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16200. Dial plan. +598 437 (+5 digits) La Floresta is a city and resort on the Costa de Oro (Coast of Gold) of the Canelones Department in Uruguay. La Floresta is also the name of the municipality to which the city belongs and includes several more resorts of the Costa de Oro, east of La Floresta and up to the border with Maldonado Department.
The main activity of the municipality is tourism, as it is made up of a chain of spas on the Río de la Plata. Its area is 65.5 km². The census localities that make it up, had a population of 7,310 inhabitants, in 2011. Localities. Las Vegas; La Floresta; Estación La Floresta; Costa Azul; Bello Horizonte; Guazuvirá; San Luis; Los Titanes; La ...
Laurisilva of Madeira. The Laurisilva of Madeira (Portuguese: Floresta Laurissilva da Madeira) is a natural place declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1999. [1] It is considered a very valuable relic, due to its size and quality, of the laurisilva, a type of laurel forest that was very abundant in the past and is practically extinct ...
Estación La Floresta is a suburb of La Floresta in the Canelones Department of Uruguay. Location [ edit ] It is located on the junction of Route 35 with Route 103, 1.2 kilometres (0.75 mi) north of the Ruta Interbalnearia , and bordering La Floresta to the south and to the west.
Comte Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa (24 November 1864 – 9 September 1901), known as Toulouse-Lautrec (French: [tuluz lotʁɛk]), was a French painter, printmaker, draughtsman, caricaturist, and illustrator whose immersion in the colourful and theatrical life of Paris in the late 19th century allowed him to produce a collection of enticing, elegant, and provocative images of ...
La Floresta (Catalan pronunciation: [la floˈɾestɛ]) is a village in the province of Lleida and autonomous community of Catalonia, Spain. References
Tijuca National Park is claimed to be the world's largest urban forest, [1] covering some 39.58 square kilometres (15.28 sq mi), [7] although this title is disputed with Johannesburg, South Africa. [8] The park shares its name with the bairros (neighborhoods) of Tijuca and Barra da Tijuca nearby. The word Tijuca comes from the Tupi language and ...
The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest, described as the Varus Disaster or Varian Disaster (Latin: Clades Variana) by Roman historians, was a major battle between Germanic tribes and the Roman Empire that took place somewhere near modern Kalkriese from September 8–11, 9 AD, when an alliance of Germanic peoples ambushed three Roman legions led by Publius Quinctilius Varus and their auxiliaries.