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48 unusual facts about Mendoza


Alfred Métraux

Born in Lausanne, Switzerland, Metraux spent much of his childhood in Argentina where his father was a well known surgeon resident in Mendoza.

Alonso González de Nájera

He arrived in Mendoza in May 1601, afterward moving to the south of Chile, where he remained until 1607.

Andrej Bajuk

They settled in Mendoza, where Bajuk grew up, studied and started a family.

He returned to Mendoza, where he taught as a professor at the university.

Argentina–Canada relations

In October/November 2005, the II Indigenous Summit of the Americas was held in Buenos Aires and Mendoza, with the assistance of the government of Canada and organizational support from the Assembly of First Nations in Canada.

Arturo Andrés Roig

Born in Mendoza, he entered the Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, and graduated in 1949 with a degree in Education Sciences (Profesor de Enseñanza Secundaria, Normal y Especial en Filosofía).

Arturo Deliser

Deliser won both the 100 and 200 metres at the 2012 South American Youth Championships in Athletics in Mendoza, Argentina.

Ateneo de Davao University

Emmylou Taliño-Mendoza (B.S. Accounting'96) - former Philippine congresswoman and chairman of the Philippine House of Representatives Committee on Public Information and incumbent governor of North Cotabato.

Bristol M.1

One of these, flown by Lt. Godoy, was used to fly from Santiago to Mendoza, Argentina and back on 12 December 1918, the first flight across the Andes mountain chain.

Carlo Felice Cillario

Born Carlos Felix Cillario in San Rafael, Mendoza, Argentina, he went to Italy in 1923, where he studied the violin and composition at the Bologna Conservatorio.

Carlos Washington Lencinas

Carlos Washington Lencinas (November 13, 1888 - November 10, 1929) was an Argentine politician and governor of Mendoza, Argentina.

Celia Correas de Zapata

Celia Correas de Zapata (born 9 October 1935 in Mendoza, Argentina) is an academic, poet, and author, and a leading scholar of the history of Latin American women writers.

Chang Dai-chien

Due to the political climate of China in 1949, he left the country and resided in various places such as Mendoza, Argentina, São Paulo and Mogi das Cruzes, Brazil, and then to Carmel, California, before finally in 1978 settling in Taipei, Taiwan.

Ciro y los Persas

The most important performances were in 2010 and made a CD, Orfeo Superdomo in Cordoba, in the theater Angel Bustelo, Mendoza, in San Juan, and Luna Park Stadium of Buenos Aires.

Curved saber of San Martín

Following the withdrawal of San Martín to Europe, after the Guayaquil conference, the weapon remained in the city of Mendoza in the hands of a family friend.

Daniel Brizuela

Daniel Eduardo Brizuela (born December 29, 1985 in Las Heras, Mendoza) is a male featherweight boxer from Argentina.

Enrique Gaviola

Born and died in Mendoza, Argentina was an Argentine astrophysicist of worldwide renown.

Eusebio Guiñazú

Eusebio Guiñazú (born 15 January 1982 in Mendoza, Argentina) is an Argentine rugby union player who plays for Bath in the English Premiership.

Evandro Chagas

In 1931 he held the position of Human Pathology Section (in Portuguese: Seção de Patologia Humana) of the Instituto Oswaldo Cruz and, in 1935, represented the institution at the Ninth Meeting of the Argentine Society of Pathology North Regional, held in the city of Mendoza to honor the memory of Carlos Chagas, newly deceased.

False flag

Townley declared that the pamphlets were distributed in Mendoza and Córdoba in relation with false flag bombings perpetrated by SIDE agents, which had as their aim to accredit the existence of the fake Grupo Rojo.

Fidel Roig Matons

Fidel Roig Matons (born Fidel Enric Jaume Roig i Matons, Girona, Catalonia, May 27, 1887 - Mendoza, Argentina, Argentina, May 26, 1977) was a Catalan painter and musician.

Franco Hita

Franco Martin Hita González (born on October 26, 1978 in Mendoza) is an Argentine footballer that currently plays for Chiangrai United F.C. in the Thai Premier League.

Fundación Impulsar

Since its founding in Salta, eight other branches of the Fundación Impulsar have been established throughout the country, in Tartagal, Tucuman, Mendoza, Cordoba, Missiones, San Luis, Puerto San Julian and in Buenos Aires.

Gustavo Lillo

Gustavo Alejandro Lillo (born August 8, 1973 in Mendoza) is a retired Argentine professional footballer.

Juan Martínez de Rozas

He was born at Mendoza (then, still a Chilean dependency) in 1759, the son of Juan Martínez de Soto Rozas and María Prudencia Correa Villegas.

In 1812 Carrera succeeded in securing the banishment of his rival, who was forced to retire to Mendoza, where he died on March 3, 1813.

Juan Ramón Folch de Cardona y Ximenez de Arenós

A palace in Granada, now used as a Faculty of Architecture and former military hospital, is still named "La Casa del Almirante", "the House of the Admiral", on account of Mendoza family members living there in the 17th century.

Julio Le Parc

Julio le Parc is a modern op artist and kinetic artist born in 1928 in Mendoza, Argentina.

Kids' Choice Awards Argentina

Its first edition was held on October 11, 2011 at the Mendoza Mavinas Argentinas Stadium.

Laura I. Catena

She is currently general director of Bodega Catena Zapata and her own Luca Winery in Mendoza, Argentina, as well as a practicing Emergency Medicine physician at University of California San Francisco Medical Center in California and a Fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians.

María Beatriz Nofal

María Beatriz Nofal is an Argentine economist and civil servant from Mendoza.

María Perceval

Perceval was born in Mendoza, Argentina, to Julio Perceval, a musician and founder of the music department of the National University of Cuyo (UNCuyo), and Alejandrina Suárez, the first female organist in Argentina.

Mendoza, Argentina

Seven Years in Tibet directed by French director Jean-Jacques Annaud, was shot in and around Mendoza.

In 2008, TransLink of Vancouver, Canada, sold most of its old trolleybus fleet to Mendoza.

Mendozite

The exact location has been lost, but was described as "San Juan, near Mendoza", and it is the latter city that give the mineral its name.

Pablo Hernán Gómez

Born in Las Heras, Mendoza, Gómez began playing football as a striker in the local Mendoza state league with Huracán de Las Heras at age 17.

Paul Bénichou

After living in the French unoccupied zone, Bénichou could leave in 1942 with his family to Argentina, where he had been offered a teaching position in the university of Mendoza; afterwards, he taught in Buenos Aires, at the Institut Français (co-founded by Roger Caillois).

Pedro del Castillo

On 2 March 1561 Pedro del Castillo founded the city of Mendoza.

Rhodophiala

Rhodophiala rhodolirion (Baker) Traub – distributed Chile to Argentina (Mendoza)

Riccardo Giovanelli

Born in Italy, he spent his childhood years in western Argentina (in Mendoza and Tucuman) but returned with his family to Italy when he was ready to enter university.

Roberto Zaldívar

He practices medicine out of his own Instituto Zaldivar, located in the Argentine city of Mendoza.

Rubén Cano

Born in San Rafael, Mendoza, Argentina to Spanish parents, Cano started his professional career with Buenos Aires-based Club Atlético Atlanta, remaining four years with the club.

Saludos Amigos

Pedro involves the title character, a small airplane from Chile, engaging in his very first flight to pick up air mail from Mendoza, with near disastrous results.

Short-billed Miner

Geositta antarctica migrates as far north as Mendoza during the autumn and winter seasons, but keeps to arid areas, and it is most numerous on heavily grazed grassland on the leeward side of Tierra del Fuego.

Silver Sky Airlines

Silver Sky Airlines (Silver Sky Líneas Aéreas S.A.) was a failed scheduled airline project to be based in Mendoza, Argentina.

Southern Cross Aerobatic Squadron

The squadron is part of the 4th aerial division of the FAA, located in the city of Mendoza.

Villalba de Rioja

In the oldest part (cellar,) was born Traspalacio Don Pedro del Castillo in 1521 who later founded the city of Argentina Mendoza and the 1561.

Vítor Hugo dos Santos

He won the silver medal in the 200 metres at the 2012 South American Youth Championships in Athletics in Mendoza, Argentina.


Argentine real

Other provinces issued coins denominated in reales (silver) and escudos (gold): Córdoba, Entre Ríos, La Rioja, Mendoza, Salta, Santiago del Estero and Tucumán.

Beibis Mendoza

Beibis Antonio Mendoza (born 1974-06-20 in Arboletes, Antioquia) is a professional boxer from Colombia.

Buddleja mendozensis

Buddleja mendozensis is an extremely variable species endemic to the xeric and subxeric areas of Argentina, from Jujuy to southern Mendoza and La Pampa, where it grows on rocks at altitudes of 600 – 3,000 m.

Burlesk King

Other films exploring the same theme are Lino Brocka's Macho Dancer (1988) and Brillante Mendoza's Masahista (The Masseur, 2005).

Diego Hurtado de Mendoza y Quiñones

He was the second cardinal in the Mendoza family, studying at the University of Salamanca, one of the two prestigious Spanish universities.

Elizabeth Linington

She was awarded runner-up scrolls for best first mystery novel from the Mystery Writers of America for her 1960 novel, Case Pending, which introduced her most popular series character, LAPD Homicide Lieutenant Luis Mendoza.

Eufrosina Cruz

Eufrosina Cruz Mendoza (Born: 1 January 1979 in Santa María Quiegolani, Oaxaca) is a Zapotec woman from the state of Oaxaca, Mexico.

Gaspar Domingo de Mendoza

Gaspar Domingo de Mendoza was a Spanish soldier who served as governor of New Mexico from 1739 to 1743.

George Bellew

Born in Dublin, Bellew was the son of Richard Eustace Bellew (son of Edward Bellew, 2nd Baron Bellew, and grandson of Patrick Bellew, 1st Baron Bellew and his Spanish wife, Anna Fermina de Mendoza) and Gwendoline Marie Josephine (née Herbert-Huddleston).

Graciela Mendoza

María Graciela Mendoza Barrios (born March 23, 1963 in Ixtapan del Oro, Estado de México) is a retired female race walker from Mexico.

Huambo District

Huambo District, Rodríguez de Mendoza, a district of the province Rodríguez de Mendoza, in Amazonas, Peru

Humberto Mendoza

Mendoza debuted as a professional in 2002 playing for Atlético Bucaramanga.

José Alberto Mendoza Posas

José Alberto Mendoza Posas (born 21 July 1989 in Olanchito, Yoro, Honduras) is a Honduran footballer who play as goalkeeper for Marathón in the Honduran national league.

Juan Agustín Maza University

The Juan Agustín Maza University is a private university located in Las Cañas district, Guaymallén department in Mendoza, Argentina.

Lichtrouten Luedenscheid

Participating artists are Juergen Albrecht, Refik Anadol, Atsara, Cuppetelli and Mendoza, Christoph Girardet, Hartung and Trenz, Dieter Kiessling, Vollrad Kutscher, Justin Lui, Jakob Mattner, László Moholy-Nagy, Klaus Obermaier, Otto Piene, Rainer Plum, Davide Quayola, Diana Ramaekers, Nicolas Schöffer, Robert Sochacki, Max Sudhues und Amy Youngs.

Luis del Mármol Carvajal

There is a cheap facsimile edition of another contemporary book in which he polemized with the author, albeit it was no printed at the time of the morisco´s war in the Alpujarra by Diego Hurtado de Mendoza: GUERRA DE GRANADA (FACSIMIL, edition of 1842), de HURTADO DE MENDOZA, DIEGO , 15.0x21.0 cm , 215 pages , softcover, ISBN 978-84-9761-157-2

Luisa Carvajal y Mendoza

Carvajal y Mendoza's legacy in Spain was evidenced during the 1990s, when Spain's airline, Iberia, named an Airbus A340 jet airliner after her.

Malbec

Argentina’s most highly rated Malbec wines originate from Mendoza’s high altitude wine regions of Luján de Cuyo and the Uco Valley.

Michael H. Evans

With Riili, Evans raised money from friends and family, purchased 900 acres of land in the Uco Valley, and created The Vines of Mendoza’s private vineyard estates.

Minnie Mendoza

Cristobal Rigoberto Mendoza Carreras (born November 16, 1933), better known as Minnie Mendoza, is a former Major League Baseball infielder and coach who played for the Minnesota Twins during the 1970 MLB season.

Panoptica

Roberto A. Mendoza , known as Panoptica, has been one of the figures in the Mexican electronic scene since the late 80s, founding bands like electro pos-industrial outfit Artefakto and in the late 90’s being part of the Tijuana based norteña-meets-techno Nortec Collective.

Richard Nelson Bolles

He lives in the East Bay of the San Francisco Bay Area and was married in 2004 to the former Marciana Garcia Mendoza Navarrete, who is from Cavite in the Philippines.

The Bridge at No Gun Ri

Published in 2001, it was written by Charles J. Hanley, Sang-hun Choe and Martha Mendoza, with researcher Randy Herschaft, the Associated Press (AP) journalists who wrote about the mass refugee killing in news reports that won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for investigative journalism and 10 other major national and international journalism awards.

Tierra Madre

It was directed by Dylan Verrechia, and co-written by Aidee Gonzalez based on her real life, with original music by Nortec Collective and Paco Mendoza.

Tom Mendoza

Mendoza has served in an advisory capacity on the board of directors of NetScreen (acquired by Juniper Networks), Rhapsody Networks (acquired by Brocade Communications Systems), and formerly served on the board of Infoblox.

Vanessa Mendoza

Despite suspicion that she had won the contest so that rumors about racism in it would be eradicated, Mendoza became popular among Colombians, who gave her the nickname "Black Barbie".