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unusual facts about Trujillo, Trujillo


Michel de Grammont

De Grammont landed his men in Spanish-held Venezuela and captured Maracaibo then followed the capture and plundering of several smaller towns as Gibraltar, penetrating as far inland as Trujillo.


1999 Atlantic hurricane season

Flooding also damage five bridges in Honduras, and the cities of Tocoa and Trujillo were isolated as the Aguán and Siline rivers overflowed their banks.

Afro-Central American

Some of these Africans also transported metals from mines in Guatemala to the Atlantic coast ports of Trujillo or Puerto de Caballos in modern day Honduras.

Alejandro Romualdo

Alejandro Romualdo (December 19, 1926 Trujillo, Peru – May 27, 2008 Lima, Peru) is a Peruvian poet of the 20th century.

Alvaro Obertos de Valeto

Genoese family of Fíeseos who participated in the capture of Seville and Jerez in the service of Kingdom of Castile Fernando III and Alfonso X. His parents were Francisco de Morla and Francisca Martinez Obertos de Valeto, the daughter of Miguel Vargas Obertos de Valeto and Juana and Martinez Trujillo.

Amado García Guerrero

According to Bernard Diederich, the reason for Trujillo's refusal of García's marriage request was that his fiancé's brother had looked for asylum in a foreign embassy in the capital.

A member of the Military Aides-de-Camp of Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, he was the person who informed the other conspirators that Trujillo would later leave that night for San Cristóbal.

Arturo Corcuera

Daniel Arturo Corcuera Osores (September 30, 1935- in Trujillo) is a Peruvian poet.

Astete

He saw the founding of San Miguel de Piura, chose the location for Trujillo and was among the first residents at Huamanga (now known as Ayacucho).

Bernard Diederich

After Mario Vargas Llosa published ‘’The Feast of the Goat’’, a fictionalized novel about Trujillo’s death, in 2000, Diederich accused Vargas Llosa of plagiarism.

Biofilo Panclasta

He soon left this group behind and wandered around Venezuela with other revolutionary groups that prowled through Trujillo, Portuguesa, Cojedes and Carabobo.

Chiviri

From twelve o'clock, an orchestra plays in the Main Square of Trujillo popular tunes (see detail in songs).

Cristobal Model 3

After Trujillo's death (assassination), the new Dominican government was not interested in Dominican weapon manufacturing and the M3 was not adopted by the Dominican Armed Forces.

E.E. Charlton-Trujillo

e.E. Charlton-Trujillo, a South Texas native, is an award-winning filmmaker and novelist.

Edmund Moeller

As the most famous of his works of sculpture is considered the Liberty Memorial opened in 1927 in the city of Trujillo, Peru's freedom monument in honor of the 100 of early proclaimed the independence of Trujillo.

For his work in the Freedom Monument in the city of Trujillo, received from Peruvian government the highest title that grants the state: The Medal The Sun of Peru and also the title of professor, died in Dresden, a city that had longer residence time.

Emmanuel Milingo

The others were Archbishop Peter Paul Brennan of the African Orthodox Church and the Ecumenical Catholic Diocese of the Americas, who according to one website was first consecrated a bishop on June 10, 1978, and subsequently reconsecrated in October 1979 and twice more in March 1987; Archbishop Patrick E. Trujillo of the Old Catholic Church in America and Archbishop Joseph J. Gouthro of Las Vegas, presiding bishop of the Catholic Apostolic Church International (CACI).

Foundation of Trujillo, Peru

November 1534 by the Spanish conquistador, Diego de Almagro, who founded the first Spanish settlement in Moche Valley, naming it Trujillo of New Castile after the home city of Francisco Pizarro Trujillo of Extremadura.

José Francisco Gana

Gana with his battalion captured the City of Huaras with the whole garrison, and, as a consequence, the provinces of Trujillo, Lambayeque, and Piura pronounced for the insurrection, leading to the whole northern portion of Peru being wrestled from the rule of the viceroy.

Juan Aurich

In 2013, the stadium was closed for renovations in preparation for the 2013 Bolivarian Games to be held in Trujillo.

Juan Ricardo Roldán

Juan Ricardo Roldán Trujillo (born 31 March 1986 in Lagos de Moreno) is a Mexican football goalkeeper.

Julia Alvarez

Released in 1994, her second novel, In the Time of the Butterflies, has a historical premise and elaborates on the death of the Mirabal sisters during the time of the Trujillo dictatorship in the Dominican Republic.

Karmei Tzur

This includes 13 families living in the adjacent Tzur Shalem outpost and eight immigrant families of Inca Jews from Trujillo, Peru, who have been housed there as part of an absorption program.

Kristina Ruisánchez

Kristina placed 2nd Runner-up at the Miss Puerto Rico Universe 2008 pageant where she competed as Miss Trujillo Alto.

La Quebrada

La Quebrada, Venezuela, also known as La Quebrada de San Roque, capital of Urdaneta Municipality, Trujillo.

La Voz Dominicana

The station was a radio broadcast only called La Voz del Yuna (1943) in Bonao until Jose Arismendy Trujillo Molina (Petan), brother of President Trujillo, acquired the station and moved it the capital city.

Larco Museum

He also purchased several small collections in Chicama Valley, Trujillo, Virú, and Chimbote.

Las Delicias, Trujillo

Las Delicias is a coastal town and resort located in Moche district, in Trujillo city, La Libertad Region, Peru.

Mansiche, La Libertad, Peru

Located in the northwest of Trujillo District was the outsides of the colonial city of Trujillo.

Manuel de Odriozola

However, upon the advance of the realists, he quickly migrated to Trujillo, where he continued to contribute to public life.

Married Priests Now!

Milingo gained international attention in September 2006 when he illicitly ordained four married men (George Augustus Stallings Jr. of Washington; Peter Paul Brennan of New York; Patrick Trujillo of Newark, New Jersey; and Joseph Gouthro of Las Vegas, Nevada)

Moche River

The Moche river goes through east to west the metropolitan area of Trujillo and its mouth is located in the Pacific Ocean in the limits of Moche and Victor Larco both towns of Trujillo city.

Nathaniel Butler

While on a privateering expedition in mid-1639 along the Spanish Main, he successfully captured a Spanish frigate at the harbour of Trujillo, and was later paid 16,000 pesos in ransom.

O. Henry

While holed up in a Trujillo hotel for several months, he wrote Cabbages and Kings, in which he coined the term "banana republic" to describe the country, a phrase subsequently used widely to describe a small, unstable tropical nation in Latin America with a narrowly focused, agrarian economy.

Orlando Romero

On October 22, he had his first bout outside Lima, when he knocked out Carlos Soriano in the second round at Trujillo.

Paya language

At the time of initial Spanish contact, Pech was most likely spoken from Trujillo in the west to Cabo Gracias a Dios in the east, and as far south as the upper Patuca River (Holt 1999).

Priscila Navarro

As she learned quickly her father continued to support her talent and she enrolled in a summer course of piano at the National Cultural Institute in Trujillo, Peru, with Professor Silvia Rosales Tam.

Rímac District

Downtown Rímac District has, like its southern counterpart, its eastern and western sides divided by Jirón Trujillo, which connects to Lima District's Jirón de la Unión through the Puente de Piedra, the oldest bridge in the whole city.

Ronda Campesina

Even though the internal conflict is now largely confined to the VRAE and has greatly diminished since 1992, the term Rondero is still used in everyday speech in Peru to signify a volunteer neighbourhood watchman either the countryside or in the sub-urbs of cities such as Lima or Trujillo.

San Jose Festival

This festival is celebrated in Moche District since the year 1993 in Las Delicias Beach located around 10 km south Trujillo city.

Sir Alexander Fleming College

Sir Alexander Fleming College (commonly known as Fleming College or simply Fleming) is a British school in Trujillo, northern Perú.

Tomás de Torrejón y Velasco

Throughout his career as a composer he received wide acclaim; his villancicos were known as far away as Guatemala, and at both Trujillo and Cuzco his opinions were solicited before crucial musical decisions were taken.

Tony Trujillo

Trujillo has a signature shoe line with Vans and the company produced two commercials, shot by Stacy Peralta, to advertise the shoe (Trujillo appeared in both).

Unión Ájax

Unión Ájax is a Honduran soccer club based in Trujillo, Honduras.

Víctor Hugo Carrillo

Víctor Hugo is a referee in Peruvian Primera División, Copa Libertadores, Copa Sudamericana, 2010 FIFA World Cup, and several South American qualifiers, international friendly matches and in the Copa Perú, when he reffed a match between Los Caimanes against Universitario (Trujillo) in Chiclayo.


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