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Río Negro Municipality


The Río Negro Municipality is one of the seven municipalities (municipios) that makes up the southern Venezuelan state of Amazonas and, according to the 2011 census by the National Institute of Statistics of Venezuela, the municipality has a population of 2,300.The town of San Carlos de Río Negro is the shire town of the Río Negro Municipality. The town of San Carlos de Río Negro was founded in 1759 around a mounted camp by the expedition captained by José Solano that moved to that area in the extent of the works of exploration of the
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Concepción, Intibucá


municipality is surrounded by hills. The topography of Concepción an inclined plane from North to South to the shore of Río Negro (the Black River). The average elevation of the municipality is above sea level. Water resources include Río Negro and three smaller rivers — the San Juan, Santiago, and San Jerónimo — which drain into Río Negro. Rio Negro, also known locally as the Guarajambala, serves as the dividing line with the department of Lempira. Río Negro forms the Southern boundary of the municipality. Río Negro begins
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Toro Negro State Forest


, Río Inabón, Río Blanco, Río Anón and Río Prieto), and three that flow north (Río Saliente, Río Toro Negro, and Río Matrullas) from the forest. The Matrullas and Guineo reservoirs are also part of the forest. Río Toro Negro - after which the forest is named - separates the municipalities of Ciales and Orocovis; it also forms Lago El Guineo. The forest's other lake, Lago Matrullas, is accessible via Puerto Rico Highway 564, which can be accessed via PR-143, in the municipality
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Río Negro Municipality


Alexander von Humboldt and Aimé Bonpland, constituting the most southern point of their (périplo) for the Amazon Basin. The Río Negro Municipality, according to a 2007 population estimate by the National Institute of Statistics of Venezuela, has a population of 2,660 (up from 2,314 in 2000). This amounts to 1.9% of the state's population. The municipality's population density is . The mayor of the Río Negro Municipality is Luis Alirio Avaristo, elected on October 31, 2004 with 37% of the vote. Avaristo had
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San Carlos de Río Negro


San Carlos de Río Negro is a town in Venezuela's Amazonas State. San Carlos de Río Negro is a small city of about 1200 inhabitants in the Venezuelan state of Amazonas. It serves as the administrative capital of the municipal district of Río Negro, inhabited primarily by Amerind people, in particular the Yanomami and Baniwa peoples. It sits on the opposite side of the Rio Negro from the Colombian city of San Felipe. The city of San Carlos de Río Negro was founded in 1759 as a camp set up by the expedition
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and most important of the rivers draining westward is the Río Negro, which crosses the entire country from northeast to west before emptying into the Río Uruguay. A dam on the Río Negro at Paso de los Toros has created a reservoir—the Embalse del Río Negro—that is the largest artificial lake in South America. The Río Negro's principal tributary and the country's second most important river is the Yí River (Río Yí). The rivers flowing east to the Atlantic are generally shallower and have more variable flow than
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Río Colorado, Río Negro


Río Colorado is a town and municipality in the Río Negro Province of Argentina. It is the administrative centre of the Pichi Mahuida Department. According to the , the municipality 13,828 inhabitants, an increase of 0.12% compared to the which recorded a population of 12,900. Río Colorado has a semi-arid climate (Köppen climate classification "BSk"). Winters are cool with a July mean of , with temperatures that frequently drop below and occasionally below . Cloudy days are common during winter, averaging 7-8 days from June
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Balneario El Cóndor


Balneario El Cóndor is a village and municipality in Río Negro Province in Argentina. It is located on the coast of the Río Negro Province, Argentina, on the south bank of the mouth of the Negro River in the Argentine Sea. El Cóndor is located on km 31 of Provincial Route 1 in Río Negro, on the route that begins in the provincial capital, Viedma. El Balneario is the first in a succession of beaches over 150 km in length. Following Provincial Route 1, it is located on the Camino de
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Río Negro, Chile


in urban areas and 8,149 (55.3%) in rural areas. The population fell by 8.1% (1294 persons) between the 1992 and 2002 censuses. As a commune, Río Negro is a third-level administrative division of Chile administered by a municipal council, headed by an alcalde who is directly elected every four years. The 2008-2012 alcalde is Carlos Schwalm Urzúa (RN). The council has the following members: Within the electoral divisions of Chile, Río Negro is represented in the Chamber of Deputies by
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Río Negro (Uruguay)


The Río Negro (, "Black River") is the most important river in Uruguay. It originates in the southern highlands of Brazil, just east of Bagé, and flows west across the entire width of Uruguay to the Uruguay River. The course of the Río Negro across Uruguay effectively divides the south of the country from the north. The Río Negro's principals tributaries are Yí River and Tacuarembó River. The river is dammed near Paso de los Toros, creating the Rincón del Bonete Reservoir, also called the Gabriel Terra
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Barda del Medio


Barda del Medio is a village and municipality in Río Negro Province in Argentina. It is located northwest of the province of Río Negro, in the General Roca department, to the north of Patagonia. The population of Barda del Medio is 6.5 km from the municipality of Contralmirante Cordero, along National Route 151, and is under its jurisdiction. Barda del Medio is located on the left bank of the Neuquén River, opposite the Neuquén village of Vista Alegre. Dique Ballester and Isla de Manzano are located a few meters from the
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Valcheta


Valcheta is a village and municipality in Río Negro Province in Argentina, seat of government of Valcheta Department. Valcheta is one of the oldest settlements in Río Negro Province. On 5 October 1833, an advance column of the left-flank Rosa's Desert Campaign, under Sergeant Major Leandro Ibáñez, fought a skirmish with a native tribe under Cayupán who was camped near the local creek. Before that time, the locality was called "río Chiquito" (Spanish "for small river") and that is how it was shown
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Pomona, Río Negro


Pomona is a small village on the island of Choele Choel in Río Negro Province, in Argentina. It was already a crossing point for the Negro River to the Choele Choel Island in 1890, when it was known as "Paso Peñalva". It was formally founded in 1933 and named after the goddess Pomona because of its gardens. Provincial Primary School #7 is located there, containing an agrotechnic school and a municipal library. In the Pomona area, there are farms that cultivate mainly pears and apples, but also peaches
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Comahue


Comahue is a sub-region of Argentina slightly to the south of the country's centre that covers the northern part of Argentine Patagonia and includes the provinces of Neuquén and Río Negro. Some also include La Pampa Province and the Patagones Partido at the southern tip of Buenos Aires Province. The region's social and economical centre is located at the point where the Limay and Neuquén rivers join into the Río Negro. This fertile, orchard-lined area is known as the "Alto Valle del Río Negro" and the main cities
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Río Negro Municipality


limits between the Crowns of Portugal and Spain requested by the Treaty of Madrid. José Solano set up his exploration base in that place, in the margins of the Rio Negro, and there he settled with the few men that had survived the ascent along the Orinoco River, since most, including the famous Swedish botanist Pehr Löfling that accompanied the expedition, they had succumbed prey of the tropical diseases, especially the yellow fever. San Carlos de Río Negro was visited from May 7 to May 10, 1800 for the expedition of
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Guaraque Municipality


Río Negro Municipalities. In 1992, as a result of the modification of the territorial law, the current municipal parishes were created. The most popular celebration of the municipality are that of Santa Barbara that take place from November 23 until January 4. This is a mountainous region located in the Venezuelan Andes and part of the municipality is protected by the Páramos Batallón and La Negra national parks. The Negro, Guaraque, and El Molino rivers are the municipality's main bodies of water which have formed a valley at 1,500 meters above
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Durazno Department


Durazno is a department of Uruguay. Its capital is Durazno. Its name means ""peach"" in Spanish, referring to the department's peaches and its status as an agricultural breadbasket. It is located in the centre of the country, and is bounded to the north by the Río Negro and the Río Yi to the South. To its north are the departments of Río Negro and Tacuarembó, to it southeast the departments of Treinta y Tres, to its south the departments of Flores and Florida, while on its
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ELAM 5 Combate Ceja del Negro


ELAM 5 Combate Ceja del Negro is a Cuban Polyclinic and Faculty of Medical Sciences located in the municipality of Sandino, Pinar del Río Province, Cuba. The school is one of several faculties of its kind falling under the jurisdiction of the Cuban- Venezuelan initiative and new program to create Latin American doctors (nueva programma de formation de medicos latinoamericano). ELAM 5 presently houses approximately 390 students from Guyana, the only Anglophone country in South America. Most of the students were received on the 22–23 November 2006, and during September 2008
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Viedma, Río Negro


, the town decided to split with the Río Negro as their border. With the Conquest of the Desert, the city became the capital of all the Argentine Patagonia, and later, when it was divided in further smaller territories, the capital of the Río Negro Territory. Alvaro Barros, the first governor of Río Negro, changed the name of the city to Viedma, in 1879. During severe flooding in 1900, the capital of Río Negro was temporary moved to Choele Choel, but it was quickly restored to Viedma.
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Efraín Ríos Montt


. In March 2004, a court order forbade Ríos Montt from leaving the country to see if he was eligible for trial on charges related to "jueves negro" and the death of Ramírez. On November 20, 2004, Ríos Montt had to ask permission to travel to his country home for the wedding of his daughter Zury Ríos Montt, to U.S. Representative Jerry Weller (a Republican from Illinois). But Ríos Montt had not at this point been charged with any crime and, on January 31, 2006, manslaughter charges
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Luis Falcó


years. Upon the return of democracy in 1983, Falcó was appointed Government Secretary for the General Roca municipality. In 1985 he became a General Roca councillor. From 1991 he served for ten years on the Río Negro provincial legislature, becoming first Vice President of the body. He became leader of the Río Negro UCR in 2000. Falcó was elected to the Senate at the head of the UCR list in 2001. He was a prolific legislator, introducing dozens of new laws. In 2004 he introduced more new projects than any
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Río Negro Department


time, Paysandú Department included all the territory north of the Río Negro, which included the current departments of Artigas, Rivera, Tacuarembó, Salto, Paysandú and Río Negro. On 17 June 1837 a new division of Uruguay was made and this territory was divided in three parts. In the new division, Paysandú Department also included the current department of Río Negro, until it was split from it in 1868. The Río Negro flows along the southern border of the department, forming the natural border with the departments of Durazno to
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Río Negro massacres


lives of the people of Río Negro, and the people living on the riverbanks Chixoy, changed radically with the construction of the hydro-Quixal Pueblo Viejo. An inhabitant of the region recognized: "In the community before we were safe and in peace; but after the construction of the dam many problems emerged”. In 1975 the National Electrification Institute (INDE) presented the project for the construction of a hydropower dam in the river basin Chixoy to solve the problem of electricity in the country, under the auspices of the
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better lands than those that would be flooded. The community of Río Negro did not accept the proposals of the State. The authorities tried to settle residents of Río Negro in Pacux, an arid place, and houses that broke its scheme cultural life. The peasants resisted leaving their lands. A person who gave testimony said that Río Negro "was the model community of the area, with the best organization, was the most prosperous in the region, and that was one of the reasons why this community was not as easy
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Efraín Ríos Montt


manipulation and, in a radio address, called on his followers to take to the streets to protest this decision. On July 24, in a day known as "jueves negro" (black Thursday) thousands of masked FRG supporters invaded the streets of Guatemala City armed with machetes, clubs and guns. They had been bussed in from all over the country by the FRG amidst claims that people working in FRG-controlled municipalities were being blackmailed with being sacked if they did not attend the demonstration. The demonstrators blocked traffic,
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Piedra del Cocuy


Piedra del Cocuy ("from Spanish: Cocuy Rock"; "Portuguese: Pedra do Cucuí") is a natural monument in Venezuela, located near the triple border of the country with Brazil and Colombia in the limits of the Amazon and the Orinoco Basins. Piedra del Cocuy is an inselberg made of granitic rock, its peak stands at c. 450 m a.s.l. Administratively Piedra del Cocuy is located in the municipality of Río Negro in the Amazonas State in Venezuela. The triple border is situated 2 km to the west on
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Río Negro massacres


unofficial translation from that part of the report.Full report in Spanish I. Background: The Pueblo Viejo-Quixal hydroelectric project and resistance from members of the community of Río Negro to be evicted from their land The community of Río Negro, settled on the banks of the river Chixoy, in the town of Rabinal, Baja Verapaz department, lived on agriculture, fishing and the exchange of goods with the neighboring community of Xococ. In the 1970s, Río Negro had a population of about 800 people, all indigenous Achís. The
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happened on May 5. The reaction of the military was to accuse them of guerrillas and threaten them with death. An eyewitness says that the captain told them that the peasants of Río Negro "were already trained by the guerrillas. We were told to bring weapons because if not, they were going to make ash to Río Negro". The military never found the weapons they were allegedly looking for. While this was happening at Río Negro, the community of Xococ was also being subjected to military repression. Collective testimony given
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Río Inabón


found at the headwaters of Río Inabón and at the Toro Negro State Forest has been identified by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service as an endangered species. The flow of water in the river is controlled by the floodgates at Toa Vaca Lake, located in the municipality of Villalba. Río Inabon has a discharge of 15,000 ft/s. The Inabón has been known to overflow easily in times of heavy rains. Several rescues have taken place when the river has increased its level rapidly, a phenomenon known as flash flood. Due
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lived in the mountains and every so often visiting the community. In 1980 the hydroelectric project was still in force and the residents of Río Negro continued to resist abandoning their lands. II. The facts: the massacres and elimination of the community On March 5, 1980 two residents of Río Negro who were in Pueblo Viejo were accused of stealing beans from the dining rooms of the dam workers. They were pursued by two soldiers and an officer of the Policia Militar Ambulante (PMA). Upon arrival at Río Negro, the
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LGBT rights in Argentina


Presse" reported that Aníbal Fernández called for the impeachment of the judges that made that decision, describing it as "one of the biggest disgraces we've ever seen in this country". In 2005, following the institution of civil unions in the province Río Negro and the city of Buenos Aires, a judge ordered prison authorities in the Córdoba Province to allow conjugal visits between gay prisoners and their partners. The laws approving civil unions for same-sex couples in both the city of Buenos Aires and the Río Negro Province were
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Chixoy River


The Chixoy River or Río Negro is a river in Guatemala. The river is called Río Negro from its sources in the highlands of Huehuetenango and El Quiché until it reaches the Chixoy hydroelectric dam (located at ), where the Río Salamá and Rio Carchela converge with the Río Negro. After the Chixoy dam, the river is called Río Chixoy and flows northwards, marking the departmental limits between Alta Verapaz and El Quiché, until it reaches the border with Mexico. From there on it continues along the border for another as the
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Colorado Basin, Argentina


provided by the Early Paleocene Pedro Luro Formation. The Colorado Basin stretches across an approximate area of with about onshore, underlying the southernmost Buenos Aires Province and the southeasternmost Río Negro Province. Cities inside the basin are Bahía Blanca and Carmen de Patagones in Buenos Aires Province and Viedma in Río Negro Province, the earliest founded city in Patagonia. The onshore part of the basin is crossed by the eponymous Colorado and Río Negro rivers. Surrounding the Río Negro, many salt lakes are present in the basin. Some authors group the basin
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Awka Liwen


Buenos Aires”; Declared to be of “Educational Interest” by the Government of the Province of Chubut; Declared to be of “Municipal Interest” by the City of Rosario (Government Commission); Declared to be of “Cultural Interest” by the Rural Commune of Cushamen; Declared to be of “Provincial Interest” by the Province of Río Negro); Declared to be of “Provincial Interest” by the Province of Salta; Declared to be of “Municipal Interest” by the Municipality of Morón; Declared to
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Estanislao Zeballos


year before he had been excavated in the banks of the Parana river, finding the remains of a giant sloth. Two years later he published in collaboration with the engineer Pedro Pico a report on the pre-Hispanic mound of Campana, Buenos Aires, which started the systematization of archaeological research in the country. He supported the expedition of Francisco Pascasio Moreno to explore the basins of the Rio Negro and Río Limay. Years later he collected the information obtained, proposing the transfer of the southern border to the Río Negro in his
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Butia yatay


Chaco, Corrientes, Entre Ríos, Misiones (in the municipalities of Candelaria and San Ignacio) and Santa Fe. In Uruguay it only occurs to the west in the departments of Paysandú and Río Negro. Bauermann "et al." investigated the possibility of using palm pollen, including this species, in palynology, in order to try to provide more detail about the ancient changes in habitat in the state Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil by tracking the changes in distribution and abundance of the palms, but were unable to provide
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Río Negro Department


with Paysandú Department is formed by Arroyo Negro with two of its tributary streams flowing through the northwest of the department. These are: Arroyo Gutiérez Grande and Arroyo Bellaco. It discharges into Río Uruguay about north of San Javier and opposite the city of Argentina Concepción del Uruguay, forming at its mouth a sandy beach named Playa Arroyo Negro. There is also Arroyo Romàn Grande, which discharges directly into Río Uruguay. Several sandy islands are formed in the curve of Río Uruguay upstream of Fray Bentos between Uruguay and Argentina. On the
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Uruguay


the Río Negro ('Black River'). Several lagoons are found along the Atlantic coast. The highest point in the country is the Cerro Catedral, whose peak reaches AMSL in the "Sierra Carapé" hill range. To the southwest is the Río de la Plata, the estuary of the Uruguay River (which river forms the country's western border). Montevideo is the southernmost capital city in the Americas, and the third most southerly in the world (only Canberra and Wellington are further south). There are
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San Juan del Río


San Juan del Río is a city (2010 census pop. 241,699) and administrative seat of the surrounding San Juan del Río Municipality (pop. 208,462) in the central Mexican state of Querétaro. The population in July, 2007 is calculated in 128,270 for the city and 217,980 for the municipality. Both the city and municipality have the second-highest population in the state. The municipality has an area of . It is on the country's central plateau (altiplano), southeast of state capital, Santiago de Querétaro,
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Río Negro massacres


community of Xococ asked the Army to organize the Civil Patrols (PACs). "Father Melchor [pastor of Rabinal and expert on the situation of the villages] said that there was a pact so that the people of Xococ were to cooperate fully, in exchange of not being killed". The community of Río Negro was described as a guerrilla. The Patrol Xococ, armed, trained and guided by the Army, was confronted since then with the residents of Río Negro. The first action taken by the patrol Xococ was
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Salinas River (Guatemala)


The Salinas is a river in Guatemala. The river is called Río Negro from its sources (located at ) in the highlands of Huehuetenango and El Quiché until it reaches the Chixoy hydroelectric dam (located at ), where the Río Salama and Rio Carchela converge with the Río Negro. After the Chixoy dam, the river is called Río Chixoy and flows northwards through Alta Verapaz until it reaches the border with Mexico. From there on it continues along the border for as the Salinas river until it finally converges with the Río de
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Río Negro Province


Nahuel Huapi" in 1670 at the shore of the Nahuel Huapi Lake, at the feet of the Andes range. Originally part of the Argentine territory called Patagonia (in 1878 the "Gobernación de la Patagonia"), in 1884 it was organised into the "Territorio Nacional del Río Negro" and General Lorenzo Vintter was appointed as the territory's first governor. It was only in 1957, that Río Negro acquired status of a province; its first provincial governor was Edgardo Castello of the Radical Civic Union (UCR).
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General Roca, Río Negro


General Roca is a city in the northeast of the Argentine province of Río Negro, northern Patagonia. UN/LOCODE is ARGNR. The city was founded on September 1, 1879, by Colonel Lorenzo Vintter —by order of War Minister Julio A. Roca— during the Conquest of the Desert. The place of the first settlement was known by native mapuche people as Fiske Menuco, which means "deep water". It was destroyed in 1899 by a flooding of the Río Negro, and had to be rebuilt northwest in higher
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Río Negro (Argentina)


spite of its name of "Negro" ("black") the colour is more greenish than black. Nevertheless, the name is the literal translation of its aboriginal Mapuche name of "Curú Leuvú". The river was also known by the name of "Río de los Sauces" ("River of Willows") for the abundant weeping willows along its lower course. The "Regata del Río Negro" (Black River Regatta), run in this river, is the longest kayak boat-race in the world
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Caleu Caleu Department


Caleu Caleu Department () is a department in southeastern La Pampa Province, Argentina. The name means gull in the Mapuche language. To the north it borders Hucal Department, to the east Buenos Aires Province, to the south Río Negro Province, and to the west Lihuel Cahel Department. Many of the borders of the municipalities in the region do not align with those of the departments. Caleu Caleu includes part (including the capital) of the municipality of La Adela and part of the municipalities of Bernasconi, General San Martín
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Alto Orinoco Municipality


of Orinoco and Río Negro. Out of these proposals came the decision to create separate commands. On March 17, 1767, Diez de la Fuente arrived in Esmeralda accompanied by 60 Spaniards and the caciques Wadena and Wasaha, who led a group of 3,000 natives. With this, the redevelopment of Esmeralda commenced. The municipality is recognized as a territorial division by the government of Antonio Guzmán Blanco on December 10, 1880 of what is now the Amazonas State. The Alto Orinoco Municipality, according to a 2007 population estimate by the
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Paysandú Department


more departments were formed later in that year. At that time, Paysandú Department included all the territory north of the Río Negro, which included the actual departments of Artigas, Rivera, Tacuarembó, Salto, Paysandú and Río Negro. On 17 June 1837 a new division of Uruguay was made and this territory was divided in three parts. In the new division, Paysandú Department included also the actual department of Río Negro, until it was split from it in 1868. As of the census of 2011, Paysandú Department had a
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Tacuarembó Department


territory north of the Río Negro, which included the current departments of Artigas, Rivera, Tacuarembó, Salto, Paysandú and Río Negro. On 17 June 1837 a new division of Uruguay was made and this territory was divided in three parts. In the new division, the Tacuarembó Department included also the actual department of Rivera, until it was split from it in 1884. The south borders of the department are delimited by Río Negro, which, as a result of the dam near Paso de los Toros along its course,
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Allen, Río Negro


Allen is a city in the province of Río Negro, Argentina. It has 26,083 inhabitants as per the . It is located on the left-hand (northern) side of the Alto Valle of the Río Negro, near its beginning in the confluence of the Neuquén and Limay rivers, about west of General Roca and east of Neuquén. Allen was founded on 25 May 1910 by Patricio Piñeiro Sorondo. Its name was an homage to British engineer Charles Allen, a local landowner and member of the Gran Ferrocarril Sur railway company
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taught literacy and human rights, supported and advised residents of Río Negro in their lawsuits against INDE. In 1979 the Guerrilla Army of the Poor arrived at Río Negro, held meetings with community leaders associated with CUC and spoke of revolution. A person who gave testimony says: "They said it was a struggle to make the Government leave and the Army leave, and that we must fight with machetes, with hot water, and that we were going to get farms if we did the revolution". Members of the ESP
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by the community to CEH shows that, between September and October 1981, members of the army executed 18 peasants who were planting peanuts. In February 1982 a group of armed men, possibly guerrillas, burned the market of Xococ, killing five persons. As a result of the fact that the Army identified the peasants of Río Negro with the guerrillas, residents of Xococ broke trade relations with Río Negro and declared them their enemies. Says an inhabitant of Xococ: "When the war began, friendship was lost" . The
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our animals". The INDE has not yet complied with the commitment to provide equal or better land to the homeless. Nor has legalized ownership of the land where the settlements of displaced communities. Today in Río Negro live a total of twelve families, all in extreme poverty. Moreover, the inhabitants of Xococ still considered as guerrillas to the survivors of Río Negro, while they latter consider the former murderers. On August 23, 1993 four members of the community, with the advice of the Mutual Support Group (GAM)
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Río Negro (Argentina)


Río Negro (; "Black River") is the most important river of the Argentine province of Río Negro, and Patagonia in relation to its flow rate. Its name comes from the literal translation of the Mapuche term "Curu Leuvu", although the water is more green than black. Formerly, it was also known as "river of the willows" because of the big number of weeping willows that grow along the bank. It's 635 km in length. It originates from the junction of the Limay River and Neuquén
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Ciales, Puerto Rico


the U.S. conducted its first census of Puerto Rico, the population of Ciales was 18,155. The first truss bridge erected in Puerto Rico, after the signing of the Treaty of Paris, is in Ciales. It is over the Río Grande de Manatí and is on the list of National Historic places of Puerto Rico. Ciales has a forest reserve called Toro Negro Forest Reserve and a number of rivers including: Río Cialitos, Río Grande de Manatí, Río Toro Negro, and Río Yunes. There are 18 bridges in Ciales.
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Ríos Blanco y Negro Wildlife Reserve


Rios Blanco y Negro Wildlife Reserve () is a departmental protected area in Ñuflo de Chávez and Guarayos provinces in the northern part of the Bolivian department of Santa Cruz. It covers portions of the municipalities of Concepción, Ascención de Guarayos, and Urubichá. The reserve covers 1,400,000 hectares. As a wildlife reserve, according to the General Regulation on Protected Areas ("Reglamento General de Áreas Protegidas"), its purpose is "the protection, management, and sustainable use of wildlife." Living in the vicinity of the protected
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Barrio Chacra Monte


Barrio Chacra Monte is a village and municipality in Río Negro Province in Argentina. It is located 1.5 km south of National Route 22 and 1 km west of the provincial route 6. It is nestled within the zone of farms of the Upper valley of the Negro river, distanced 4 km (as of November 2006) from the edge of the main agglomeration of General Roca and 7 km from its center. In November 2006 the district occupied the greater part of a rectangle of 1000 by 500 meters, these dimensions, however
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Tren del Valle


Tren del Valle is a commuter rail service that connects cities of Neuquén and Cipolletti, in the Río Negro and Neuquén Provinces of Argentina, running on Roca Railway tracks. In a second stage, the line would be extended to General Roca and Plottier, in the same province. The Tren del Valle is named after ""Alto valle del Río Negro"", a valley located at the north west of Río Negro Province, crossing cities of General Roca, Cipolletti, Villa Regina, Cinco Saltos, among others. It
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to relocate, or returned after finding the conditions of resettlement villages were not what the government had promised, these men, women, and children were kidnapped, raped, and massacred by paramilitary and military officials. More than 440 Maya Achi were killed in the village of Río Negro alone, and the string of extrajudicial killings that claimed up to 5,000 lives between 1980 and 1982 became known as the Río Negro massacres. The government officially declared the acts to be counterinsurgency activities - although local church workers, journalists and the survivors of
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the patrollers retained their identity cards and ordered them to report back to Xococ the following week to recover them. On February 13, 1982, 74 people from Río Negro(55 men and 19 women) went to Xococ to recover the identity cards. Once there, they were executed by the patrollers. A month later, on March 13, 1982, at six o'clock, 12 members of the army patrol accompanied by 15 patrols of the Xococ village, entered the community of Río Negro. They went to every house asking for the
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issued on November 30 by the trial court of Rabinal, which was imposed in the first instance death penalty against three former members of the CAP Xococ, accused of being the perpetrators of the slaughter of Río Negro. The lawyer for the plaintiffs told the media: "The process will remain open so that the intellectual perpetrators are also brought to justice". On December 19, 1997 CEH asked the Minister of Defense about the slaughter of Río Negro, among other requests. Minister of National Defence responded on January 5, 1998
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Río Negro (Argentina)


River at the border with the Neuquén Province, and flows southeast to the Atlantic Ocean at , near El Cóndor beach resort some downstream from Viedma, Río Negro province's capital. The river allows the Río Negro province to produce 65% of the pears and apples of Argentina. Besides irrigation, the river is also source of hydroelectricity with small dams on its course. The river served as natural demarcation between "civilization" and the aboriginal territories during the Conquest of the Desert of late 19th century. The river is divided into
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Economy of Argentina


navigable waterways, and these carry more cargo than do the country's freight railways. This includes an extensive network of canals, though Argentina is blessed with ample natural waterways as well, the most significant among these being the Río de la Plata, Paraná, Uruguay, Río Negro, and Paraguay rivers. The Port of Buenos Aires, inaugurated in 1925, is the nation's largest; it handled 11 million tons of freight and transported 1.8 million passengers in 2013. Aerolíneas Argentinas is the country's main airline, providing both
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2003 Guatemalan general election


ruling Republican Front of Guatemala (FRG) nominated former military ruler Efraín Ríos Montt to succeed outgoing president Alfonso Portillo Cabrera. A constitutional ban on former coup leaders (Ríos Montt during 1982-83) led to strong conflict inside the country, including the besiegement of Guatemala for a day: 24 July 2003, known as "jueves negro" ("Black Thursday"). In the first round of voting, Ríos Montt came third behind the centrist mayor of Guatemala City, Óscar Berger, and the more left-wing
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Alberto Weretilneck


Alberto Weretilneck (born October 11, 1962) is the current governor of Río Negro Province, Argentina. Born in El Bolsón, Río Negro, he joined the center-left Broad Front, and was elected mayor of Cipolletti, Río Negro Province, in 2007. He became a supporter of Kirchnerism and was elected Vicegovernor in 2011; he was also named Vice President of the Broad Front on December 17, serving with Adriana Puiggrós. Weretilneck joined Justicialist Party nominee Carlos Soria in December 2010 as his running mate for the 2011
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Piedra del Cocuy Natural Monument


The Piedra del Cocuy Natural Monument () Is a natural protected area located in the Río Negro municipality, in the state of Amazonas, Venezuela. It received the status of natural monument by decree No. 2,986 dated December 12, 1978, published in Official Gazette 2.417-E dated March 7, 1979. Covering an area of 15 hectares, the monument status was created with the aim of protecting the Piedra del Cocuy and its natural surroundings. It is located less than two miles east of the Rio Negro near the Brazilian and Colombian
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Río Negro Department


will directly or indirectly employ more than 8,000 people. The project, however, is not without opponents. On 30 April 2005 about 40,000 Argentinians from Entre Ríos, along with environmental groups from both countries, blocked an international bridge and demanded the Argentine government to intercede before the Uruguayan one to stop the building of the factory, claiming it will gravely pollute the Uruguay River. On 20 December 2005 a World Bank study concluded that the factory would not have a negative impact on the environment or tourism in either country, however,
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Río Negro massacres


on February 7, 1982, on behalf of the military detachment of Rabinal. They asked some people from the community of Río Negro to come to Xococ. The head of the Patrol Xococ that received them accused them of participating in the guerrilla and of burning their market. The inhabitants of Rio Negro replied that the market was a benefit for them and that they had no reason to burn it. However, to avoid worsening the situation, the persons from Rio Negro promised to build a new market in Xococ. Finally,
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Villa Regina


The city is the seat of the eastern Upper Río Negro Valley "Zone II" of elementary education. The local Teacher Formation Institute was founded in 1976; it educates teachers of the area between the municipalities of Maniqué and Chelforó. The Indio Comahue Monument, erected on an overlook on the northern hill, is considered the symbol of the town and is also depicted in the municipal coat of arms. The monument is the finish line for the annual trekking trail competition, "Trekking al Indio Comahue." The local museum,
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Diario Río Negro


Diario Rio Negro is an Argentine daily newspaper edited in General Roca, and published in the provinces of Río Negro, Neuquén, the south of La Pampa, the north of Chubut, the south of Buenos Aires Province and the City of Buenos Aires. The "Rio Negro" was founded on May 1, 1912 by Fernando Emilio Rajneri. At first the newspaper was published fortnightly but later weekly. Since 1958 the newspaper has circulated as a daily. An on-line version has been available since August 5, 1997.
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Tlaxiaco


valley, surrounded by two mountains belonging to the Sierra Mixteca: Cerro Negro and Cerro Yucuninu, the latter of which is the highest point in the municipality at 2875 metres above sea level. Like most of the Mixteca region, the Tlaxiaco valley is drained by the Río Balsas system, which is fed by numerous small streams that rise in the hills near the municipal seat. The climate is subhumid temperate, with a rainy reason in the summer. The average annual temperature is 18°C, although in winter temperatures can drop
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Julio Argentino Roca


Roca was recognized as one of the statesmen who forged the foundations of the modern Argentine republic. As such, Roca has been honored by designating cities, departments, lakes, streets, avenues, squares, monuments, parks, schools and railway lines throughout the country.  Examples include the in the province of Río Negro, the town of in the province of Chaco; the town of in the province of Santa Fe; the of the province of Entre Ríos; the of the province of Córdoba. In Buenos Aires, a
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Brazil–Uruguay football rivalry


The Brazil–Uruguay football rivalry, also known as El Clásico del Río Negro," or Clássico do Rio Negro," or is a highly competitive sports rivalry between the Brazilian and Uruguayan national football teams, and their respective set of fans. Association football is the most popular sport in both countries and they have a combined 7 FIFA World Cups and 23 Copa Américas between them. Both countries also have a very close proximity and border each other, Uruguay only has a population of 3.5 million and has a size of 176,215
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Cesar-Ranchería Basin


fractured reservoir, while the Río Negro Formation has been analysed to be cemented and bearing low porosities. Coal mining in the Cesar-Ranchería Basin is concentrated in the northeast, with Cerrejón spanning the municipalities Albania, Barrancas and Hatonuevo, and in the southwest, with La Francia in the municipalities Becerril and El Paso. At Cerrejón, the coal is excavated from the Cerrejón Formation and in La Francia from the time-equivalent Los Cuervos Formation. Coal is also mined in Agustín Codazzi, Chiriguaná and La Jagua de Ibirico. The
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Soriano Department


Soriano () is a department of Uruguay. Its capital is Mercedes. It is located on the west of the country, south of Río Negro Department, north of Colonia Department and west of Flores Department. Its western border is the Río Uruguay, separating it from Argentina. In 1624, a Franciscan Mission established a reduction for the indigenous tribes of the area named Santo Domingo Soriano. In spite of interruptions in its existence, it is considered the earliest populated centre of the actual Uruguay. Eventually, in its place Villa
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Uruguay


water and small river islands, Uruguay is the second smallest sovereign nation in South America (after Suriname) and the third smallest territory (French Guiana is the smallest). The landscape features mostly rolling plains and low hill ranges ("cuchillas") with a fertile coastal lowland. Uruguay has of coastline. A dense fluvial network covers the country, consisting of four river basins, or deltas: the Río de la Plata Basin, the Uruguay River, the Laguna Merín and the Río Negro. The major internal river is
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Geography of Uruguay


of the country, from west to east: Río Negro, Flores, Florida, Durazno, Treinta y Tres, and Rocha. More industrialized and urbanized, but still quite poor, were the departments of Soriano and Salto, which, as noted previously, benefited from the construction of a bridge and a dam, respectively, across the Río Uruguay in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The two remaining western departments—Colonia and Paysandú—were the most developed of the littoral. Three departments close to Montevideo—San José
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Institutional Republican Party


not he would be able to stand resulted in the besiegement of Guatemala City by FRG supporters bussed in from all over the country on 24 July, a day known as "Jueves Negro" ("Black Thursday"). Days later the ban on Ríos Montt's candidacy was revoked by the Supreme Court. Some claimed that the FRG rigged this vote by placing a majority of their own party supporters in it, echoing Ríos Montt's claim that the judiciary was rigged against him when the decision did not find in his favor
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Odontesthes bonariensis


"Odontesthes", but it is larger, generally reaching up to in total length, and exceptionally as much as long and in weight (reports of even larger are unconfirmed and questionable). "Odontesthes bonariensis" is native to subtropical and temperate South America east of the Andes where it ranges from around the Río Negro basin in Argentina, north throughout most of the northern half of that country, to the Río de la Plata Basin in south Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay. In coastal Atlantic parts of South America it ranges
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Río Negro Department


Río Negro Department (, ) is a department of the northwestern region of Uruguay. It has an area of and a population of 54,765. Its capital is Fray Bentos. It borders Paysandú Department to the north, Tacuarembó Department to the east, Durazno Department to the southeast, Soriano Department to the south and has the Río Uruguay flowing at its west, separating it from Argentina. The first division of the Republic in six departments happened on 27 January 1816. Later in that year two more departments were formed. At the
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Yí River


The Yí River (Spanish, Río Yí) is a river in Uruguay. The Yí and the Tacuarembó Rivers are the principal tributaries of the Río Negro. The Yí River originates in the Cuchilla Grande highlands. It flows generally west through central Uruguay to the Río Negro. Various other rivers, including the Porongos River and Chamangá River, are tributaries of the Yí River. The Yí forms much of the boundary between Durazno Department and Florida Department. Subsequently, it forms part of the boundary between Durazno Department and Flores Department,
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Río Cuarto (canton)


is cool and pleasant, although a bit rainy at this time of year. The main rivers are the Toro, Río Cuarto, Sardinal, María Aguilar and Caño Negro rivers. The Caño Negro, Pozo Azul and Quebrada Gata rivers are tributaries of the Toro River. All these rivers discharge their waters in the Sarapiquí river, that takes them to the river San Juan. Among the lagoons of the canton are Río Cuarto and Congo. Both are lagoons of volcanic origin, occupying ancient outbreaks of eruption. Produce, milk,
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Río Negro (Uruguay)


Reservoir or the Rio Negro Reservoir. With a surface area of about , it is the largest reservoir in Uruguay and an installed capacity of 160 MW. Downstream from the Rincón del Bonete Reservoir, there are two more dams, the Baygorria Dam and the Constitución Dam at Palmar, which generate hydroelectric power for Uruguay with 108 MW and 333 MW, respectively. The Río Negro's drainage basin size is about . There is a delta at its confluence with the Uruguay River with two main mouths. Yaguarí creek -bordered by Vizcaino and
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Uruguay


, the Spanish began to introduce cattle, which became a source of wealth in the region. The first permanent Spanish settlement was founded in 1624 at Soriano on the Río Negro. In 1669–71, the Portuguese built a fort at Colonia del Sacramento. Montevideo was founded by the Spanish in the early 18th century as a military stronghold in the country. Its natural harbor soon developed into a commercial area competing with Río de la Plata's capital, Buenos Aires. Uruguay's early 19th century history was shaped by ongoing fights for dominance
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General Roca, Río Negro


country, mainly with Buenos Aires and Mendoza. Nonetheless, due to lack of maintenance, the airport has not been used since the year 2000. Together with Villa Regina, Allen, Cinco Saltos, Cipolletti, Neuquén and many other smaller towns, they constitute the "lineal" urbanization of the "Alto Valle" of the Negro River. The city is surrounded by a patchwork of irrigated land totaling . Besides apple and pear orchards, there are vineyards and other establishments producing peaches and a variety of other fruits and vegetables.
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Viedma, Río Negro


Viedma () is the capital and fourth largest city of the Río Negro Province, in South-Central Argentina. The city has 47,246 inhabitants (2001), and is located on the southern margin of the Negro River, about 30 kilometres off the Atlantic Coast, and 960 km from the city of Buenos Aires on the National Route 3. Together with Carmen de Patagones city across the river in the Buenos Aires Province, it is the oldest settlement in Patagonia, founded by Francisco de Viedma y Narváez under the name of
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Río Negro Department


Negro Department had a population of 54,765 (27,576 male and 27,189 female) and 20,975 households. Demographic data for Florida Department in 2010: "2010 Data Source:" According to the 2011 census, Río Negro department has an additional rural population of 5,212. Agriculture is the main source of industry in the western part of the department. The main agricultural products are flax, sunflower, wheat, maize, grains, grapes, amongst others. The eastern half of the department has many pastures for the grazing of sheep and cattle
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Avellaneda Department, Río Negro


Avellaneda is a department of the Río Negro Province, Argentina. It is crossed by the Negro River forming a fertile valley known as the "Valle Medio". The river bifurcates and then both arms join again forming two main islands known as Isla Grande de Choele Choel and Isla Chica de Choele Choel and a few smaller ones. The "Isla Grande" holds the towns of Luis Beltrán, Lamarque and Pomona, as well as the most fertile area of the department, with cultivations of tomatoes, apples and pears among the
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Villa Regina


. Villa Regina lies 250 meters (820 ft) above sea level and is located along the Upper Río Negro (Black River) valley. It is within the limits of the General Roca department in the eastern Rio Negro province of northern Patagonia. Situated nearly 100 kilometers (62 mi) west of Neuquén and 500 kilometers (310 mi) northwest of Viedma, it is connected to the other cities in the orchard-rich Río Negro Valley via Highway 22. The region's landscape is characterized by a plateau to the north
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Río Negro Department


Don Esteban Grande, Arroyo Sanchez Grande, with its tributaries Arroyo Sanchez Chico and Arroyo Coladeras. The Río Negro discharges into Río Uruguay about southwest of Fray Bentos. Notable along its course in respect to this department are two hydroelectric dams: the Rincón de Baygorria Dam, forming the Baygorria Reservoir and the Constitución Dam (also known as Palmar Dam), forming the Paso de Palmar Reservoir. In both cases, the power installations are situated on the neighbouring departments of Durazno and Soriano respectively. A big part of the north border
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Mora (canton)


Mora is the 7th canton in the province of San José in Costa Rica. The canton covers an area of 162.04 km², and has a population of 23,004. The capital city of the canton is Ciudad Colón. The Río Virilla establishes the northern boundary of the canton, with the Río Grande de Tárcoles delineating its far western limit. The Río Chucás, Quebrada Grande, Río Viejo and Río Tabarcia mark the canton's western boundary; the Río Jorco, Río Tabarcia and Río Negro, the southern limit; and a series
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List of rivers of Ponce, Puerto Rico


(Río Guayo also feeds into Río Inabón, but Río Guayo is not located in the municipality of Ponce). Río Jacaguas is actually shared between the municipalities of Ponce and Juana Díaz, as it forms the boundary between the two municipalities. Various rivers feed into Río Jacaguas, but none of them are located within the municipality of Ponce. Two rivers, Río Bucaná and Río Portugués, are partially canalized. These canalization occur in parts of the urban area of the city of Ponce. Additionally, two rivers have been damed
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Río Matilde


Río Matilde is a short river in the municipality of Ponce, Puerto Rico. It forms from the confluence of Rio Pastillo and Rio Canas. Río Matilde is one of the 14 rivers in the municipality and, forming at an altitude of just , it forms at an altitude lower than any other river in the municipality. The name Río Matilde has sometimes been used to refer to a segment of Río Pastillo, but Río Matilde actually results from the confluence of Río Pastillo and Río Canas. Río Pastillo joins from its easterly run
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Prieto River (Ponce, Puerto Rico)


Prieto River is a river in the municipality of Ponce, Puerto Rico. It is located in the northeastern area of the municipality. Forming at an altitude of , Río Prieto originates at the second highest point of any river in the municipality after Río Inabon. It empties into Río Cerrillos. Together with Río Blanco, Río Prieto is one of the two rivers in Ponce with mouths at the highest elevation (both at ). This river is one of the 14 rivers in the municipality. Río Prieto has its origin in barrio
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Recall election


), La Rioja (1986), Rio Negro (1988), Santiago del Estero and Tierra del Fuego (1991); other provinces include it for their municipalities, namely, Entre Ríos (1933), Neuquén (1957), Misiones (1958), San Juan (1986), San Luis (1987). It is also included in Buenos Aires City (1996). In 1995, the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia enacted representative recall. In the province of British Columbia, voters in a provincial riding
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Maquinchao


Maquinchao is a village and municipality in Río Negro Province in Argentina. This town is located in the middle of northern Patagonia, right in the steppe. Consequently, the climate is cold semi-arid ("BSk", according to the Köppen climate classification, bordering on a cold desert climate — "BWk") and it can be quite extreme: temperatures can range from well above 35 °C (95 °F) on the hottest summer days (but with cold, desert nights at around 10 °C or
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Río Negro massacres


to Escuintla, Retalhuleu and elsewhere in Guatemala, while the rest of the peasants returned to Rabinal. They were resettled in the village of Pacux, which is located behind the military detachment of Rabinal, forced to form PACs with the aim, as they said, "to prevent the recurrence of repeat attacks by the guerrillas as Río Negro occurred in ". In Pacux the living conditions are precarious and the lands are not suitable for subsistence farming. The grounds are "poor, it is not usable nothing, or for grazing
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El Tamá National Park


Carlos Andrés Pérez. The park is located in the páramos of Tamá with an altitude of 3,320 msnm, Cerro El Cobre with 3,613 msnm and "Judío" with 3,372 msnm, occupying the upper parts of the basins of the rivers Carapo, Río Chiquito, Quinimarí, Quite , Burguita, Burgua, Nula, Nulita, Sarare, Cutufí and Oirá, and the basins of the rivers Frio and Negro, in jurisdiction of the Municipalities Junín, Córdoba and Libertador of the Táchira and Paez of Apure State. Its creation was justified
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Concepción, Intibucá


in the mountains of Colomoncagua and Santa Elena, La Paz and drains into the Lempa river basin, which flows into the Pacific Ocean. In Concepción Río Negro is used for artisanal fishing and the extraction of sand and gravel. It also provides a destination for domestic tourism. The San Juan River divides Concepción and the municipality of San Francisco, Lempira. It is exploited for artisanal fishing and as a source for sand. The Santiago River forms a small grassy plain that is good for grazing livestock. It is used for small
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General Fernández Oro


then the date would be the 18th of May, because on that day the name changed from "Kilómetro 1181" to "General Fernández Oro. As it has already been pointed out, the first Township was approved by a Decree Order issued by the Governance of the National Territory of Río Negro in May 1942 and passed by Presidential Decree on the 12th of December in the same year, thereby creting the Municipality of Fernández Oro. As can be seen, no historical fact relevant to the population is related to the 18th of
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Villa Regina


the Argentinian government. The road, named after former Governor of Río Negro "Gobernador Don Marío José Franco", opened the access to 4,500 hectares of land to be urbanaized by the municipal government. Further development of the road is scheduled for a span of two years, including the addition of pavement, construction of sidewalks and streetlights. Next to the road, the "Via Cristi" pedestrian path is set to be inaugurated during Easter in 2014, including the unveiling of a statue of Christ on top of the northern hill
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