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El Durazno is a Chilean village located in Las Cabras commune, O'Higgins Region southeast of Graneros. [1] [2] References This page was last edited on 6 August ...
Durazno (Spanish for 'Peach'), also known in English as Apricot, is a documentary film directed by Yashira Jordan. [2] The film utilized crowd-funding and ecological production [ clarification needed ] , [ 3 ] [ 4 ] and is one of the first of its type to be made in Bolivia and Argentina .
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Arturo "El Negro" Durazo Moreno (1924 – 5 August 2000) was the Chief of Police in Mexico City for six years, from 1976 to 1982. He was arrested in 1984 and incarcerated on multiple counts of corruption, extortion, tax evasion, smuggling and possession of illegal weapons and cocaine trade kickbacks.
The village is located 16 kilometres (9.9 mi) into a secondary road that splits off Route 6 in a westward direction at about 78 kilometres (48 mi) north of Sarandí del Yí.
The town was founded on 12 October 1821, under the name of San Pedro del Durazno, as a homage to Brazilian Emperor Pedro I, at a time when the territory of present-day Uruguay had been annexed to Brazil as the Cisplatine Province. It had acquired the status of villa (town) before the independence of Uruguay.
In 1840, 500 acres of land was taken from the Peach Point Plantation to create the Durazno Plantation. [3] "Durazno" is Spanish for peach. The new plantation was given to William Joel Bryan (1815–1903) as dowry when he married Lavinia Perry in 1840. [3] [4] [5] The people he enslaved were forced to grow cotton and raise cattle.
For this, the town of San Pedro del Durazno was founded, named after the regent of Brazil. In 1828 the department named "Entre Ríos Yí y Negro" was formed, which was soon after renamed to Durazno. When the First Constitution of Uruguay was signed in 1830, Durazno was one of the nine original departments of the Republic.