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3 unusual facts about Oñate


Alejandro Goicoechea

In 1942 Goicoechea worked with the company Hijos de Juan de Garay in Oñate and other companies to build a first test train consisting of seven low-slung cars of only 4.44 m length, of a roughly semi-circular cross-section, pulled by a power unit based on a powered bogie from Ganz Works.

Oñate

Eugenio Oñate Ibañez de Navarra, a Spaniard engineer and a leading figure in computational mechanics.

Oñate is an older spelling of Oñati, a town in Gipuzkoa, Spain


Íñigo Vélez de Guevara, 7th Count of Oñate

Íñigo Vélez de Guevara, seventh Count of Oñate and Count of Villamediana (1566 – October 31, 1644 in Madrid) was a Spanish political figure.

San Elizario, Texas

Oñate performed the ceremony of La Toma ("Taking Possession"), in which he claimed the new province for King Philip II of Spain.

San Miguel del Vado Land Grant

Oñate’s pobladores or colonists extended El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro over 600 miles reaching the San Juan Pueblo (currently Ohkay Owingeh) in the Tewa province and establishing the Hispanic settlement of San Gabriel in the Tewa pueblo of Yunque on the Rio Grande.


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