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The town is named for Leona Vicario the wife of Mexican Independence figure Andrés Quintana Roo. Its population was 6,791 inhabitants at the 2020 census. [1] It is located in the western part of the municipality and lies at an elevation of 10 metres (33 ft) above sea level. Leona Vicario railway station is just outside the town.
Vicario has been given the title "Distinguished and Beloved Mother of the Homeland" by the Congress of the Union. Her name is inscribed in gold in the Mural of Honor in the lower house of the Mexican Congress. 2020 was declared the "Year of Leona Vicario, Benemérita (Praiseworthy) Madre (Mother) de la Patria (of the Motherland). [2]
Leona Vicario station (named for Leona Vicario, a figure in the Mexican War of Independence) is a train station in the municipality of Puerto Morelos, Quintana Roo, just outside the town of Leona Vicario. The station connects with and serves local transportation and tourism in the Holbox area.
The Leona Tate Foundation for Change and the Plessy & Ferguson Foundation are planned to create a memorial site to remember the brave actions of the four brave 6-year-old girls, that was scheduled to open on November 14, 2012. [10] November 14, 2020, marked the 60th anniversary of school desegregation.
Leona Tyler was born in Chetek, Wisconsin on May 10, 1906. Her father, Leon M. Tyler was an accountant and house restoration contractor and her mother, Bessie J. Carver Tyler managed the home. Both her parents graduated high school, but neither attended college. She graduated from high school at the age of fifteen.
Leona Josefa Florentino (19 April 1849 – 4 October 1884) was a Filipina foundational poet, [1] dramatist, satirist, and playwright who wrote and poetically spoke in Ilocano, her mother tongue, and Spanish, the lingua franca of her era.
La Leona may refer to: Parque La Leona, a park in Honduras; La Leona River, a river in Argentina; La Leona, a 1964 Argentine film; La Leona (Argentine TV series), an Argentine telenovela that aired in 2016; La Leona (Mexican TV series), a telenovela that aired in 1961; La Leona, Texas, a small settlement in Texas, USA
Leona is a 2018 Mexican drama film and the feature film directorial debut of Isaac Cherem. It was written by Cherem and Naian González Norvind . González Norvind also stars as the protagonist as a young Jewish woman in Mexico City that falls for a non-Jewish man, Iván (Christian Vazquez).