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Grupo de Guayaquil. The Guayaquil Group (Grupo de Guayaquil, "Cinco como un puño") was a literary group from the 1930s - mid 1940s, that emerged as a response to a chaotic social and political climate where the Ecuadorian "montubio" and mestizo were oppressed by the elite class, priests, and the police.
The most popular given names vary nationally, regionally, and culturally.Lists of widely used given names can consist of those most often bestowed upon infants born within the last year, thus reflecting the current naming trends, or else be composed of the personal names occurring most often within the total population.
Surname Adults % of adults Origin 1: Rodríguez: 225,321 — Spanish 2: Pérez: 158,059 — Spanish 3: Martínez: 141,259 — Spanish 4: García: 137,124 — Spanish ...
It is this habit which transferred to names of Eastern Asia, as seen below. An example is that of Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch Gilbert du Motier, who is known as the Marquis de La Fayette. He possessed both the lands of Motier and La Fayette.
A unisex name (also known as an epicene name, a gender-neutral name or an androgynous name) is a given name that is not gender-specific. Unisex names are common in the English-speaking world, especially in the United States.
Alicia Gaspar de Alba, author of Desert Blood; Adina Emilia De Zavala; Lorenzo de Zavala; Abelardo Delgado, author of Letters to Louise (1982) [1] Mike Durán, author of Don't Split on My Corner (1991) [1] Sergio Elizondo, author of story collection Rosa, la flauta (1980) and the novels Muerte en una estrella (1987) and Suruma (1991) [1 ...
Guatemalans have migrated to the U.S. since the 1930s and 1940s. Along with other Central Americans they first arrived by way of Mexico and settled in urban areas like Los Angeles, Chicago, New Orleans, Houston, New York City, Oakland, San Francisco, Maryland, Washington, D.C., and Northern Virginia.
Puno (Spanish pronunciation:) is a department and region in southeastern Peru. It is the fifth largest department in Peru, after Cuzco , Madre de Dios , Ucayali , and Loreto . It is bordered by Bolivia on the east, the departments of Madre de Dios on the north, Cusco and Arequipa on the west, Moquegua on the southwest, and Tacna on the south.