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unusual facts about Yerba Buena, Tucumán



Ana Gloria Moya

Born in Tucuman, Moya works as a lawyer in the northwestern province of Salta.

Antonio Domingo Bussi

The Swedish industrial firm Scania opened a facility in Colombres during his tenure that remains the fourth-largest maker of freight trucks and buses in the country.

Argentine real

Other provinces issued coins denominated in reales (silver) and escudos (gold): Córdoba, Entre Ríos, La Rioja, Mendoza, Salta, Santiago del Estero and Tucumán.

Arturo Alsina

Born in Tucumán, Argentina to a family of Catalan origin, he moved to Paraguay with his family in 1909.

Baltasar de la Cueva, Count of Castellar

He spoke perfect Quichúa and had been accepted as a prince by the Andean tribes of Tucumán (Argentina).

Battle of Famaillá

Lavalle was finally forced to retreat towards Catamarca Province, where he and Lamadrid divided the provinces again: the latter would go to Cuyo to try to raise an insurrection against Rosas, while Lavalle would await a confrontation with Oribe in Tucumán, joining his forces with that province's governor, Marco Avellaneda.

Battle of Rodeo del Medio

The losers did not yet know, but five days before, General Lavalle had been defeated in the Battle of Famaillá in Tucumán,

Bella Vista, Tucumán

Opposition from Tucumán authorities led to their persecution during the Operativo Independencia offensive of 1975, in addition to which a conflict with the far-left People's Revolutionary Army (ERP) band arose, leading to Santillán's death on March 22, 1976 (an unsolved mystery).

Bridge and tunnel

Residents from the East Bay typically drive or take a bus across the Bay Bridge (and Yerba Buena Tunnel) to reach San Francisco, or take BART through the Transbay Tube.

Calchaquí Valleys

Among the most visited tourist attractions of the valley are Tafí del Valle, Cafayate, Molinos, San Carlos, Santa María and Cachi at the western end of the valley, as well as the Los Cardones National Park, and the Los Sosa Provincial Park in Tucumán.

Castro Barros

Pedro Ignacio de Castro Barros, Argentine priest, member of the Congress of Tucuman

Daniel Tinte

He finally recorded his first CD, Northwest Piano, with twenty musicians from Salta, Jujuy, and Tucumán in January 2003.

Dogpatch, San Francisco

After Mexico gained independence from Spain in 1821, the Mexican government granted Potrero Nuevo to Francisco and Ramon de Haro - the 17-year-old twin sons of Don Francisco de Haro, then alcalde (mayor) of Yerba Buena (modern day San Francisco) in 1844.

French Argentine

In 1904, the governor of Tucumán founded a town carrying his name, Villa Nougués, as a replica of Boutx in Haute-Garonne, a French village where his family traces its roots back to.

Fundación Impulsar

Since its founding in Salta, eight other branches of the Fundación Impulsar have been established throughout the country, in Tartagal, Tucuman, Mendoza, Cordoba, Missiones, San Luis, Puerto San Julian and in Buenos Aires.

Gloria Lisé

The writer earned her law degree from the National University of Tucumán and her Ph.D in Legal and Social Sciences from the National University of Salta.

Gymnasium

Gymnasium UNT, high school of the National University of Tucumán, Argentina

Heinz Brücher

He refused, and after the second world war Brücher emigrated to Argentina and received there in 1948 a professorship in genetics and botany at University of Tucumán (Tucumán, Argentina), then in Caracas (Venezuela), Asunción (Paraguay) and later in Mendoza and Buenos Aires (Argentina).

Ismael Morandini

It was mid 2009, after the death of Sebastian Mancilla Olivares decides to write a new version of the play in which he had participated in only eighteen to be released in late 2010, but the middle of that year, Ismael had a car crash between Tucumán Catamarca, which ended his life, after an agonizing week.

José Ismael Morandini – Soria born on July 14, 1978 in Aguilares, Tucumán, have dinner in a high class family, only child of Francisca Soria, a prestigious lawyer and Dr. Samuel Morandini.

José Colombres

Colombres was elected by Catamarca Province to the Tucumán Congress in 1816, having served as a parish priest in Piedra Blanca in that province.

José Félix Aldao

After the capture of Paz, General Lamadrid took him in his retreat to Tucumán, and then deported him to Tarija in Bolivia, shortly before his defeat at the Battle of La Ciudadela.

José María Núñez Piossek

José María Núñez Piossek (born 6 December 1976 in Tucumán) is an Argentine rugby union footballer, currently playing for Scottish club Glasgow Warriors in the Magners League.

José Serrano

José Mariano Serrano (1788–1852), Bolivian member of the Congress of Tucumán

Juan Augusto Gómez

Juan Augusto Gómez Olmos (born 24 May 1976 in Tucumán) is an Argentina-born, naturalized-Mexican footballer.

La Banda, Argentina

Besides the access to National Route 9 through Santiago del Estero, the city is linked to Tucumán and to Buenos Aires by a weekly train service of the Ferrocarril General Bartolomé Mitre.

LAN Argentina

It is an affiliate of LAN Airlines and operates scheduled domestic services from Buenos Aires to Bariloche, Córdoba, Comodoro Rivadavia, El Calafate, Mendoza, Puerto Iguazú, Neuquén, Río Gallegos, Salta, San Juan, Tucumán and Ushuaia, and international services to Lima, Miami, Punta Cana, Santiago and Sao Paulo.

Macalla noctuipalpis

It was described by Dognin in 1908, and is known from Venezuela (including Maracay), Argentina (including Tucuman) and Brazil.

Manuel Saez

Originally from Tucumán, Argentina, Manuel Saez studied architecture at Argentina's National University of Tucumán.

Mateo Rosas de Oquendo

Notarial documentation shows him as engaged in the conquest of Tucumán, where he is named Accountant of Royal Finances and founds the city of La Rioja.

Maximiliano Asís

César Maximiliano Asís (born on 27 March 1987 in Tucumán, Argentina) is an Argentinian footballer currently playing for FC Inter Turku of the Veikkausliiga.

Nothoclavulina

The fungus was found by Singer in the late autumn of 1949, growing on rotting leaves and humus in subtropical forests dominated by Myrtaceae species, in the northwestern province of Tucumán in Argentina.

Otto Krause

Krause then began a career in the Argentine railways, working in the planning department of the Buenos Aires Western Railway in 1879 and later contributing to the lines' extension into then-remote Tucumán and Salta Provinces.

Riccardo Giovanelli

Born in Italy, he spent his childhood years in western Argentina (in Mendoza and Tucuman) but returned with his family to Italy when he was ready to enter university.

Rosario Norte Station

From Rosario Norte the line continued to the northwest, crossing several provinces of Argentina to reach Tucumán.

The latter company also has a weekly service to Tucumán and one to Córdoba.

Septiembre Musical

Septiembre Musical is an annual international arts festival that takes place in the province of Tucumán, Argentina.

Susana Trimarco

Susana Trimarco's daughter Marita (born María de los Ángeles) was kidnapped in Tucumán on April 3, 2002.

Susana Trimarco is the mother of Marita Veron, who disappeared on April 3, 2002, from Tucuman’s capital city of San Miguel de Tucumán in northwest Argentina, and is believed to have been kidnapped by a powerful human trafficking network.

Vicente Botín

He made a lot of reports and documentaries about the argentinian crisis caused by the fall of the President Fernando de la Rúa, the deaths caused by starvation of the childrem of Tucumán; and many others about the trial against the dictator Augusto Pinochet, the problems in Bolivia related to the coca crops; the new Brazil president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva...

Washington Allon Bartlett

Commodore John D. Sloat claimed California for the United States on July 7, 1846, and Commander John B. Montgomery of USS Portsmouth arrived at the coastal village of Yerba Buena on July 9, 1846 to take control of the area for the United States.

Yerba Buena Department

The department comprises the city of Yerba Buena and two "comunas rurales" (rural communities): Cevil Redondo and San Javier, with a joint population of 63,707 (2001).


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