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Rancho Santa Margarita y Las Flores was a 133,440-acre (540.0 km 2) Mexican land grant in present-day northwestern San Diego County, California, given by Governor Juan Alvarado in 1841 to Andrés Pico and Pío Pico. [2] The grant was located along the Pacific coast, and encompassed present-day San Onofre State Beach and Camp Pendleton.
San Onofre, Sucre, a municipality in the Sucre Department of Colombia; San Onofre State Beach, located in San Diego County, California; San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS), a nuclear power plant adjacent to the state beach; Caldas da Rainha — Santo Onofre e Serra do Bouro, one of the twelve civil parishes of Caldas da Rainha in Portugal
His name appears very variously as Onuphrius, Onouphrius, Onofrius and in different languages as Onofre (Portuguese, Spanish), Onofrei (Romanian), Onofrio (Italian), etc. In Arabic , the saint was known as Abū Nufir ( Arabic : ابو نفر ) or as Nofer ( Arabic : نوفر ), which, besides being a variant of the name Onuphrius, also means ...
He was the oldest of the five sons of Onofre Barceló, a small time privateer against the Muslim piracy that attacked the coasts of the western Mediterranean. Antonio started his career as a cabin boy in Onofre's xebec Santo Cristo de Santa Margarita, eventually replacing Onofre as its captain, and added a job as a royal mail ship between Palma de Mallorca and Barcelona.
San Onofre State Beach (San Onofre, Spanish for "St. Onuphrius") is a 3,000-acre (1,214 ha) state park in San Diego County, California. [1] The beach is 3 miles (5 km) south of San Clemente on Interstate 5 at Basilone Road. The state park is leased to the state of California by the United States Marine Corps.
The altar of the Basilica of Our Lady of the Pillar, Zaragoza, sculpted by Damià Forment between 1509-12.. Damià Forment (Alcorisa (Teruel) [1] ca. 1475/1480 – Santo Domingo de la Calzada, 1540) [2] [3] was an Aragonese Spanish architect and sculptor, considered the most important Spanish sculptor of the 16th century.
San Onofre is a town and municipality located in the Sucre Department, northern Colombia. References (in Spanish) Gobernacion de Sucre - San Onofre
The San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS), operated by Southern California Edison (SCE) is approximately 100 km (60 mi) south of Los Angeles, 6.5 km (4 mi) south of San Clemente, CA. It is located between the Surf Railroad Line and the Pacific Ocean within Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton .