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Valparaiso (/ ˌ v æ l p ə ˈ r eɪ z oʊ / VAL-pə-RAY-zoh), colloquially Valpo, is a city in and the county seat of Porter County, Indiana, United States. [4] The population was 34,151 at the 2020 census .
Valparaiso University (Valpo) is a private university in Valparaiso, Indiana, United States. It is an independent Lutheran university with five colleges. It enrolls nearly 2,300 students [ 3 ] and has a 350-acre (140 ha) campus.
The Valparaiso Beacons is the name of the athletic teams from Valparaiso University – often referred to as Valpo – in Valparaiso, Indiana, United States.The Beacons compete in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) at the Division I level and are members of the Missouri Valley Conference in all sports except football, bowling, and men's swimming.
In Hungarian the town is known as Valpó [5] and in German as Walpach. [2] In antiquity, it was called Iovalum. [6] There are several suggested etymologies.One is that it comes from the Latin root *Iov-, meaning "divine".
Valparaiso, a stage play by Don DeLillo that was first performed in 1999 "Valparaiso", a 1996 song by Sting from Mercury Falling "Valparaiso", a 1998 song by Anggun from Snow on the Sahara (1998) Valparaiso Moraine is a geographic feature from the Wisconsin Glaciation, 14,000 years before present; Battle of Valparaiso in the War of 1812
The Puerto Deportivo Valparaíso, [59] located at Muelle Barón, Bordemar Centro, [60] is a watersports centre which offers sailing, kayaking and scuba diving lessons and hosts the "Valpo Sub" program that seeks to preserve the area's underwater heritage, offering educational tours and expeditions to shipwrecks along the bay. Puerto Deportivo ...
PPhysiography of the Valparaiso Moraine. Valparaiso Moraine at Mink Lake, north of Valparaiso, Indiana. The Valparaiso Moraine is a recessional moraine (a landform left by receding glaciers) that forms an immense U around the southern Lake Michigan basin in North America. It is a band of hilly terrain composed of glacial till and sand.
The fort (castle) with suburbs near Valpovo (Hungarian: Valpó, German: Walpach, Turkish: Valpo) is located on a large plain near the Karašica River, about 80 km northeast of Požega and about 27 km northwest of Osijek.