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Vivo is a live album released by Puerto Rican singer Vico C released on June 5, 2001, by EMI Latin. It offers a collection of Vico C's greatest hits recorded entirely live in a concert held at the Luis Muñoz Marín Amphitheater in Hato Rey recorded in 1999.
A presidio (jail, fortification) [1] was a fortified base established by the Spanish Empire mainly between the 16th and 18th centuries in areas under their control or ...
Two days later a Spanish ship with supplies and reinforcements, including a second Jesuit priest, Francisco María Piccolo. arrived and, with the help of native workers paid with food, the Spaniards quickly erected a walled fortress called the Real Presidio de Loreto (Royal Fort of Loreto) that became the mission headquarters.
Presidio/Unit Strength; Nueva Vizcaya: Casas Grandes: 50 San Francisco de Conchos: 50 San Pedro del Gallo: 45 Nuestra Señora del Pasaje de Cuencame: 45 Cerro Gordo: 23 Field companies of Parral and Durango: 45 Nuevo México: El Paso: 50 Santa Fe: 100 Sonora: Flying company: 50 Nuevo León: Cerralvo: 10 Caldereta: 10 Coahuila: San Francisco: 25 ...
El Orcoquisac Archeological District is a registered U.S. historic site located near Galveston Bay in present-day Wallisville, Texas.The site preserves an important Spanish presidio and trading center as well as an important settlement for the Akokisa and Bidai tribes that once inhabited the area.
The institution opened in 1933 [2] under the government of James R. Beverley, and came to substitute the Puerto Rico Prison established by Spaniards in the 19th century.. On April 17, 1991, a spectacular escape occurred which involved landing a helicopter in the prison, and some inmates escaped.
Castilian (castellano), that is, Spanish, is the native language of the Castilians.Its origin is traditionally ascribed to an area south of the Cordillera Cantábrica, including the upper Ebro valley, in northern Spain, around the 8th and 9th centuries; however, the first written standard was developed in the 13th century in the southern city of Toledo.
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