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Morrison Formation (all three members) exposed at Escalante Petrified Forest State Park, Escalante Petrified Forest State Park (also known as Escalante State Park) is a state park in Utah, United States, located 0.8 km north of Escalante and 71 km east of Bryce Canyon National Park. The park features a high mesa that was once an ancient ...
Santa Rosa Island (Spanish: Isla de Santa Rosa; Cruzeño Chumash: Wi'ma) [1] is the second largest of the Channel Islands of California at 53,195 acres (215.27 km 2 or 83.118 sq mi). Santa Rosa is located about 26 miles (42 km) off the coast of Santa Barbara, California , in Santa Barbara County and is part of Channel Islands National Park .
Traditionally, Isla Vista is the area boxed in by El Colegio Road to the north, Ocean Road to the east, the beach to the south, and Camino Majorca to the west. The 2000 census showed 13,465 residents in this area of about 0.55 square miles (1.4 km 2 ).
The sandstone layers now exposed in the Canyons of the Escalante were deposited during the Mesozoic era, 180 to 225 million years ago, [4] when this area was part of a large area of dunes. Near the end of the Cretaceous period, about 80 million years ago, the entire western section of North America entered an era of uplift and mountain-building ...
Poverty incidence of Escalante 5 10 15 20 25 30 2006 27.80 2009 25.55 2012 23.54 2015 23.83 2018 25.31 2021 24.05 Source: Philippine Statistics Authority Government Mayors of Escalante German Carballo, 1901-1904 Juan Infante, 1905-1906 Pelagio Abong, 1906-1907 Vidal Clarin, 1908 Placido Visitacion, 1909-1911 Fernando Lucot, 1912-1918 Gabino Gamao, 1919-1921 Francisco Ferrer, Sr., 1922-1931 ...
This area, like the rest of the Lake Pátzcuaro region, was settled by the Purépecha people starting from the 12th century. In this area, the Purépecha founded villages such as Churucumeo, Cuirindicho, Andicua, Huitzila, Taboreca and Itziparátzico [3] with the village closest to the modern town of Santa Clara del Cobre being Xacuaro. [7]
Isla Incahuasi, Inkawasi [1] [2] or Inka Wasi [3] (Spanish Isla island, Quechua Inka, Inca wasi house, [4] "Inca house"), also known as Isla del Pescado ("island of the fish"), [5] is a hilly and rocky outcrop of land and former island in Bolivia situated in the middle of Salar de Uyuni, the world's largest salt flat, at an elevation of 3,656 meters (11,995 feet). [6]
Isla Espriritu Santo is located in the Sea of Cortez (Gulf of California), about 26 kilometres (16 mi) to its southern tip from the port city of La Paz, Mexico. Together with its sister island Isla Partida, the islands are a rock formation created by a series of violent earthquakes and volcanic activity. As such, volcanic ash and lava make up ...