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3 unusual facts about Santa Isabel


Santa Isabel, Baja California

Santa Isabel – Saint Isabel – is a city in Baja California in Mexicali Municipality.

Santa Isabel, Espírito Santo

As part of this program the first 39 families from North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate (then known as Rheinpreussen in German or Prússia Renana in Portuguese, today those names are only historical), arrived to Vitória on the 21 of December 1846, first they settled in Viana but in 1857 most families followed on to found Santa Isabel Colony in the 27th of January 1857.

Santa Isabel, Puerto Rico

Benito Santiago - Baseball player; won unanimously the 1986 the National League's Rookie of the Year Award (San Diego Padres).


Álvaro Cervera

Álvaro Cervera Díaz (born 20 September 1965 in Santa Isabel, Spanish Guinea) is a Spanish retired footballer who played as a winger, and the current coach of CD Tenerife.

Costanera Center

-- and Santa Isabel -->, luxury and international fashion stores such as Armani Exchange, Façonnable, Topshop, H&M, Hugo Boss, Banana Republic, Brooks Brothers, Swarovski, Zara, Guess and G-Star Raw, and more than 100 shops including the three largest Chilean department stores, Paris, Falabella and Ripley.

Francisco Malabo Beosá

In 1973, Francisco Macías Nguema in his policy of Africanizing the names of geographic landmarks in Equatorial Guinea, changed the name of Santa Isabel, the capital of Equatorial Guinea to Malabo in honor of his father King Malabo.

History of rail transport in Equatorial Guinea

The history of rail transport in Equatorial Guinea began in 1913, when a standard gauge railway was constructed from the capital of Equatorial Guinea, Santa Isabel, to the nearby villages of Banapa and Basupo.

Irarrázaval metro station

The station is located underground, between stations Santa Isabel to the north and Ñuble to the south.

Jorge Melício

Examples include the "Familia" in Fernando Pessoa Garden, near the assembly of the municipal of Lisboa and the recent ceramic monument dedicated to the life and work of Queen Santa Isabel, at the headquarters of Caixa Geral de Depósitos (bank) in Lisbon.

Juan Cortada Tirado

In 1887, Cortada was arrested in Santa Isabel on orders of General Romualdo Palacios for conspiring against the Spanish Government.

Los Nevados National Natural Park

In addition to Nevado del Ruiz, seven other volcanoes are located in the area: Nevado del Tolima, Santa Isabel, Nevado del Quindío, Páramo de Santa Rosa, Cerro Bravo, Cerro Machín and Nevado El Cisne.

Postage stamps and postal history of Equatorial Guinea

The first stamps of the island of Fernando Po were issued in 1868 by the Spanish colonial authorities in the capital Santa Isabel.


see also

Equatoguinean literature in Spanish

Writers from the diaspora also wrote narratives of exile: for example, El sueño (The Dream) and La travesía (The Crossing) by Donato Ndongo-Bidyogo (Niefang, Río Muni, 1950-), La última carta del Padre Fulgencio Abad, C. M. F. (The Last Letter of Father Fulgencio Abad, C. M. F.) by Maplal Loboch (1912-1976), and Bea by Francisco Zamora Loboch (Santa Isabel, 1947-).

Santa Isabel de Utinahica

Santa Isabel de Utinahica (ca. 1610-ca. 1640) was a 17th-century Spanish mission believed by the Fernbank Museum of Natural History to be located in modern-day Telfair County, Georgia, near Jacksonville.