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unusual facts about Valverde, Santa Cruz de Tenerife


Saint Brendan's Island

In 1719, the Scottish monk Sigbert de Gembloux reported seeing the island, as did Don Matea Dacesta, mayor of Valverde, El Hierro in 1721.


Alejandro Colina

Alejandro Colina's parents were Alejandro Torcuato Colina, the illegitimate son of Estado Falcón; and Fermina Viera, a Spanish lady originally from Santa Cruz de Tenerife.

Alonso de Espinosa

A reprint of Espinosa's book appeared in Santa Cruz de Tenerife in 1848, as one of the Biblioteca Isleña series.

Animal-borne bomb attacks

In 1862, during the New Mexico Campaign of the American Civil War a Confederate force approached the ford at Valverde, six miles north of Fort Craig, hoping to cut Union communications between the fort and their headquarters in Santa Fe.

Antonio Gutiérrez de Otero y Santayana

Antonio Gutiérrez de Otero y Santayana (May 8, 1729 – May 14, 1799) was a Spanish Lieutenant General best known for repelling Admiral Nelson's attack on Santa Cruz de Tenerife in 1797.

Cabildo de Tenerife

The initial location of the Tenerife Town Hall was the Santa Cruz de Tenerife City council building.

Charles Victor Woirgard

Charles Victor Woirgard (16 October 1764, Metz - 19 February 1810, Valverde), also known by the surname of Beaugard or Beauregard, was a French général de brigade of the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars.

Diego Estrada

Diego Alonso Estrada Valverde (born 25 May 1989 in Alajuela, Costa Rica) is a Costa Rican footballer.

Ecuadorian Navy

On the 25th July 1941 during the Ecuadorian–Peruvian War, the gunboat Calderon commanded by Rafael Morán Valverde encountered the Peruvian destroyer Almirante Villar in the Jambeli channel.

Ernesto Valverde

Subsequently Valverde played two years at FC Barcelona, winning a Copa del Rey and a UEFA Cup Winners' Cup, although he appeared sparingly in the process (only 13 minutes against Lech Poznań in the latter tournament).

George Glas

A few days later he was seized by the Spaniards, taken to Teneriffe and imprisoned at Santa Cruz de Tenerife.

Henry Blackwood

Early in 1798 Brilliant was sent out to join Admiral Waldegrave on the Newfoundland station; and on 26 July, whilst standing close in to the bay of Santa Cruz in quest of a French privateer, she observed the frigates Vertu and Régénérée preparing to sail for Rochefort.

Ísis Valverde

Ísis Valverde played Camila in the 2009 telenovela Caminho das Índias, her character falls in love to Ravi, an Indian character played by Caio Blat.

Ísis Nable Valverde was born in Aiuruoca, Minas Gerais state, she moved to Belo Horizonte to study when she was 15 years-old.

Joaquín Valverde Sanjuán

Quinito Valverde was also well known for a popular song called "Clavelitos" (Little Carnations) with words by José Juan Cadenas, which has been sung and recorded by performers as diverse as Conchita Supervía, Lucrezia Bori, Amelita Galli-Curci, Rosa Ponselle, Antonina Nezhdanova, Victoria de los Ángeles, and Florence Foster Jenkins.

Menceyato of Güímar

Occupied an area significantly greater than the actual municipality of Güímar, including part of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, El Rosario, Candelaria, Arafo and Fasnia, himself and perhaps a small part of the town of Arico.

Miguel Ángel Rodríguez

In 2007, Christian Sapsizian, a former adjunct to the vicepresident of Alcatel for Latin America, pleaded guilty in the U.S. District Court of Miami to violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act by conspiring with Edgar Valverde (the president of Alcatel in Costa Rica) to bribe an "official" of the Costa Rican Institute of Electricity (ICE) and a "senior government official" of Costa Rica.

Peñate

There is also a relatively high concentration on Peñates in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Huelva, Sevilla, Madrid, and Barcelona.

Plaza de la Patrona de Canarias

This square is considered one of the "main squares" of the island of Tenerife, together with the Plaza de España in Santa Cruz de Tenerife and the Plaza del Cristo de La Laguna in San Cristóbal de La Laguna.

Sabin Berthelot

He retired in August 1874, and was given the freedom of the city of Santa Cruz de Tenerife.

Salada

Laguna Salada, a municipality (municipio) of the Valverde province in the Dominican Republic

San Juan de la Rambla, Santa Cruz de Tenerife

San Juan de la Rambla (first part Spanish for Saint John) is a municipality in the northern part of the island of Tenerife, one of the Canary Islands, and part of the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife.

San Manuel Bueno, Mártir

The fictional location in San Manuel bueno, mártir was perhaps inspired by a real place, as suggested by the real life lake San Martín de Castañeda, in Sanabria, at the foot of the ruins of a convent to St. Bernard where to this day lives a legend of a submerged city (Valverde de Lucerna) sleeping at the bottom of the lake.

Satellite tobacco mosaic virus

The Satellite Tobacco Mosaic Virus or Tobacco mosaic satellivirus is a satellite virus first reported in Nicotiana glauca from southern California, U.S.A. by Valverde and Dodds.

Super Besse

Alejandro Valverde is listed as the winner for the 2008 stage as original stage winner Riccardo Riccò was removed from the classification after testing positive for the banned performance-enhancer CERA.

Tout le monde veut prendre sa place

The game is presented by Nagui and is narrated alternatively by Gérard Pullicino, Serge Khalfon, Tristan Carné, Richard Valverde, Nicolas Druet, and Laurence Deloupy.


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