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Coco also means "skull". [4] The words cocuruto in Portuguese and cocorota in Spanish both means "the crown of the head" or "the highest place" [5] and with the same etymology in Galicia, crouca means "head", [6] from proto-Celtic *krowkā-, [7] with variant cróca; [8] and either coco or cuca means "head" in both Portuguese and Galician. [9]
Cocos Island (Spanish: Isla del Coco) is a volcanic island in the Pacific Ocean administered by Costa Rica, approximately 550 km (342 mi; 297 nmi) southwest of the Costa Rican mainland. [2] It constitutes the 11th [3] of the 15 districts of Puntarenas Canton of the Province of Puntarenas.
The most valid and accepted etymology is a deformation of "griego" that means "greek" in Spanish. So it went like this: griego > grigo > gringo guacamole via American Spanish from Nahuatl ahuaca-molli ("avocado sauce") [13] guerrilla
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The Via del Corso is a main street in the historical centre of Rome. It is straight in an area otherwise characterized by narrow meandering alleys and small piazzas . Considered a wide street in ancient times, the Corso is approximately 10 metres wide, and it only has room for two lanes of traffic and two narrow sidewalks.
Commercial production of nata de coco began in 1954, when the agency, renamed the Philippine Coconut Administration, opened a branch in Alaminos, Laguna and introduced the technology to local farmers. Nata de coco production was later optimized in the mid-1970s through the efforts of a team of microbiologists led by Priscilla C. Sánchez. [2]
During the Spanish colonial period of the Philippines, lambanog was inaccurately called vino de coco ("coconut wine"). From around 1569, it was introduced via the Manila galleons to Nueva Galicia (present-day Colima, Jalisco, and Nayarit), Mexico by Filipino immigrants who established coconut planations. It quickly became highly popular in the ...
The song "La Llorona" is featured in the 2017 Disney-Pixar film Coco; it is performed by Alanna Ubach as Imelda Rivera and Antonio Sol in a guest appearance as Ernesto de la Cruz in the English version and Angelica Vale and Marco Antonio Solis in the Spanish version. In the film, Imelda sings the song during the sunrise concert as she attempts ...