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Manuel Antonio National Park (Spanish: Parque Nacional Manuel Antonio) is a small national park in the Central Pacific Conservation Area located on the Pacific coast of Costa Rica, just south of the city of Quepos, Puntarenas, and 157 km (98 mi) from the national capital of San José. It was established in 1972, when the local community sought ...
In the early 19th century during the era of Mexico's General Colonization Law, [3] Manuel Yturri de Castillo was given a land grant on property once owned by Mission Concepcion. He was thought to have been born in Spain, but immigrated to Mexico. There, he was employed by Spanish merchants who transferred him to San Antonio.
Quepos is the gateway to Manuel Antonio National Park. The city is very tourism-oriented, having many bars and restaurants and a vivacious night-life. Quepos is well known thanks to being the gateway to a popular National Park and beaches in Costa Rica.
Ángel Navarro (1748–1808) was a leading early Spanish settler and patriarch of San Antonio, Texas. The Navarro family played a prominent role in the Mexican and Texas revolutions. He was born in Corsica in 1748 and settled in Spanish Texas in 1769. Navarro was the seventy-second alcalde (mayor) of San Antonio under Spanish Texas. [1]
Fran Hoerster watches workers set a new crown on top of the Mason County Courthouse in Mason on Wednesday April 19, 2023. Residents lined the town square to watch workers secure the cupola to the ...
Recent excavations unearthed artifacts presumably from the 1813 Battle of Medina south of San Antonio.
He was born in San Antonio de Béxar (now San Antonio, Texas, United States).He married María Luisa Cásares by 1846 and had at least two children. The son of a military officer, Vicente Tarín and his wife, Juana Isidora Leal, [1] he was grandson of rancher Joaquin Leal and great-great-grandson of Juan Leal, first alcalde (mayor) of San Antonio. [2]
The Little Lion of the Southwest: A Life of Manuel Antonio Chaves, Chicago: The Swallow Press. ISBN 0-8040-0633-4. Twitchell, Ralph Emerson, The History of the Military Occupation of the Territory of New Mexico from 1846 to 1851, Denver, Colorado: The Smith-Brooks Company Publishers, 1909