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Juan Antonio Buschiazzo (October 29, 1845 – May 13, 1917) was an Italian-born Argentine architect and engineer who contributed to the modernisation of Buenos Aires, Argentina in the 1880s and to the construction of the city of La Plata, the new capital of the Buenos Aires Province.
1596–1597 Carlos Sámano y Quiñónes; 1597–1604 Diego Fernández de Velasco y Enríquez de Almansa; 1604–1612 Carlos de Luna y Arellano; 1612–1617 Antonio de Figueroa y Bravo; 1617–1619 Francisco Ramírez Briceño; 1619–1620 The Alcaldes of Mérida; 1620–1621 Arias de Losada y Taboada; 1621–1628 Diego de Cardenas y Balda
Juan Antonio Villacañas wrote thirty three books of poetry, spanning a wealth of themes and forms, from free verse (as early as the 1950s) to the sonnet, from stanzas and rhymes of his own invention to the lira: Juan Antonio Villacañas infused this classical form with new and surprising content, so much so that his liras are now known as "Liras juanantonianas".
The crown established New Spain as a viceroyalty in 1535, appointing as viceroy Antonio de Mendoza, an aristocrat loyal to the monarch rather than the conqueror Cortés. New Spain was the first of the viceroyalties that Spain created, the second being Peru in 1542, following the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire .
Juan María Antonio de Rivera (also spelled Ribera) was an 18th-century Spanish explorer who explored southwestern North America, including parts of the Southern Rocky Mountains.
The San Juan–Chama Project is a U.S. Bureau of Reclamation interbasin water transfer project located in the states of New Mexico and Colorado in the United States.The project consists of a series of tunnels and diversions that take water from the drainage basin of the San Juan River – a tributary of the Colorado River – to supplement water resources in the Rio Grande watershed.
Ramón Blanco Erenas Riera y Polo, 1st Marquess of Peña Plata (September 15, 1833 – April 4, 1906) was a Spanish brigadier and colonial administrator. Born in San Sebastián, he was sent to the Caribbean in 1858 and governed Cuba and Santo Domingo. In 1861, he returned to Spain but was then sent to the Philippines (1866–1871). [1]
The San Juan River (Spanish: Río San Juan), also known as El Desaguadero ("the drain"), is a 192-kilometre (119 mi) river that flows east out of Lake Nicaragua into the Caribbean Sea. A large section of the border between Nicaragua and Costa Rica runs on the southern bank of the river.