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San Cristóbal de las Casas (Spanish: [saŋkɾisˈtoβal de las ˈkasas] ⓘ), also known by its native Tzotzil name, Jovel (pronounced [xɤ̞ˈve̞l]), is a town and municipality located in the Central Highlands region of the Mexican state of Chiapas.
San Cristobal Island is composed of three or four fused volcanoes, all extinct. It is home to the oldest permanent settlement of the islands and is the island where Darwin first went ashore in 1835. A small lake called El Junco is the only source of fresh water in the islands.
San Cristóbal is a municipality and city which since 2011 has been included in Artemisa Province of Cuba. It was previously part of Pinar del Río Province.
San Cristóbal is a city in the southern region of Dominican Republic. [4] It is the municipal ( municipio ) capital of the San Cristóbal province . The municipality is located in a valley at the foothills of the mountains belonging to the Cordillera Central , between the Nigua and Nizao rivers.
San Cristobal is a census-designated place in Taos County, New Mexico. Its population was 273 as of the 2010 census, [4] and in the 2020 census the population was 206 persons with a total number of households at 49. [5] San Cristobal has a post office with ZIP code 87564, which opened on February 16, 1932. [6] [7]
The first recorded sighting by Europeans of Makira was by the Spanish expedition of Álvaro de Mendaña in June 1568. More precisely the sighting and also landing in San Cristobal was due to a local voyage that set out from Guadalcanal in a small boat, in the accounts the brigantine Santiago, commanded by Alférez Hernando Enriquez and having Hernán Gallego as pilot.
There are three airports that serve Táchira State and its capital San Cristobal. Juan Vicente Gómez International Airport of San Antonio, Mayor Buenaventura Vivas Airport of Santo Domingo del Táchira and La Fría Airport of La Fria. There is a bus terminal located just below the La Concordia neighborhood of San Cristóbal where buses, taxis ...
San Cristóbal (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈsaŋ kɾisˈtoβal]) is a province in the southern region of Dominican Republic, located west of the capital Santo Domingo. With approximately 642,000 inhabitants, it is the fourth most populated province in the country, only behind Santo Domingo , Santiago and the National District .