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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.
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 CIA World Factbook says "Christopher Columbus named the island San Juan Bautista (Saint John the Baptist) and the capital city and main port Ciudad de Puerto Rico (Rich Port City); over time, however, the names were shortened and transposed and the island came to be called Puerto Rico and its capital San Juan." [119] U.S. Virgin Islands
Common components of names given at birth can include: Personal name: The given name (or acquired name in some cultures) can precede a family name (as in most European cultures), or it can come after the family name (as in some East Asian cultures and Hungary), or be used without a family name.
The Regional Government of Puno (Spanish: Gobierno Regional de Puno; GORE Puno) [1] is the regional government that represents the Department of Puno. It is the body with legal identity in public law and its own assets, which is in charge of the administration of provinces of the department in Peru. Its purpose is the social, cultural and ...
The territory was ruled from San Carlos de Puno. It was created in 1784 and remained in Spanish hands until December 27, 1824, when Brigadier Pablo Echevarría handed over the city of San Carlos de Puno to General Rudecindo Alvarado. [1] Since then it became the department of Puno, within the Republic of Peru.
Puno is a province in the Puno Region, in southeastern Peru. It borders the provinces of Huancane, San Román, El Collao and the Moquegua Region's province of General Sánchez Cerro. Its capital is the city of Puno, which is located at the edge of Lake Titicaca, the world's highest navigable lake. It is the economic powerhouse of the region.
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.