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Rancho Real de los Águilas (also "Rancho Real de las Águilas" or "Rancho Real de los Aquilas") was a 31,052-acre (125.66 km 2) Mexican land grant in present day San Benito County, California given in 1844 by Governor Manuel Micheltorena to Francisco Arias and Saturnino Carriaga. [1] The name means "rancho royal of the eagles".
The Puerto de Aguilas, close to the centre of the city, is flanked on its western side by a large rocky hill. On its top sits the Castillo de San Juan de las Águilas castle, built in the 18th century on the site of a much older Carthaginian fortification.
Baseball has been played in Mexicali since 1914 and several teams have represented the city, the current incarnation of the Águilas was established in 1967 and made its debut in the Mexican Pacific League on 12 October 1976.
Black Eagles (Spanish: Águilas Negras) was a term describing a series of Colombian drug trafficking, right-wing, counter-revolutionary, paramilitary organizations made up of new and preexisting paramilitary forces, that emerged from the failures of the demobilization process between 2004 and 2006, which aimed to disarm the United Self-Defense Units of Colombia (AUC).
Estadio Nido de los Aguilas, is a stadium in Mexicali, Mexico. It is primarily used for baseball and has a capacity of 20,000 seated spectators. It serves as the home stadium for the Águilas de Mexicali of the Mexican Pacific League .
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Águilas is a municipality in Spain.. Águilas may also refer to: . Águilas Blancas, a Mexican gridiron football team; Águilas CF, a defunct Spanish football team; Águilas Cibaeñas, a Dominican baseball team
He was a player, manager, executive and umpire before beginning his career as a sportswriter. He wrote La historia del Béisbol en el Zulia which is considered the bible of baseball in the Zulia state. The 2006–2007 baseball season in Venezuela, will be played on his memory and the season carries his name.