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6 unusual facts about Pereira


A Man of Principle

The Conservative Party, no longer willing to tolerate the atrocities of Leon Maria Lozano, sends him to Pereira for protection and promises him a pension.

Abierto Internacional de Golf del Eje Cafetero

The Abierto Internacional de Golf del Eje Cafetero is an annual golf tournament held in Pereira, Colombia.

Fernando Uribe

Fernando Uribe Hincapié (born 1 January 1988 in Pereira) is a Colombian footballer who plays as a striker for Atlético Nacional.

Hernán Barreneche

Hernán Barreneche Ríos (born July 25, 1939 in Pereira, Risaralda) is a long-distance runner from Colombia, who twice represented his native country at the Summer Olympics (1968 and 1972).

Sin Senos no Hay Paraíso

Catalina Santana (Carmen Villalobos), a young woman in Pereira, Colombia, is willing to risk everything in order to escape the poverty she lives in and fulfill her dreams - even if this means putting her life and her integrity in jeopardy.

Without Breasts There Is No Paradise

Bolívar says the story is based on real-life conditions facing child prostitutes in the town of Pereira.


Adeílson Pereira de Mello

Adeílson Pereira de Mello or Adeilson (born 7 October 1985 in Nova União) is a Brazilian striker who last played for Al-Shabab in UAE Pro-League.

Allan Kardeck

Allan Kardeck dos Santos Pereira also known as Allan Kardeck (born May 16, 1982 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) is a Brazilian footballer who currently plays for Guatemala side Halcones.

Álvaro Gonçalves Pereira

Álvaro Gonçalves Pereira, Prior of Crato, was born to Gonçalo (Gonçalves) Pereira, 97th Archbishop of Braga (1326-1349) and Teresa Peres Vilarinho.

André Micael

André Micael Pereira (born 4 February 1989 in Guimarães), known as Micael, is a Portuguese footballer who plays for Zawisza Bydgoszcz in Poland, as a defender.

Arab diaspora in Colombia

They later expanded to other cities and by 1945 there were Arab Middle Easterners moving inland like Ocaña, Cúcuta, Barrancabermeja, Ibagué, Girardot, Honda, Tunja, Villavicencio, Pereira, Soatá, Neiva, Buga, Chaparral and Chinácota.

Bélmez Faces

Located at the Pereira family home at Calle Real 5, Bélmez de la Moraleda, Jaén, Andalusia, Spain, the Bélmez faces have been responsible for bringing large numbers of sightseers to Bélmez.

Brian J.G. Pereira

In addition, Pereira was a member of the advisory boards of Amgen and Sigma-Tau Pharmaceuticals along with several other organizations.

César Gaviria Trujillo Viaduct

The bridge is named after César Gaviria Trujillo, president of Colombia from 1990 and 1994, who was born in Pereira.

Colombian coffee growing axis

The Matecaña City Zoo in Pereira, is one of the most important traditional zoos in Colombia and South America, has 150 species and 800 individuals, distributed in 239 mammals, 172 birds, 57 fish, 111 reptiles and 5 Of note, the high rate of reproduction, making even a few years ago the crossing of an African lion and a Bengal tiger, resulting in the 'Ligre.

Condor Syndikat

Its first share-holders were the three directors of Condor Syndikat, including Fritz W. Hammer, and the Brazilian Count Pereira Carneiro, owner of Jornal do Brasil and a shipping company.

Deportivo Pereira

While there are several teams in the Third Division (Primera C), Pereira is the only professional team in Risaralda.

Dudu do Banjo

Francisco Eduardo de Souza Pereira or Dudu (São Paulo, 4 June 1935) is a Brazilian Banjoist and Guitar Player known as "The king of banjo"

E. O. E. Pereira

His grandfather Edwin C. Pereira was a member of the first batch of students to graduate from the Ceylon Medical College in 1872.

Emmer Green

Caversham Place was designed by the architect Clough Williams-Ellis for Major-General Sir Cecil Pereira, whose brother The Rev Edward Thomas Pereira was headmaster and benefactor of The Oratory School.

Ephraim Lópes Pereira d'Aguilar, 2nd Baron d'Aguilar

Ephraim Lópes Pereira d'Aguilar (born 1739 in Vienna - died 1802 in London) was the second Baron d'Aguilar, a Barony of the Holy Roman Empire.

Espera Feliz

On the opposing edge of the São João River, Major Francisco Pereira de Souza constructed a group of houses, that received the name from Pereira Street.

Francisco Teixeira de Queiroz

Francisco Teixeira de Queiroz was born in 1848 to José Maria Teixeira de Queiroz and Antónia Joaquina Pereira Machado, in Arcos de Valdevez, a small town at the northern tip of Portugal.

Fraternidade Rosacruciana São Paulo

The Fraternidade Rosacruciana São Paulo ("The Saint Paul Rosicrucian Fellowship" - note that "Saint Paul" is a reference to Paul of Tarsus, not to the Brazilian city) is a Christian Rosicrucian esoteric school founded in 1929 by Lourival Camargo Pereira, in the city of São Paulo, Brazil, based on the Max Heindel, Eliphas Levi, Gurdjieff,Pëtr Dem'ǐanovič Uspenskiǐ and Maurice Nicoll teachings.

Galeote Pereira

Despite the severity of its punishments, Pereira extols the impartiality of the Ming judicial system, with its tradition of exemplary officials such as Judge Bao.

George Pereira

He was educated at the The Oratory School in Edgbaston, where his younger brother Edward Thomas Pereira ('E.P.') (1866–1939) was later principal and benefactor.

Godfrey Pereira

On 3 July 2012, it was announced that Pereira had become coach of Air India FC after Santosh Kashyap joined Mohun Bagan.

Hernani Almeida

Over the past two years in addition to recording his 1st solo CD, produced and directed musically also the last album " Vadu " and the first "Princesito", "Isa Pereira", "Eder", "Nho Nani" and he composed one music for the last disc of the Sara Tavares "Bouncer", entitled " DAM Bo", which was seen in Portugal as the best songs on the disc.

João Duarte Pereira

João Duarte Vieira Pereira (born 10 May 1990 in Santarém) is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays for Vejle in Denmark, as a central defender.

José Pacheco Pereira

José Álvaro Machado Pacheco Pereira, GCL (born January 6, 1949 in Porto) is a Portuguese political analyst, historian and politician, a member of PSD .

Lead Masks Case

The two men were identified as Manoel Pereira de Cruz and Miguel Jose Viana, two electronic technicians from Campos dos Goytacazes, a town several miles to the northeast of Rio de Janeiro.

Luís Moniz Pereira

Luís Moniz Pereira(born in 1947 in Lisbon, Portugal) is Professor of Computer Science and Director of the AI centre at Universidade Nova de Lisboa.

Marcia Haydée

Marcia Haydée (Marcia Haydée Salaverry Pereira de Silva), is a ballet dancer and choreographer from Brazil who was born in Niterói on April 18, 1937.

Marcos Soares Pereira

Marcos Soares Pereira was born in Caminha most probably at the end of the 16th century, as the son of João Soares Pereira and Maria Lourenço Rebelo.

Maximiliano Pereira

Pereira was again an undisputed starter for Uruguay in the 2011 Copa América held in Argentina, with the national team winning its 15th continental tournament.

An Uruguayan international since 26 October 2005 in a friendly loss in Mexico, Pereira quickly became a regular for the country, and represented it at the 2007 Copa América.

Mike Pereira

Pereira appeared on the NFL Network show, NFL Total Access, during the "Official Review" segment, to discuss key calls made during the previous week's games with host Rich Eisen every Wednesday during the season.

Milton Rodríguez

As a result of his play with Pereira, he would rejoin Deportivo Cali and would go on to one of the most successful stints in his career scoring 27 goals in 42 matches.

Nuno Álvares Pereira

Nuno Álvares Pereira was born on June 24th, 1360, in Flor da Rosa, near Crato, central Portugal, the illegitimate son of Dom Álvaro Gonçalves Pereira, Prior of Crato and Iria Gonçalves do Carvalhal.

Pedro Álvares Pereira

He was the son of Iria Gonçalves do Carvalhal and Álvaro Gonçalves Pereira, to whom he succeed after his death as patriarch of the Pereira family and as Prior of Crato (leader of the Knights Hospitaller in Portugal).

Pereira Maintains

Its story follows Pereira, a journalist for the culture column of a small Lisbon newspaper, as he struggles with his conscience and the restrictions of the fascist regime of Antonio Salazar.

Péricles Pereira

Péricles Santos Pereira (born 10 April 1993 in Mindelo, São Vicente), commonly known as Pecks, is a Cape Verdean professional footballer who plays for Gil Vicente F.C. in Portugal, mainly as a central defender.

Portuguese Rapid Reaction Brigade

The KIA Comando was 1st Sergeant Roma Pereira, mortally hit when an IED detonated his Humvee.

Ricardo Alves Pereira

Ricardo Alves Pereira or simply Ricardinho (born August 8, 1988 in Sinop, Mato Grosso), is a Brazilian footballer, currently plays for Figueirense.

Thiago Michel

Thiago Michel Pereira Silva, a.k.a. Thiago Michel (born May 15, 1984) is a Brazilian professional kickboxer and mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter currently fighting for Bellator Fighting Championships in their season six lightweight tournament.

Thiago Pereira

Thiago Machado Vilela Pereira (born January 26, 1986 in Volta Redonda) is an international competition swimmer from Brazil.

In March 2004, in the 37th South American Swimming Championships in Maldonado, Pereira won the gold medal in the 200-meter individual medley, beating the South American record with a time of 2:00.19 and earning an "A" designation in Brazil's Olympic classification.

Tininho

Ronildo Pereira de Freitas (born 23 October 1977 in Montes Claros, Minas Gerais), aka Tininho, is a Brazilian retired footballer.

Wenceslau Braz

Venceslau Brás, Wenceslau Braz Pereira Gomes, president of Brazil

Wilson Edgar Pereira Alegre

Wilson Edgar Pereira Alegre (born July 22, 1984 in Huambo) is an Angolan football goalkeeper who currently plays for 1º de Agosto.


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