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The alcoholic cocktail, the daiquiri, was supposedly named for the area. There is an iron mine near Daiquirí, which is a word of Taíno origin. [ 2 ] [ failed verification ] The cocktail was supposedly invented about 1900 in a bar named Venus in Santiago, about 23 miles east of the mine, by a group of American mining engineers.
The daiquiri (/ ˈ d aɪ k ər i, ˈ d æ k-/; Spanish: daiquirí) is a cocktail whose main ingredients are rum, citrus juice (typically lime juice), and sugar or other sweetener. The daiquiri is one of the six basic drinks listed in David A. Embury 's classic The Fine Art of Mixing Drinks , which also lists some variations.
Zaldibar (in Basque and officially, in Spanish: Zaldívar) is an elizate, town and municipality located in the province of Biscay, in the Basque Country, Spain. Zaldibar is part of the comarca of Durangaldea and has a population of 3,043 inhabitants as of 2019 and according to the Spanish National Statistics Institute .
Police in Spain have arrested two people in connection with a missing persons case after a Google Maps vehicle took a picture of someone apparently loading a large object into the trunk of a car.
Toro is a town and municipality in the province of Zamora, part of the autonomous community of Castile and León, Spain. It is located on a fertile high plain, northwest of Madrid at an elevation of 740 metres (2,430 ft). Toro is known as a center of Mudéjar art and as a wine-producing region.
Before and after photos show flooding outside a bank in Paiporta, Spain. Google Maps; Pablo Miranzo/Anadolu via Getty Images. This bank is in Paiporta, south of Valencia City, where at least 62 ...
A province in Spain [note 1] is a territorial division defined as a collection of municipalities. [1] [2] [3] The current provinces of Spain correspond by and large to the provinces created under the purview of the 1833 territorial re-organization of Spain, with a similar predecessor from 1822 (during the Trienio Liberal) and an earlier precedent in the 1810 Napoleonic division of Spain into ...
US Army arriving in Siboney. Siboney was known in early modern literature as Altares or Ensenada de los Altares. [2]In 1898 Siboney and the nearby village of Daiquirí were locations where American forces came ashore in the Spanish–American War.