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5 unusual facts about Norte


Deserto de Viana

The road linking Sal Rei and Norte crosses the southern half of the desert and is partially paved.

Languages of Andorra

The traditional economic situation in Northern Portugal (mainly Norte) prompted a large migration flux to the country between 1960 and 1980, increasing the Portuguese population to 11% of the total, which added to a small community of Brazilians which migrated to Andorra in the 1990s has led to a present day lusophone population of about 13% of the country's total.

Norte

Norte, Cape Verde, a village in the east-northeastern part of the island of Boa Vista

Norte, Cape Verde

The village is around 35 km southeast of the island capital of Sal Rei and it is linked with the island's major road with Sal Rei and a remote road to Estância de Baixo and Morro Negro a few kilometres to the south.

Praia das Gatas

Its total length is approximately 10 km and it extends from the area east of Norte to the island's northeasternmost point.


¡Sin Salsa No Hay Paraíso!

The album, on Sony Discos Norte, was shortlisted for Premio Lo Nuestro 2011, 2011 Latin Billboard Music Awards, Grammy Award for Best Traditional Tropical Latin Album but in each case lost out to other artists.

Acamarachi

This is most likely the second highest crater lake in the world, and also the third highest lake of any kind in South America, behind the crater lake of Ojos del Salado and the small lagoon in the col between Tres Cruces Sur and Tres Cruces Norte.

Aeronorte

Empresa de Transportes Aéreos Norte do Brasil Ltda – Aeronorte was a Brazilian airline founded in 1949 that operated in the north and northeast regions of Brazil.

Arco Norte

Plans are for the Arco Norte to be extended at its western end from the junction with the Mexico-Querétaro toll road to Atlacomulco and the junction with Mexican Federal Highway 126, a route to Guadalajara.

Assembly of the Guarani People – North Charagua

Assembly of the Guarani People – North Charagua (in Spanish: Asamblea del Pueblo Guarani - Charagua Norte), a progressive political grouping based amongst the Guarani people that contested the December 2004 municipal elections in Charagua, Santa Cruz Department, Bolivia.

Avenida Roque Sáenz Peña

Avenida Roque Sáenz Peña (also known as Diagonal Norte), is a main artery in the San Nicolás quarter of Buenos Aires, Argentina.

BR-101

Also the 404 km stretch between Natal in Rio Grande do Norte and Palmares-PE, is being widened (with about 70 km, cutting the metropolitan area of Recife, being already widened).

Cabeço dos Tarrafes

The town is located approximately 30 to 35 km E of the island capital of Sal Rei and around 3 km south of the village of Norte.

Carpenter's Anole

It is found in Amistad Caribe, Huetar Norte, Cordillera Volcanica Central, Guanacaste, Tortuguero; outside Costa Rica it is found from northwestern Colombia to Costa Rica.

Cementerio del Norte, Montevideo

Cementerio del Norte is the largest cemetery in Montevideo, Uruguay, and also the largest green park area of the city.

Companhia Brasileira de Aluminio

After acquiring a 10% stake in mining company Mineração Rio do Norte, CBA now holds bauxite mines in the South-East part of Parana State and has another mine in the municipality of Cataguases and Itamarati de Minas in Minas Gerais State.

Cristina Eustace

Cristina has performed as an opening act for groups in Mexico and the United States including Kumbia Kings, Aida Cuevas, Los Huracanes de Norte.

El Rito, Rio Arriba County, New Mexico

It is the home of the Carson National Forest Service – El Rito Ranger District, the El Rito Public Library, the Las Clinicas del Norte, and a campus of Northern New Mexico College.

Fort Dick

Fort Dick, California is a small unincorporated city in Del Norte County, California.

Fundo das Figueiras

The village is around 30 km southeast of the island capital of Sal Rei and south of Norte and are linked with the road linking with Rabil and Sal Rei and a remote road northeast to Gata and south to Cabeço do Tarafes.

Hatonuevo

BHP Billiton and its joint venture partners, Anglo American and Glencore, became equal owners of the Cerrejon Zona Norte (CZN) coal mine in Colombia in February 2002, when they acquired International Colombia Resources Corporation (Intercor) from ExxonMobil, which held the mine's remaining 50 per cent ownership and operational interests.

Ilocos Norte-class patrol boat

On Dec.24, 2009, an Ilocos Norte-class patrol boat, BRP Nueva Vizcaya (SARV 3502), along with BRP Pampanga (SARV 003)and MT Tug Habagat (TB-271) was deployed to Cavite to conduct search and rescue operations when MV Catalyn B, a wooden hull motorized vessel collided with the fishing vessel FV Anatalia and sank some 2.8 nautical miles northwest of Limbones Island at 2:25 a.m.

The Ilocos Norte-class patrol boat is a series of four vessels in active service of the Philippine Coast Guard.

Jacu

Jacu River, in the Rio Grande do Norte and Paraíba states in eastern Brazil

Jaruco

The municipality borders with Habana del Este (municipal borough of Havana), Santa Cruz del Norte, Madruga and San José de las Lajas.

Jason and Iyare

Ollie Twist is currently organizing and running Fibre with Kiss FM's Manny Norte, Steve Feelgood and Hasangi at the White House in Clapham Common on the first Wednesday of the month.

João Galego

The village is around 30 km southeast of the island capital of Sal Rei and about 5 km northwest of Norte and it is linked with the island's major road with Sal Rei and Norte.

Joselito Agustin

Joselito Agustin (1976 – 16 June 2010), also known as Aksyon Lito, was a Filipino journalist who worked for the DZJC radio station in Baccara, Ilocos Norte, on the island of Luzon, Philippines.

Juazeiro do Norte

Juazeiro do Norte was initially a district of the nearby city Crato, until a young Padre Cícero Romão Batista decided to stay as a cleric in the village.

Kodigo Norte

Kodigo Norte (a satiric misspelling of the Spanish phrase "codigo norte", or "northern code") is a Rap music group formed in 2004 in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain.

KSLV

KSLV-FM, a radio station (96.5 FM) licensed to Del Norte, Colorado, United States

Mexican governors of New Mexico

New Mexico was at first a province of the Estado interno del Norte, with capital in Chihuahua.

National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific

John "Jack" Chevigny, Norte Dame football player (said, "that's one for the Gipper" in 1928 game) who was killed on Iwo Jima.

Paseo de la Castellana

It starts at Plaza de Colón, passes through the Nuevos Ministerios, Plaza de Lima, Plaza de Cuzco, Plaza de Castilla, and ends near the Nudo Norte (North Junction), connecting with the M-30 and the road to Colmenar Viejo.

PBU

Patriot Bible University, a fundamentalist Christian correspondence school located in Del Norte, Colorado

Pepe Guízar

Besides Guadalajara he wrote Corrido del Norte, Como México no hay dos, and Tehuantepec, all hits that marked an epoch in the life of Mexican music.

Providencia, Chile

Other notable areas of interest in Providencia include the Metropolitan Zoo, the Teleférico (an aerial gondola that transports people from the foot of Pedro de Valdivia Norte Street to the top of San Cristóbal Hill), several television networks and Radio Cooperativa.

PVZ

Póvoa de Varzim, a Portuguese city in the Norte Region and sub-region of Greater Porto

Rio Grande do Norte

Rocas Atoll in the Atlantic Ocean, 260 km Northeast of Natal, also belongs to the state of Rio Grande do Norte.

Rosario Norte Station

From Rosario Norte the line continued to the northwest, crossing several provinces of Argentina to reach Tucumán.

San Manuel, Pangasinan

On September 12, 2012, gun-for-hire suspect Marcelino Cardinas Jr. (alias Jun Fabro, Barangay Botobot Norte, Balaoan, La Union) was arrested on the Case Unclosed twin murders of San Manuel’s Vice-Mayor Bonifacio Apilado (in Urdaneta City on June 20, 2007,)and Christopher Alfonso (an engineer, on Aug. 21, 2011).

Santa Cruz del Norte

This is the main home of the Havana Club rum distillery; all dark varieties being produced in Santa Cruz del Norte.

The municipality is divided into the consejos populares of Santa Cruz del Norte (the town proper) and the villages of Boca de Jaruco, Jibacoa, El Fraile, Arcos de Canasí, El Comino, La Sierra, Hershey (or Camilo Cienfuegos), Loma del Tanque, El Rubio and Paula.

Sistema Interconectado del Norte Grande

The Sistema Interconectado del Norte Grande (Spanish for Interconnected System of Norte Grande) or SING is an alternating current power grid serving the Norte Grande zone of Chile, it produces 19% of the national power generation.

Umuarama

The municipality was founded in 1955, and colonized by Companhia Melhoramentos Norte do Paraná, a company that settled an important number of cities in Northern Paraná.

Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas FC

ground = Estadio Universitario Unidad Deportiva NorteZacatecas, Zacatecas

Victor Turpo

In 1968 he obtained the first prize medal of gold ERBA (Bellas Artes Regional School), in 1970 won the first prize ICPNA (Peruvian Norte American Cultural Institute) in the regional competition at "Palace of the Municipal Government of Arequipa", in 1974 he obtained first Honorable Mention Good Year ICPNA (Peruvian Norte American Cultural Institute) in Arequipa.

Water supply and sanitation in Ecuador

Since 2003, the Belgian government has supported the Agua Potable para la Sierra Norte (APOSINO) or Potable Water for the Northern Sierra region, which is a technical assistance program in the provinces of Imbabura and Carchi.

Yataity del Norte

Yataity del Norte is a town and district in the San Pedro department of Paraguay, you can access this district by Route 8 "Dr. Blás Garay", like most people who were born and grew up on the side of the road, is a laborious community, which focuses on trade and agricultural production.

Yerupajá

The summit is the highest point in the Amazon River watershed, and was first reached in 1950 by Jim Maxwell and Dave Harrah, and its northern peak (Yerupajá Norte) in 1968 by the Wellingtonian Roger Bates and Graeme Dingle.


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