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The Desierto de los Leones National Park is located in the center of Mexico to the southwest of the Mexico's Basin. It is part of the Sierra de las Cruces geomorphological unit, which at the same time is part of the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt. The two mountain ranges form part of the topographic composition of the park.
Pompeyo del Valle (October 26, 1928 — August 23, 2018) [1] was a Honduran poet and journalist. De Valle was born in Tegucigalpa, Honduras on October 26, 1928. Son of Carlos del Valle y Soldevilla (from Peru) and Carmen Moncada Rivera, he was born and raised at his maternal grandmother's house in the neighborhood La Ronda, close to the Metropolitan Cathedral and the City Hall.
Cerro Ballena comprises a 20 m × 250 m (66 ft × 820 ft) quarry extending along the Pan-American Highway, though aerial maps indicate a larger extent of nearly 2 km (6,600 ft). The locality is about 9 m (30 ft) in thickness, composed of stratified fine to very fine-grained silty sandstones and sands that are assigned to the Bahía Inglesa ...
"Jornada del Muerto" is the title of a song that appears on Linkin Park's album A Thousand Suns, which is a concept album dealing with nuclear warfare. "Jornada del Muerto #20" is the title of a song that appears on Centro-matic's 2008 double album Dual Hawks. "Jornada del Muerto" is the title of a song that appears on Nadja's album Excision.
Because crossing Cerro de la Muerte took up to five days on foot, at the beginning of the twentieth century, three resting stations were created by Congressional Decree Number 45, signed on 5 August 1908. Between 1910 and 1912, the three resting stops, known as houses, were built; "División", "La Muerte" and "Ojo de Agua", at a cost of ...
Valle de Cuelgamuros viewed from the esplanade. The Valley of Cuelgamuros (Spanish: Valle de Cuelgamuros), commonly known as the Valley of the Fallen (Spanish: Valle de los Caídos), is a monument in the Sierra de Guadarrama, near Madrid. The valley contains a Catholic basilica and a monumental memorial in the municipality of San Lorenzo de El ...
Nevado de Toluca (Spanish: [neˈβaðo ðe toˈluka] ⓘ) is a stratovolcano in central Mexico, located about 80 kilometres (50 mi) west of Mexico City near the city of Toluca. It is the fourth highest of Mexico's peaks, after Pico de Orizaba, Popocatépetl and Iztaccíhuatl. The volcano and the area around it is now a national park.
Valle de la Luna is a part of the Reserva Nacional los Flamencos and was declared a Nature Sanctuary in 1982 for its natural environment and strange lunar landscape, from which its name is derived. [1] The Atacama desert is also considered one of the driest places on earth, as some areas have not received a single drop of rain in hundreds of ...