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  2. Roma, Texas - Wikipedia

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    Roma is a city in Starr County, Texas, United States.Its population was 11,561 at the 2020 census.The city is located along the Rio Grande, across from Ciudad Miguel Alemán in Tamaulipas, Mexico.

  3. Paititi - Wikipedia

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    It allegedly lies east of the Andes, hidden somewhere within the remote rainforests of southeast Peru, northern Bolivia or northwest Brazil. The Paititi legend in Peru revolves around the story of the culture-hero Inkarri , who, after he had founded Q'ero and Cusco , retreated toward the jungles of Pantiacolla to live out the rest of his days ...

  4. Roma Historic District - Wikipedia

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    Northwestern Zone The northwestern zone is associated with the Arroyo de los Negros, the location of a secondary ferry crossing on the Rio Grande. [ 3 ] The Roma Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972 [ 1 ] and was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1993. [ 2 ]

  5. Fronton Island - Wikipedia

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    Fronton Island was formed between 1852 and 1926 when the Rio Grande cut a new channel to the south, which became the main channel by 1955. [1]As of 1959, Fronton Island was acknowledged as Mexican territory by both the Mexico and United States sections of the International Boundary and Water Commission (IBWC), as the channel that formed the island had cut into Mexican territory to the south. [1]

  6. Corruption in Peru - Wikipedia

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    On Transparency International's 2023 Corruption Perceptions Index, Peru scored 33 on a scale from 0 ("highly corrupt") to 100 ("very clean"). When ranked by score, Peru ranked 121st among the 180 countries in the Index, where the country ranked first is perceived to have the most honest public sector. [ 1 ]

  7. Provinces of Peru - Wikipedia

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    Map of the Peruvian provinces. The provinces of Peru (Spanish: provincias) are the second-level administrative subdivisions of the country. They are divided into districts (Spanish: distritos). There are 196 provinces in Peru, grouped into 25 regions, except for Lima Province which does not belong to any region. This makes an average of seven ...

  8. List of red-light districts - Wikipedia

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    [306] [307] The location of the informative documentary Hookers on Davie. [306] Diminished by the 1983 injunction formed by the Concerned Residents of the West End (CROWE) which forcefully displaced sex workers out of the West End. [305] Downtown Eastside: An unlisted district in Vancouver where workers face routine violence and harassment. [308]

  9. National personification - Wikipedia

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    A national personification is an anthropomorphic personification of a state or the people(s) it inhabits. It may appear in political cartoons and propaganda . Some personifications in the Western world often took the Latin name of the ancient Roman province .