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unusual facts about Salinas, Ecuador



A. glutinosa

Aristeguietia glutinosa, the matico, a flowering plant species found only in Ecuador

ActionQuest

ActionQuest runs sailing and SCUBA training programs throughout the Caribbean, Australia, Ecuador and the Galapagos, Tahiti, and the Mediterranean.

Adiantum alarconianum

It has been collected in a number of locations in western Ecuador and in the Galápagos Islands, and in the nearby Tumbes Province of Peru.

Aiphanes chiribogensis

It is known from Pichincha Province in northwestern Ecuador, and was collected from Azuay Province in southwestern Ecuador 1943 but the area where it was collected has suffered extensive deforestation, and attempts to find it again in that area have been unsuccessful.

Antonio Ríos

Ríos got his first call up by interim coach Efraín Flores for friendly matches on September 4 and 7, 2010 against Ecuador and Colombia, respectively.

Astragalus bidentatus

It is found only in Ecuador in two locations in the south above the timberline in the Azuay and Cañar provinces.

Bernardino Echeverría Ruiz

Bernardino Echeverría Ruiz (born November 12, 1912 in Cotacachi, Imbabura, Ecuador and died on April 6, 2000 in Quito Ecuador) was a Roman Catholic Cardinal.

Buddleja ibarrensis

Buddleja ibarrensis is an endangered species endemic to a small area of Ecuador in the vicinity of Ibarra in subtropical or tropical moist montane forest at an elevation of 2,200 m threatened by deforestation.

Casas Grandes

Ruins similar to those of Casas Grandes exist near Gila and Salinas in New Mexico, and in Colorado.

Chlorocardium

They are present in Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, and the Guiana Shield (in northeastern Brazil, Venezuela (Amazonas, Bolívar and Delta Amacuro states), Guyana, Surinam and French Guiana).

Darío Cabrol

In 2003 Cabrol made his last run in the Argentine first division with Huracán before moving to Ecuador to join Emelec.

Doug Chandler

John Douglas Chandler (born September 27, 1965 in Salinas, California) is a professional motorcycle racer.

Foreign relations of Ecuador

Ecuador is a founding member of the UN and a member of many of its specialized agencies; it is also a member of the OAS.

Friends of FundeCruz

The Afro-Ecuadorian village of Piquiucho in northern Ecuador's Valle del Chota is a three-hour drive from Quito, the nation's capital.

Gilded Barbet

The Gilded Barbet ranges in the eastern Andes drainages to the rivers of the western Amazon Basin from eastern Colombia-Venezuela, eastern Ecuador, from north to south-eastern Peru, and northern Bolivia; in Bolivia the Barbet only ranges on the headwater tributaries to the north-easterly flowing Madeira River.

Hubert Wołąkiewicz

He made his full international debut on October 12, 2010 in a 2-2 draw against Ecuador.

Iñaquito

Various mission agencies have their headquarters for Ecuador here including HCJB and Youth World.

Jacques Zwobada

In 1929, with René Letourneur, he won an international competition for a gigantic monument to Simón Bolívar in Quito, Ecuador.

Jinsop

Soon after he became a member of The Apostles, and one of the judges of the aforementioned festival, Héctor Napolitano, who was a famed singer at the time, invited him to the recording studio of the label Ifesa to interpret the songs of Paul Anka and other artists, and that is how he released his first album called Puppy Love, which reached major airplay throughout Ecuador, and which marked the beginning of his career as a solo artist.

José Valencia Murillo

José Luis Valencia Murillo (born March 19, 1982 in Quininde, Esmeraldas) is an Ecuadorian footballer.

KYZZ

KMZT-FM, a radio station (97.9 FM) licensed to serve Salinas, California, which held the call sign KYZZ from 2006 to 2013

Largenose catshark

The largenose catshark, Apristurus nasutus, is a cat shark of the family Scyliorhinidae found on the upper continental slopes in the eastern Pacific from the Gulf of Panama, Ecuador and central Chile, between latitudes 9° N and 28° S.

Luis Donaldo Colosio

In the early years of Salinas's presidency, Colosio served as the chairman of their party's National Executive Committee.

Luis García Anchundia

Luis Antonio García Anchundia (born September 20, 1993 in Chone) is an Ecuadorian footballer.

Luis Molinari

Luis Molinari (b. Guayaquil, Ecuador 1929 - d. Quito, Ecuador 1994) (Luis Molinari-Flores) was a member of VAN (Vanguardia Artística Nacional), a group of informal constructivist artists founded by Enrique Tábara and Aníbal Villacís.

Machalilla culture

The Machalilla were a prehistoric people in Ecuador, in southern Manabí and the Santa Elena Peninsula.

Maldonado Base

Maldonado Base, also Pedro Vicente Maldonado Base, is the Ecuadorian Antarctic research base situated at Guayaquil Bay, Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica opened in 1990.

Mercedes Soler

Soler has interviewed various high-profile figures during her two decade career including Alberto Fujimori of Peru, Miguel de la Madrid of Mexico, Carlos Menem of Argentina, Violeta Chamorro and Arnoldo Alemán of Nicaragua, Abdalá Bucaram and Gustavo Noboa of Ecuador, and Ernesto Samper of Colombia.

Miss United Continent

The first Miss Continente Americano Pageant held in Guayaquil, Ecuador in 2006.

National Model United Nations

Since 2008, NMUN has expanded internationally, hosting conferences in Xi’an, China (2008), Quito, Ecuador (2010), Olomouc, Czech Republic (2010), Lille, France (2012), Galápagos, Ecuador (2013), and Seoul, South Korea, planned for December 2013.

Nesoryzomys fernandinae

It is found only on Fernandina in the Galápagos Islands (part of Ecuador), which it shares with N. indefessus narboroughi.

Osornophryne

Osornophryne (Plump Toads) is a genus of true toads endemic to Colombia and Ecuador at Cordillera Central region.

Pablo Salinas

Pablo Antonio Salinas Menacho (born 7 August 1979 in Santa Cruz de la Sierra) is a Bolivian football forward who currently plays for Club Blooming.

Pamela Wu

Prior to joining KCRA 3, Wu worked as anchor and reporter at stations across Northern California, including KVIQ in Eureka, KION in Salinas/Monterey, and the KCRA 3 sister station in Salinas/Monterey, KSBW.

Pedro Moncayo

Pedro Moncayo y Esparza (29 June 1807 in Ibarra, Ecuador — February 1888 in Valparaíso, Chile) was an Ecuadorian journalist and politician.

Pelliciera

Pelliciera rhizophorae, known as the tea mangrove, is a less-common species of mangroves found along the Pacific coast from the Gulf of Nicoya in Costa Rica to the Esmeraldas River in Ecuador as well as within stands located in Nicaragua, Panama, and Colombia.

Petter Villegas

Villegas left MLS afterwards, going back to his native Ecuador to play for Aucas, Barcelona SC, Manta and Deportivo Cuenca.

Pink dolphin

The Amazon river dolphin (Inia geoffrensis) that live in the river systems of Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia and Venezuela.

Pouteria caimito

It also grows around Tingo Maria and Iquitos, Peru and it will commonly be found in the Province of Guayas in Ecuador, where it's sold in the markets.

Raúl Eduardo Vela Chiriboga

He served as archbishop of Quito and the Primate of Ecuador from 2003 to 2010 when Fausto Trávez Trávez was appointed to replace Archbishop Vela Chiriboga.

Required navigation performance

Since 2009, regulators in Perú, Chile and Ecuador have deployed more than 25 RNP-AR approach procedures, designed in conjunction with LAN Airlines.

Ronald L. Ellis

Berlinger had been forced to yield his outtakes for a film about Chevron operations in Ecuador because he had removed a scene at the request of his subjects.

Sex workers' rights

So far, the organization has influenced policy in certain countries and has interacted with the president Rafael Correa of Ecuador and Luis Ignacio Lula de Silva in Brazil.

Sharon Tay

In 1993, KCCN-TV, now KION in Salinas, California, hired her as a general assignment reporter / consumer investigative reporter.

Solus Christi Brothers

Seminarians are formed through Solus Christi Seminary whose formation program is affiliated with our jurisdiction's major seminary, the International Seminary of Saint Basil, Quito, Ecuador.

Tony Gómez

He played for teams in Uruguay (Club Nacional de Football, Club Atletico River Plate, Montevideo Wanderers, Plaza Colonia), Argentinia (San Lorenzo de Almagro, Club Atlético Independiente, Estudiantes de La Plata), Barcelona Sporting Club in Ecuador and finally Matsunichi in China.

Velasco Ibarra

El Empalme, known officially as Velasco Ibarra, a city in Guayas, Ecuador

Vincente de Valverde

He was born in Oropesa, Spain, about 1495 and most sources claim he died on Puná Island, now part of Ecuador, in 1541, at the hands of the indigenous peoples.

Watsonville Riots

In September 4, 2011, California apologized to Filipinos and Filipino Americans in an Assembly resolution authored by Assemblyman Luis Alejo, D-Salinas.

Xenastrapotherium

aequatorialis (Johnson & Madden, 1997): Based on a piece of right lower jaw, found in the river Burgaya in the province of Cañar, Ecuador, in the Biblián Formation (Middle Miocene, 19 million years ago).


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