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The Cerrón Grande Reservoir (Spanish: Embalse Cerrón Grande), locally known as Lake Suchitlán, is the largest body of fresh water in El Salvador. [3] [4] In 2005, the reservoir and approximately 470 km 2 (180 sq mi) of adjacent area was listed as a "Wetland of International Importance" under the Ramsar Convention. The area provides a habitat ...
Middle Rio Grande at San Acacia, New Mexico: Elephant Butte Dam and Reservoir: 1916 Bureau of Reclamation: 2,065,010 acre feet Middle Rio Grande, 3.75 miles east of Truth or Consequences: Caballo Dam and Reservoir: 1938 Bureau of Reclamation: 331,510 acre-feet Rio Grande, 17 miles downstream from Elephant Butte Dam Percha Diversion Dam: 1918 ...
The story was included in Márquez's 1984 "Collected Stories". [4] A study guide has been produced for the story. [5]Constance Pedoto, in the Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics, compares the magical realist story to tales from Alaska such as "The Cormorant Hunters" by the Iñupiat Frank Ellana or "Two Great Polar Bear Hunters" by the King Island Eskimo Aloysius Pikonganna.
The name Tierra del Fuego derives from Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan, who was the first European to visit these lands in 1520, on his voyage to the Philippines from Spain. He believed he was seeing the many fires (fuego in Spanish) of the Amerindians, which were visible from the sea and that the "Indians" were waiting in the forests to ...
The delta is fan-shaped, formed by the Orinoco River as it splits into numerous distributaries, called caños, which meander through the delta on their way to the sea.The main distributary is called the Rio Grande, which empties south-southeast through the southern portion of the delta, and the second major distributary is Caño Manamo, which runs northward along the western edge of the delta.
In mid 2018, the United States Army Corps of Engineers announced it would be undertaking a major flood control project of the river, with a budget of $82.9 million. [4]In mid 2021, funding was appropriated for work on the Río Grande de Arecibo, including work to improve the natural habitat of local species, including the Puerto Rican crested toad and a Río Grande de Arecibo canalization ...
In common usage, the prefix dipolar, dative or coordinate merely serves to indicate the origin of the electrons used in creating the bond. For example, F 3 B ← O(C 2 H 5) 2 ("boron trifluoride (diethyl) etherate") is prepared from BF 3 and :O(C 2 H 5) 2, as opposed to the radical species [•BF 3] – and [•O(C 2 H 5) 2] +.
Deep sea water column. The (oceanic) water column is a concept used in oceanography to describe the physical (temperature, salinity, light penetration) and chemical (pH, dissolved oxygen, nutrient salts) characteristics of seawater at different depths for a defined geographical point.