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  Jalapa, Jalapa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It is the capital of the department of Jalapa; it is also the municipal seat of that department's municipality of Jalapa.
The city of Jalapa was built in a valley, surrounded by the Jumay volcano and the mountains of Alcoba and Arluta and the Jalapa Mountains.
The department of Jalapa produces corn and beans which are the main diet of Guatemalans, but also produces fruits such as peaches, apples, flberries, bananas, avocados and vegetables such as cabbage, lettuce, broccoli, and cauliflower, most of which are exported to El Salvador.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jalapa,_Guatemala   (249 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Jalapa, Guatemala   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The city of Jalapa was built on a Valley, surrounded by the Jumay volcano and the mountains of Alcoba, Arluta and the Jalapa Mouuntains.
The department of Jalapa produces corn anf beasn which are the main diet of guatemalans, but also produces fruits as peaches, apples, flberries, bananas, avocados and vegetables as cabbage, lettuce, broccoli, coliflower among other products, most of them are exported to El Salvador.
Jalapa also produces dairy products and is famous for its cheese, special the one called queso seco (dry cheese)and "mantequilla de costal" (butter of cotton sacks), which is produced mainly in Monjas, San Manuel Chaparron, San Carlos Alzatate and Jalapa.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Jalapa,-Guatemala   (269 words)

  
 A Letter from Jalapa, Nicaragua
As many of you remember, Jalapa was one of the main battle grounds during the contra war (and the birthplace of Witness for Peace).
Jalapa was “blessed” with this history by its location; it forms a point that juts up into Honduras.
Jalapa is a center of land mine victims, and sadly the number is growing.
www.westbynorthwest.org /artman/publish/printer_164.shtml   (1661 words)

  
 Jalapa - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Jalapa
Jalapa Enríquez is an agricultural, commercial, and industrial centre.
The University of Veracruz is located here, and the city has an anthropological museum largely devoted to the ancient Totonac, Almec, and Huastec cultures of Mexico.
Jalapa Enríquez is sometimes known as the ‘City of Flowers’.
encyclopedia.farlex.com /Jalapa   (189 words)

  
 Viaje a Guatemala - Prensa Libre   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Jalapa is a mysterious Department with marvelous traditional tales that invite discovery of its many enchantments.
The valleys of Jalapa were always valued as centers of political power by the Kingdom of Guatemala.
Finally, the Department of Jalapa was established in the times of the Reforma Liberal, on the 24th of November 1873.
www.prensalibre.com /suplementos/RYS/vgt/english/comm/jalapa.htm   (1017 words)

  
 Jalapa Guatemala   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
in the western Guatemalan city of Quetzaltenango and in the eastern village of Jalapa.
Other departments where Plan Guatemala works that were likely to be affected (Jalapa and Izabal) have not reported major damages as of the afternoon of 6th...
It is the capital of the department of Jalapa.
www.wikiverse.org /jalapa-guatemala   (150 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Jalapa Department   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Mataquescuintla is a municipality in the Jalapa department of Guatemala.
Monjas is a municipality in the Jalapa department of Guatemala.
San Luis Jilotepeque is a municipality in the Jalapa department of Guatemala.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Jalapa-Department   (457 words)

  
 Mexico - Fair Jalapa
Jalapa's plaza is a terrace garden, beautiful with flowers and crystal fountains; but when you tire of all these, there are the mountains to look upon.
Jalapa is lighted by electricity, as are the palace and various buildings.
The Jalapa Electric Light and Power Co., which has its plant at the falls of Texolo, lights in addition to Jalapa, the adjacent towns of Coatepec, Xico and Teocelo, and several large haciendas, besides sup-plying power for factories and coffee mills.
www.oldandsold.com /articles10/mexico-9.shtml   (5507 words)

  
 Jalapa
In Jalapa itself another very pathetic Yucatecán was seeking refuge, Charo Peón, oldest sister of Joaquin and Ana Peón who had been a leper from young womanhood.
They occupied a nice house in Jalapa on the main plaza with its superb view of the mountains and of snow-covered Orizaba.
Jalapa was not only the state capital but was a delightful town with a salubrious climate, beautiful surroundings and a surprisingly cosmopolitan society.
web.acsalaska.net /~benmuse/beatriz/jalapa.htm   (1339 words)

  
 ULYSSES S. GRANT MEMOIRS -- Jalapa, Cerro Gordo, Perote, Puebla, Scott and Taylor
It was absolutely necessary to have enough to supply the army to Jalapa, sixty-five miles in the interior and above the fevers of the coast.
Cerro Gordo is one of the higher spurs of the mountains some twelve to fifteen miles east of Jalapa, and Santa Anna had selected this point as the easiest to defend against an invading army.
Jalapa, however, is still in the mountain, and between there and the great plain the whole line of the road is easy of defence.
www.aztecclub.com /grant/grant10.htm   (2417 words)

  
 Mexico Travel - Tlaxcala, Texcoc, Jalapa, Tehuacan
The narrow-gauge railroad from Mexico City to Veracruz is not often used by tourists, although it is a line of great scenic beauty and follows very closely the route of Cortes, from the coast to Mexico City.
JALAPA itself is a town almost without sights, but it is such a beautiful place that it is a pity so few tourists ever get to see it.
The morning is the best time to see the city of Jalapa, for then the streets are thronged with Indians and their burros, carrying great baskets of flowers and fruits to market.
www.oldandsold.com /articles02/mexico_travel24.shtml   (1602 words)

  
 Festivals in Jalapa, Mexico
Since there are no hotels in Jalapa, arrive on the 17th and rent a room at Hotel Oasis in Tehuantepec (call 011-52-971- 1-5008).
The Oasis, a half-hour away from Jalapa by bus, has clean rooms and reasonable prices (singles from $8; doubles from $9.50).
According to some, this ritual is a way that Jalapa’s women assert their superiority as matriarchs.
www.transitionsabroad.com /publications/magazine/0005/festivals_in_jalapa.shtml   (746 words)

  
 Jalapa-Jalap
It was first spoken of in 1609, as Bryonia mechoacana nigricans, then it was regarded by Ray as Convolvulus Americanus jalapium dictus, after which Tournefort, being deceived by persons who asserted that they had seen the plant growing, referred it to a species of Mirabilis.
The name of Ipomoea purga was bestowed upon the plant by Wenderoth and Hayne, but as the authorities of this country have, undoubtedly, the first claim, it may be viewed as fixed that I. jalapa, the name originally given to it by Nuttall, is the official plant.
Mirabilis jalapa (Linné): The tubers of this species, which somewhat resemble jalap, may be distinguished by the presence of needle-like raphides of calcium oxalate.
electrocomm.tripod.com /jalapa-jalap.html   (2239 words)

  
 Jalapa Department   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
strike would affect close to 270,000 sugar producers, said Juan Salcido, a representative of the Agriculture Department in the Veracruz capital of Jalapa.
serious damages to bean and corn crops in the departments of Jutiapa and Jalapa.
In the department of Lempira, a mud slide has obliged 40 families to evacuate...
jalapa-department.wikiverse.org   (154 words)

  
 Peace Corps Online | January 12, 2004 - Daily Camera: Heidi Reukauf spent two years in Nicaragua helping provide ...
Jalapa is one of Boulder's six "sister cities." The others are Dushanbe, Tajikistan; Lhasa, Tibet; Mante, Mexico; Yamagata, Japan; and Yateras, Cuba.
At the northeastern tip of Nicaragua, the Jalapa Valley is an agricultural region that houses 60,000 people, said Betsy Duckett, who returned from Jalapa with her husband, Dennis, in September after a year-and-a-half stay.
Overpopulation is also a major concern in Jalapa, where the unavailability of birth control and the stigma attached to contraception by the residents' Catholic values contribute to the average mother giving birth to seven children, she said.
peacecorpsonline.org /messages/messages/467/2019269.html   (807 words)

  
 The Luke Society - Jalapa, Mexico
After holding various administrative posts in government health services, he now works in the emergency room in a hospital in Jalapa, the capitol of the state of Veracruz, Mexico.
Jalapa seems to be a city built on steep hills, where the roads make sharp hairpin turns to make the uppermost villages accessible.
Because Dr. José Luis’s eyes have been opened to this community, he is working to open the eyes of all of Jalapa to these problems.
www.lukesociety.org /news/spring2003mex.html   (1339 words)

  
 Sustainable Resources 2003 - Exhibit - Boulder-Jalapa, Nicaragua Friendship City Project
Boulder Jalapa Friendship City Projects is a membership organization, formed in Boulder in 1984 to expand local understanding and knowledge of Central America and Nicaragua, to make friends, to establish a cultural exchange process, and to provide material aid to the Jalapa region.
In January, 1994, the Jalapa region was hit by a cholera epidemic.
Members of Boulder's teen delegations have felt that visiting the Jalapa region was a life-changing experience.
www.sustainableresources.org /sr2003/srExhibit/expand/80.html   (460 words)

  
 Database entry for Clavillia - Mirabilis jalapa Clavillia - Mirabilis jalapa Clavillia - Mirabilis jalapa Clavillia - ...
Database entry for Clavillia - Mirabilis jalapa Clavillia - Mirabilis jalapa Clavillia - Mirabilis jalapa Clavillia - Mirabilis jalapa Clavillia - Mirabilis jalapa
In Brazil the plant is known as clavillia, maravilha, or bonina; in Peru it is known as jalapa or maravilla.
Hybrids of clavillia can be found in nurseries throughout the U.S. where they are sold as ornamental landscape plants.
www.rain-tree.com /clavillia.htm   (1323 words)

  
 The Messenger: The Newspaper of the Diocese of Belleville, Ill.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The bishop of the Jalapa diocese in southeastern Guatemala is scheduled to visit the people and the bishop of the Belleville diocese during the week of Jan. 6.
While 28 individual parishes have been paired with parishes in Jalapa, the mission society has supported the diocesan work of the Jalapa bishop for many years.
The relationship between the Jalapa and Belleville dioceses began in the early 1960s, at the time of the Second Vatican Council when then Bishop Albert Zuroweste sent a number of diocesan priests to the Jalapa diocese to staff parishes at the request of Pope John XXIII.
www.peaknet.net /~messengr/archive/030103/guatemalabishop.html   (574 words)

  
 Jalapa Travel Information. Photos, Stories and Diaries about Jalapa , Mexico   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Jalapa is the Capital City of the State of Veracruz and is located 302 km from Mexico City via federal highways 140 and 150 in Mexico.
Jalapa is surrounded by mountainous landscapes, which make its Colonial architecture even most attractive.
Located on the highest ridges of the Sierra Madre de Chiapas mountains, enveloped in an almost constant mantle of fog, visitors to the El Triunfo Biosphere Reserve encounter one of the most pristine and diverse natural areas remaining in Mexico.
www.worldsurface.com /browse/location.asp?locationid=2791   (482 words)

  
 Jalapa   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The city of Jalapa is located in the state of Veracruz in eastern Mexico, on the slopes of the Sierra Madre Oriental.
It is the agricultural center for the area where coffee, fruit, sugar, and tobacco are grown.
The city is host to the Veracruz University and has an approximate population of 350,000.
www.realtyinmexico.com /Jalapa.htm   (95 words)

  
 Mirabilis jalapa   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
jalapa; -- so called from Jalapa, a town in Mexico, whence it was first obtained.] (Med.) The tubers of the Mexican plant {Ipom[oe]a purga} (or {Exogonium purga}), a climber much like the morning-glory.
{False jalap}, the root of {Mirabilis Jalapa}, four-o'clock, or marvel of Peru.
Mirabilis jalapa n : common garden plant of North America having fragrant red or purple or yellow or white flowers that open in late afternoon [syn: {common four-o'clock}, {marvel-of-Peru}, {Mirabilis uniflora}]
mirabilis.jalapa.dict.butilki4you.net   (120 words)

  
 Jalapa
Jalapa, Illinois, United States [Place] is in Greene County; location is 39°13'14"N 90°19'27"W [SourceGSP]
Jalapa, South Carolina, United States [Place] is in Newberry County; location is 34°20'40"N 81°41'8"W; elevation is 563 feet [SourceGSP]
Jalapa, Tennessee, United States [Place] is in Monroe County; location is 35°20'39"N 84°21'43"W; was named in year 1895 [SourceGSP]
www.placesnamed.com /j/a/jalapa.asp   (76 words)

  
 Jalapa on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Guatemala: Jalapa y Aurora palpitan pase a semifinales
Semifinal de fútbol guatemalteco: Municipal 0, Jalapa 0
The Sandinista army, stationed in the militarized zone of Jalapa.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/X/X-J1alapa.asp   (274 words)

  
 Plant Profile for Mirabilis jalapa (marvel of Peru)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Mirabilis jalapa L. See county distributions for the following states by clicking on them below or on the map.
Mirabilis jalapa L. This plant is introduced to the United States from another country or countries.
Mirabilis jalapa L. View species account or photographs from USF Atlas of Florida Vascular Plants.
plants.usda.gov /cgi_bin/plant_profile.cgi?symbol=MIJA   (329 words)

  
 See, Jalapa?
Hearth to Hearth 1996 is the first year of a four-year project that celebrates Boulder's four Sister Cities through dance, music and the visual arts.
Boulder's Sisiter Cites are Dushanbe, Tajikistan - Jalapa, Nicaragua - Yamagata Japan - and Lhasa,Tibet.
August 16 through September 15, 1996 Hearth to Hearth presented dance concerts, visual art exhibits and public forums in various community venues that concerned sister city way of life, dance and music traditions and related issues.
www.ibiblio.org /ecolandtech/permaculture/mailarchives/permaculture-mg.6/msg00280.html   (297 words)

  
 XALAPA, or HALAPA JALAPA - LoveToKnow Article on XALAPA, or HALAPA JALAPA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The neighboring valleys and slopes are fertile, and in the forests of this region is found the plant (jalap), which takes its name from the place.
Jalapa was for a time the capital of the state, but its political and commercial importance has declined since the opening of the railway between Vera Cruz and the city of Mexico.
To properly cite this XALAPA, or HALAPA JALAPA article in your work, copy the complete reference below:
www.1911encyclopedia.org /J/JA/JALAPA_XALAPA_or_HALAPA.htm   (161 words)

  
 Jalapa travel guide   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Jalapa travel guide - The best resource for sights, hotels, restaurants, bars, what to do and what to see
If you do know any general information about Jalapa, please [Edit this article].
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License.
www.world66.com /northamerica/jalapa   (82 words)

  
 Jalapa Weather Guide cheap holidays and travel deals, flights and hotels to book online
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www.worldbookers.co.uk /Jalapa-Weather-Guide.html   (229 words)

  
 Jalapa - Homeopathic Remedies
The following are the indications of Jalapa, as it relates to extremities, limbs.
Please remember though, this homeopathy materia medica is provided for information only; it is not intended as a substitute for medical advice, nor as a claim for the effectiveness of Jalapa in treating any of the symptoms below.
If symptoms persist, seek professional medical advice - minor symptoms can often be a sign of a more serious underlying condition.
www.abchomeopathy.com /r.php/Jal/extremities%2C+limbs   (137 words)

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