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unusual facts about Zamora-Chinchipe Province


Zamora-Chinchipe Province

Fifty years after their arrival, the Spanish were driven from the city by the Shuar revolt.


Ana Belen Bernardo Zamora

Ana Belen Bernardo Zamora (born March 20, 1976 in Aviles) is an S10 swimmer from Spain.

Asturian language

Western Asturian, is a linguistic variety in Western Asturian lands between the rivers Navia and Nalón, and western provinces of León, where is called Leonese as endonym, Zamora and Salamanca.

Baltasar Lobo

The Museo Baltasar Lobo (museum) is in the city of Zamora, Spain near his birthplace.

Benalup-Casas Viejas revolution

The massacre led to national outrage and there was considerable debate about whether the orders to kill had or had not been issued by the President of the Second Spanish Republic, Niceto Alcalá-Zamora.

Brazilians of Spanish descent

In his genealogical account of the settling of São Paulo, Pedro Taques de Almeida Paes Leme, also mentions the three Rendon brothers, Juan Matheus Rendon, Francisco Rendon de Quebedo and Pedro Matheus Rendon Cabeza de Vaca, as well as Diogo Lara, form Zamora.

Bulacan–Rizal–Manila–Cavite Regional Expressway

This expressway will be named Padre Jacinto Zamora Super Highway after Father Jacinto Zamora, one of the three martyr priests executed in Bagumbayan (now Rizal Park) in Manila during the Spanish Colonical Period.

Calva

It has roots going back to pre-Roman times, being developed by the Celtiberians who lived in the modern-day provinces of Ávila, Salamanca, and Zamora.

Cathedral of Our Lady of Guadalupe

After many fits and starts, in 1988 His Excellency Josè E. Jiménez Robles, eighth bishop of Zamora, was able to plan for restarting construction and in 1989, it was decided to dedicate the building to Our Lady of Guadalupe.

Club Deportivo Zamora

A playoff tournament was organized with 2 clubs from the first division along with the 11 and 12 place clubs from the first division clubs: Cuautla FC, Zamora, Querétaro, Atlante and Marte.

County of Monzón

Historian Justo Pérez de Urbel's argument that in 985 Monzón was annexed by the Banu Gómez clan that ruled the Saldaña and Carrión was based on a document of 995 that names them as the only rulers between Zamora and Castile, without specifying the boundaries of the latter.

Darío Figueroa

Darío Damián Figueroa (born 13 February 1978 in San Rafael, Mendoza) is an Argentine football midfielder who plays for Zamora of Venezuela.

Democratic and Popular Union

In April, the small rented plane in which Paz Zamora and a delegation of UDP politicians were traveling crashed in the Altiplano near La Paz, with the resulting death of all on board except the Vice-Presidential candidate.

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-).

Friends of the Mission Clinic of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Inc.

Founded in 2001 by ordained Catholic priest Father Georg Nigsch of Austria, the Mission Clinic is part of the social ministry of the Catholic Church of Zamora, Ecuador.

George Musey

Musey was consecrated to the episcopate on April 1, 1982 in Acapulco, Mexico, by traditionalist bishops Moises Carmona and Adolfo Zamora.

Javier Lozano Barragán

Born in Toluca, State of México, Lozano Barragán trained as a priest in Zamora, Michoacán, and at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, where he earned a doctorate in theology and was ordained in 1955.

Jesús Lugo

He scored a 79th minute winner (2–1) against Zamora away from home on 11 August 2010, that made it 8 goals in 7 games for the attacking midfielder, drawing a blank in his next two games he went on to score against Caroní in a 2–0 win on 12 September 2010,and again on 3 October 2010 against Anzoátegui (4–2 away win).

José de Jesús Vera

In 2008, Vera became a manager, starting with Estudiantes de Mérida, club in where he debuted as footballer for then arrive to Deportivo Táchira after of achieve the Primera División honour with Zamora during the Torneo de Clausura 2011.

José Leite de Vasconcelos

In 1910 Miuçalhas gallegas was published; drawing attention to various aspects of Galician studies, it contained a brief discourse on the linguistic boundary between Fala and Galician, corresponding to Ribadavia, Ferreiros and San Miguel de Lobios in Ourense, much of Hermisende and Zamora—although the last of these is, strictly speaking, a separated or transmontane Fala.

Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla

He is to be distinguished from a younger Juan de Padilla, who was maestro de capilla at Zamora, Spain (1661-1663), and Toledo (1663-1673).

Leonardo Legaspi

Leonardo Zamora Legazpi, O.P. (born in Meycauayan, Philippines, 25 November 1935) is currently the Archbishop Emeritus of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Caceres, and was the former President of the Catholic Bishop's Conference of the Philippines (1988–1991).

Longchamps, Buenos Aires

The city owes its name to the race track of the same name located on the Route des Tribunes in the Bois de Boulogne at Paris, France, in which the Sociedad Hípica de Lomas de Zamora (Hipic Society of Lomas de Zamora) inspired to name the city's racecourse.

Los Rodríguez

On 29 November 2007, Daniel Zamora (the last bass guitar player of the band) committed suicide in his hometown Palafrugell.

Marvão

The migration of the Celtici is considered part of a third or fourth wave of Celts in the 4th century BCE: this migration occurred across modern-day Aragon and into modern-day Extremadura and Alentejo, displacing the proto-Celt Lusitanians who dominated the lands north of the Tagus, and skirting the Vettones lands that stretched from Zamora to Castelo Branco.

Naya o La Chapetona

In 2004 the municipality of Zamora, Ecuador constructed, and placed in the center of town, a monument of "Naya o la Chapetona" the protagonist of the novel of the same name.

Niceto Alcalá-Zamora

His body was returned to Spain in 1979, and he was interred in Madrid's Cementerio de la Almudena.

Pablo Morillo

Pablo Morillo y Morillo, Count of Cartagena and Marquess of La Puerta, aka El Pacificador (The Pacifier) (Fuentesecas, Zamora, Spain, May 5, 1775 – Barèges, France, July 27, 1837) was a Spanish general.

Patriarchate of Lisbon

#Martinho de Zamora (1380-1383) - named bishop of Lisbon (and Cardinal in 1383) by Antipope Clement VII (pope in Avignon)

Pedralba de la Pradería

Pedralba de la Pradería is located in the northwest of the Province of Zamora and belongs to the shire of Sanabria.

Pedro Henriquez de Acevedo, Count of Fuentes

Pedro Henriquez d'Azevedo y Alvarez de Toledo, Count of Fuentes de Valdepero (Zamora, Spain, 1525 – Milan, Italy, 22 July 1610, aged 85) was a Spanish general and statesman.

Province of Zamora

The present-day province of Zamora province was one of three provinces formed from the former Kingdom of León in 1833, when Spain was re-organised into 49 provinces.

Ramon Zamora

Zamora's most popular stock character in the show was a military-clad figure that bore an unmistakable physical resemblance to Adolf Hitler, who spoke in bastardized German and spouted catchphrases such as "Isprakenheit".

Raza Unida Party

Its original thirteen members included Alfredo Zamora, Jr., the first Chicano Mayor of Cotulla, Texas, who unseated a member of the Cotulla family.

Rius

Eduardo del Río (born June 20, 1934, and better known by his pen name Rius) is a Mexican intellectual, political cartoonist, and writer born in Zamora, Michoacán.

Rubén Arocha

Rubén Darío Arocha Hernández (born 21 April 1987 in Caracas) is a Venezuelan football player currently playing for Atlético Venezuela, playing before at Zamora.

San Francisco River

In Ecuador, the Río San Francisco is a tributary of the Zamora River in Zamora-Chinchipe province.

San Salvador de Oña

Count García Sánchez of Castile (1009-1028), their son, the last independent Count of Castile, assassinated in Zamora

Santa Cruz de Abranes

Santa Cruz de Abranes (Santa Cruz d'Abranes in the vernacular Leonese language) is a Spanish village in the municipality of Pedralba de la Pradería (Zamora, Castile and León) and is situated on the Spanish-Portuguese border.

Sayaguesa Cattle

The Sayaguesa Cattle, also called Zamorana Cattle, is an ancient, aurochs-like cattle breed from Sayago in the province of Zamora in the Spanish autonomous community of Castile and León.

Siege of Cuautla

A few days later, 7,000 reinforcement loyalists troops arrived under the command of Ciriaco del Llano and José Gabriel de Armijo from Asturias, Guanajuato, Lovera, San Luis Potosí, Zamora and Tulancingo.

Siglo Veintiuno

In 1995, its staff won the International Press Freedom Awards of the Committee to Protect Journalists, and Zamora won several individual awards for his work with the paper.

In 1995, Zamora and the Siglo Veintiuno staff won International Press Freedom Awards from the Committee to Protect Journalists, which recognize courage in defending press freedom despite facing attacks, threats, or imprisonment.

Solís Uprising

On 2 April 1846 the Zamora Regiment stationed in the provincial capital of Lugo rebelled, led by Colonel Miguel Solís y Cuetos.

Vicenç Mateu Zamora

Viçenc Mateu Zamora (born 3 December 1961, Les Escaldes) is an Andorran diplomat.

Zamora, Michoacán

During this time many of the city's elite built new homes largely inspired by Victorian and Châteauesque architectural styles.

Zamora, Spain

The Church of San Pedro de la Nave, (village of El Campillo – 12 km distant) was founded in the 7th century, rebuilt in the 12th century, and is one of the three best-preserved Visigothic churches in all of Spain.


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