rafael Coronel, Carlos Mérida, José Luis Cuevas, Sofía Bassi, Alberto Gironella, Federico Cantú, Marcos Huerta and Juan Manuel de la Rosa along with other Colima artists such as Gabriel de la Mora, Rafael Mesina, Gil Garea, Jorge Chávez Carrilo and Gabriel Portillo del Toro.

Andrés Manzanillo

Andrés Manzanillo (born August 1, 1977) is a volleyball player from Venezuela, who won the gold medal with the men's national team at the 2003 Pan American Games in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

Area codes in Mexico by code

This range of area codes is currently reserved for Colima, Jalisco, Michoacán, Nayarit and Zacatecas.

Battle of Acapulco

Two of the ships of their squadron, Victoire and Lucifer, in Manzanillo took four hundred Mexican troops under the command of General Apolonio Montenegro, and on 11 September, landed without opposition at Acapulco.

Battle of Manzanillo

First Battle of Manzanillo, naval engagements during the Spanish American War on June 30, 1898 in and near the harbor of Manzanillo, Cuba involving three American gunboats

Black-throated Magpie-Jay

This species interbreeds with the White-throated Magpie-Jay in Jalisco and Colima, where intermediate birds are common.

Ciudad Guzmán

Prior to the arrival of the European Spanish Conquistadors, this area was the pre-Columbian kingdom of Zapotlán and was at different times under the domain of the nearby kingdoms of Colima and Michoacán.

Colima, Mexico

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

Cuajinicuilapa

Product from the enterprise was shipped through Tecoanapa with destination such as Salina Cruz, Manzanillo and Acapulco.

Forbes Energy

Forbes Energy is currently developing facilities in Manzanillo, in the province of Monte Cristi of the Dominican Republic.

Guillermo Ríos Alcalá

He was born in Chapala, Jalisco to Felipe Ríos and María Guadalupe Alcalá, but moved to the city of Colima in 1957.

Héctor Xavier

He also met Francisco de la Maza who exposed Xavier to pre Hispanic art, especially that of Colima and the frescos and stele of Bonampak.

José Juan Vázquez

Vázquez began playing football professionally at the age of 19 in fourth and third divisions of Mexico with teams such as Atlético San Francisco and Atlético Comonfort in the fourth division, and for Cuervos Negros de Zapotlanejo, América Manzanillo, and finally his home town team Celaya in the third division.

Josías Manzanillo

On December 13, 2007, Manzanillo was one of many athletes mentioned in the detailed Mitchell Report by former Senator George Mitchell.

Leticia Navarro

Bertha Leticia Navarro Ochoa (born November 10, 1953 in Colima, Colima) is a Mexican entrepreneur who served as Secretary of Tourism in the cabinet of President Vicente Fox.

Los Soneritos

Los Soneritos is a group dedicated to Mexican folk music and dance, founded in 2005 in Colima by Omar Alejandro Rojas Ramos.

Luis Barragán House and Studio

During his career, he developed projects in Mexico City, Manzanillo, Guadalajara, Acapulco, La Jolla, CA but his best known work is that on Ciudad Satélite.

Manzanillo, Colima

--and luxurious--> of the city's resorts, having been featured in the movie 10 starring Bo Derek and Dudley Moore.

North American SuperCorridor Coalition

The project includes the largest border crossing in North America – the Ambassador Bridge in Detroit, Michigan and Windsor, Ontario – and one of the largest inland ports, Laredo, Texas and Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, the ports of Manzanillo, Colima and Lázaro Cárdenas, Michoacán.

Pacific crevalle jack

Where these statistics are kept, however, it is apparent that it is one of the most important species in its range, with the species accounting for up to 15% of the total annual catch in Colima, Mexico.

Pedro Páramo

The novel is set in the town of Comala, considered to be Comala in the Mexican state of Colima.

Pijao language

Marshall & Seijas (1973) did not detect significative connections between Pijao and other unclassified languages of the area: Colima, Muzo, Pantágora, and Panche, but these are even more poorly attested than Pijao.

Topos de Tlatelolco

Within Mexico, they have assisted after disasters in Manzanillo, Puebla and Oaxaca.

Yoandri Kindelán

With Leonel Munder he won in the 2008 season in Manzanillo and Guadalajara.


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