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The Bom Jesus Biological Reserve was created by decree on 5 June 2012 and is administered by the Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation. [2] It is classed as IUCN protected area category Ia (strict nature reserve).
The Bom Jesus was a Portuguese nau and Indiaman that set sail from Lisbon, Portugal, on Friday, March 7, 1533. Its fate was unknown until 2008, when its remains were discovered during diamond mining operations on the coast of Namibia , near Oranjemund .
Education is compulsory in Puerto Rico between the ages of six and seventeen years. 3L.P.R.A. §391 (a). Attendance in public elementary and secondary schools is compulsory for students except for those students attending "schools established under non-governmental auspices." - Puerto Rico Constitution, Article II §5; 18 L.P.R.A. §2.
Levittown is located in the municipalities of Toa Baja and Bayamon (8th Section now known as Fronteras de Bayamon). To the west sits Levittown Lakes or Los Lagos de Levittown, a small man-made lake formed by draining the marshland over which Levittown was built.
Bom Jesus de Goiás, a city in Goiás; Bom Jesus do Itabapoana, a city in Rio of Janeiro; Bom Jesus da Lapa, a city in Bahia; Bom Jesus do Norte, a city in Espírito Santo; Bom Jesus do Oeste, a city in Santa Catarina; Bom Jesus da Penha, a city in Minas Gerais; Bom Jesus dos Perdões, a city in São Paulo; Bom Jesus das Selvas, a city in Maranhão
Ponce (US: / ˈ p ɔː n s eɪ, ˈ p oʊ n-/ PAWN-say, POHN-, UK: / ˈ p ɒ n-/ PON-, Spanish: ⓘ) is a city and a municipality on the southern coast of Puerto Rico. [25] The most populated city outside the San Juan metropolitan area, Ponce was founded on August 12, 1692 [note 1] [26] [20] [27] [17] and is named after Juan Ponce de León y Loayza, [28] the great-grandson of Spanish ...
The primitive nucleus of the city of Curitiba was called Nossa Senhora da Luz e Bom Jesus dos Pinhais. The region where this nucleus was located was called Campos Gerais or Campos de Curitiba. When a village was established in the area, it became known as Nossa Senhora da Luz e Bom Jesus de Curitiba, that is, Pinhais was replaced by Curitiba. [2]
Puerto Rico was ceded by Spain in the aftermath of the Spanish–American War under the terms of the Treaty of Paris of 1898 and became a territory of the United States. In 1899, the United States Department of War conducted a census of Puerto Rico finding that the population of Corozal was 11,508. [3]