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Ostende was the first town established in region currently known as Pinamar Partido, having been founded by Belgian Fernando Robette and Italian Agustín Poli. [5] They had arrived in 1908 and bought the land from Don Manuel with the aim of designing a sophisticated seaside resort with the same model as that city of Belgian origin whose name, Ostend (Oostende in Dutch), means “End of the ...
Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada y Rivera, also spelled as Ximénez and De Quezada, (Spanish: [gonˈθalo xiˈmeneθ ðe keˈsaða]; 1509 [1] – 16 February 1579) was a Spanish explorer and conquistador in northern South America, territories currently known as Colombia.
The Torres Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada with the Cerro de Guadalupe of the Eastern Ranges of the Colombian Andes in the background. The Torres Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada ("Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada Towers") is a residential complex composed of five towers of equal height in the centre of the Colombian capital Bogotá.
José Francisco Morazán Quesada was born on October 3, 1792, in Tegucigalpa (then in the Captaincy General of Guatemala, now the capital of Honduras) during the waning years of Spanish colonial rule to Eusebio Morazán Alemán and Guadalupe Quesada Borjas, both members of an upper-class Creole family dedicated to trade and agriculture.
Guadalupe Quezada, of Mesa, Arizona, was sentenced Dec. 19 to 11 years and three months in federal prison on one count of conspiracy to bring an alien to the United States resulting in death, U.S ...
Hernán Pérez de Quesada, sometimes spelled as Quezada, [7] (c. 1515 – 1544) was a Spanish conquistador. Second in command of the army of his elder brother, Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada , Hernán was part of the first European expedition towards the inner highlands of the Colombian Andes .
Because of the area's prosperity from colonial times to the Porfirio Díaz period, the town has about 180 constructions with historical value. [3] The main landmarks are the Encarnación parish, the Señor de Misericordia Cemetery, the Municipal Palace, the Jesús, María y José Sanctuary, Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe church and the Dr. Pedro de Alba and the Astrónomo Angel Anguiano Limón ...
Jorge González Camarena (24 March 1908 – 24 May 1980) was a Mexican painter, muralist and sculptor.He is best known for his mural work, as part of the Mexican muralism movement, although his work is distinct from the main names associated with it (Rivera, Orozco and Siqueiros).