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The Cajas National Park is home to a large variety of animals, some of which are endemic or highly endangered. Among the most prominent are the South American condor , of which only 80 remain throughout all Ecuador; the curiquinga , a large black and white raptor , and the largest hummingbird of the world, the giant hummingbird ( Patagona gigas ...
The author translated the four novels into Spanish under the titles Cajas de cartón ("cardboard boxes"), Senderos fronterizos, Más allá de mí, and Pasos firmes, respectively, all published by Houghton Mifflin.
Caja del Rio (Spanish: "box of the river") is a dissected plateau, of volcanic origin, which covers approximately 84,000 acres of land in northern Santa Fe County, New Mexico, United States. The region is also known as the Caja , Caja del Rio Plateau , and Cerros del Rio.
It is believed the island is only some 4,000 years old, and stone art left on the island attests it has been visited by man over milennnia. [6] Taíno natives made frequent trips to the island on fishing expeditions, and when they were defeated by the Spanish during the 1511 battle of Spanish–Taíno War for Borikén, the natives attempted a retreat to the Caja de Muertos but shortly ...
Entrance to the Caja de las Letras Some of the boxes. The Instituto Cervantes, taking advantage of the presence of the vault in the basement of its headquarters (Caryatid Building) in Madrid (Spain), uses safe deposit boxes for great figures of Hispanic culture to deposit a legacy that will not be opened until the date they decide.
playing the Caja. The caja, a Colombian drum similar to a tambora, is one of the three main or traditional instruments of Vallenato music. [1] Caja, the slang word adopted to nickname this drum, means "box" in Spanish. There is also a Caribbean drum called caja, used in the music of Cuba.
Bonito is a popular food fish in the Mediterranean; its flesh is similar to tuna and mackerel, and its size is intermediate between the two. [6] Bonito under 1 kg (2.2 lb) or so (called palamut ~ паламуд in Bulgarian) are often grilled as steaks. Larger bonito (torik in Turkish) are cut into steaks and preserved as lakerda. [6]
Caja de Muertos, with an area of 0.59 sq mi (1.54 km 2), is the largest island in the nature reserve. It is part of the Playa barrio of the municipality of Ponce. The island of Caja de Muertos is the main geographical feature of the reserve; it is located 4.8 nautical miles south of the coast of Puerto Rico.