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(largest of three tiny islets located off lower left corner of Rapa Nui in bottom left corner of map) The ritual of the "Bird Man" cult was a competition to collect the first egg of the manutara . This took place starting from Motu Nui where the Hopu (representatives from each clan) waited for the sooty terns to lay their first eggs of the season.
Motunui is the location of the Motunui methanol plant, which was the largest in the world at the time of construction. [2] It was opened in 1986 to convert natural gas to methanol, then the methanol to synthetic petrol using a process developed by Mobil. The plant was one of the Think Big projects of the Third National Government.
Arizona Village first appeared on the 2000 U.S. Census as a census-designated place (CDP). Although the village is on the Fort Mojave Indian Reservation, a plurality of the residents (as of 2010) are non-Hispanic White. [6] As of the census [7] of 2000, there were 351 people, 83 households, and 77 families residing in the CDP.
The Navajo meridian, established in 1869, [1] is one of the two principal meridians for Arizona, the other being the Gila and Salt River meridian.Its initial point was stated as latitude 35° 45' north, longitude 108° 32' 45" west from Greenwich, [2] but has been revised as 3] The Navajo meridian and baseline were used to set townships and ranges in a special survey for the original Navajo ...
Second Mesa is a census-designated place (CDP) in Navajo County, Arizona, on the Hopi Reservation, atop the 5,700-foot (1,740 m) mesa.As of the 2020 census, the CDP population was 843, spread among three Hopi Indian villages, Musungnuvi (or Mishongnovi), Supawlavi (or Sipaulovi), and Songoopavi (or Shungopavi).
The Zuni Tribe is governed by an elected governor, lieutenant governor, and a six-member Tribal Council with elections being held every four years. The governor is the administrative head of the Tribal Council, which is the final decision-making body on the reservation.
Each day this week, the Des Moines Register will be presenting one of the daily maps for RAGBRAI 2024, along with the pertinent stats and highlights. Here's today's. Day 7, Saturday, July 27 ...
Mohave Valley, Arizona, town center of the reservation, is located at ; the town center is at the valleys center, and slightly west, closer to the Colorado River, the valley's west perimeter in many The Boundary Cone landmark, lies east, at the northwest perimeter of the Black Mesa (western Arizona) , a subsection mountain region at the ...