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Humberstone and Santa Laura Saltpeter Works are two former saltpeter refineries that have been declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site. La Noria, a deserted mining town in the Atacama Desert. The infamous Atacama skeleton was found at La Noria. [114] Port Famine (Spanish: Puerto Hambre) is possibly Chile's oldest ghost town.
The norias of Hama on the Orontes River in Syria ().. A noria (Arabic: ناعورة, nā‘ūra, plural نواعير nawāʿīr, from Syriac: ܢܥܘܪܐ, nā‘orā, lit. "growler") is a hydropowered scoop wheel used to lift water into a small aqueduct, either for the purpose of irrigation or to supply water to cities and villages.
The town of La Noria is located in this same part of the mountain, extending in a northwesterly direction at 300 and 500 meters above sea level. On its western side, the Zapote Brook begins. The Sierra de San Marcos is located in the north at 50 to 700 meters above sea level.
The Albolafia's noria today. The Albolafia, also known as the Molino de la Albolafia in Spanish ('the Albolafia's mill'), is a medieval noria (or waterwheel) on the Guadalquivir River in the historic center of Córdoba, Spain. It is one of several historic watermills of Cordoba and is located close to the Roman Bridge and to the Christian Alcazar.
For nearly 500 years, the Noria al-Muhammadiya was the tallest waterwheel in the world. In 1854 it was surpassed by the Laxey Wheel, a mine-pumping waterwheel on the Isle of Man, an island between England and Ireland. [20] [21] The Laxey Wheel is only marginally taller, with a diameter of 22.1 metres (73 feet). [20]
Ata is the common name given to the 6-inch (15 cm) long skeletal remains of a human fetus [1] [2] found in 2003 in the ghost town of La Noria, in the Atacama Desert of Chile. DNA analysis done in 2018 on the premature human fetus identified unusual mutations associated with dwarfism and scoliosis, though these findings were later disputed. The ...
Dymaxion map of the world with the 30 largest countries and territories by area. This is a list of the world's countries and their dependencies, ranked by total area, including land and water. This list includes entries that are not limited to those in the ISO 3166-1 standard, which covers sovereign states and dependent territories.
This is a list of the UNESCO World Heritage Sites around the world by year of inscription, selected during the annual sessions of the World Heritage Committee. [1] [2] The first World Heritage Site in the list is the Galápagos Islands. [3]