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In the News (Wed 15 Feb 12)

  
  Ethnologue report for Guatemala
Central highlands, northeastern Chimaltenango Department, San Martín Jilotepeque Municipality in rural areas and towns of San Martín and Santa Ana Chimaltenango.
Northern Alta Verapaz, southern Petén departments in Guatemala.
Western San Marcos Department; rural areas west of the town of Tacaná, western Guatemala border, and in Sibinal and Tectitán.
www.ethnologue.com /show_country.asp?name=GT   (572 words)

  
  Jalapa - Travel to Guatemala - Viaje a Guatemala   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Jalapa is a mysterious Department with marvelous traditional tales that invite discovery of its many enchantments.
Finally, the Department of Jalapa was established in the times of the Reforma Liberal, on the 24th of November 1873.
This dance is of a romantic tone, practiced by the mestizos of the east and northeast and in Baja Verapaz.
www.viajeaguatemala.com /english/Jalapa/1051016311210.htm   (1013 words)

  
 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   (250 words)

  
 Qwika - similar:Escuintla
Escuintla Escuintla is one of the 22 departments in Guatemala.
Department of Guatemala Guatemala is a department in Guatemala.
It is the capital of the department of Huehuetenango.
www.qwika.com /rels/Escuintla   (1435 words)

  
 Jalapa - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Jalapa   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
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)

  
 El Progreso - Travel to Guatemala - Viaje a Guatemala   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The Department of El Progreso stands out in the east as a doorway to the impressive Sierra de las Minas, declared a protected zone for the lush vegetation and rich fauna within its warm and humid forests, which contrasts strongly with its plains, deserts and rocky lands.
It bounds to the north with Alta Verapaz and Baja Verapaz; to the east with Zacapa and Jalapa and to the south and west with Guatemala.
The Department known today as El Progreso was without doubt one of the regions most punished by the process of colonization during the three centuries of the domination of the Kingdom of Guatemala.
www.viajeaguatemala.com /english/El_Progreso/10510163105853.htm   (1042 words)

  
 Medical Department
A general complaint was raised, and Dr. Benjamin Rush, physician-general of the hospital of the Middle Department, did not hesitate to attribute the destitution of the hospitals to the mismanagement of the director-general.
It is seen, therefore, that during this great war the work of the Medical Department was performed by the regular medical officers and the corps of volunteer surgeons and assistant surgeons, both commissioned by the President, and by the large body of regimental medical officers commissioned by the Governors of States.
Formerly all the work of the department, including nursing and cooking in hospitals, and litter carrying and ambulance work in the field, was performed by men detailed from the command to which the medical officers were attached.
www.army.mil /cmh-pg/books/R&H/R&H-Med.htm   (6300 words)

  
 Guatemalaweb.com
Escuintlá is the capital of the department of Escuintlá.
In the south of the department of Retalhuleu is the municipality of Champerico which has fl-sand beaches and one of the most important ports in the southern part of the Republic.
This department is famous for having the highest peak in the country and all of Central America: Tajumulco Volcano.
www.guatemalaweb.com /2/maps/population.htm   (1680 words)

  
 Appendix C
His march from Vera Cruz to Jalapa is spoken of as one of great merit and severe trial, in which he on several occasions encountered and beat the enemy.
He was then made military and civil governor of the department of Jalapa and Perote, and by his highly judicious, energetic, prompt, and well judged measures, was mainly instrumental in keeping that extensive district quiet as well as the whole road from thence to Vera Cruz.
The balance of the appropriation of 1847, except $108, was expended in the construction of the seawall before the 1st December last, and it was inspected and accepted by me on the 7th of that month, the work having been faithfully executed, according to contract, under the superintendence of Seth Perry, esq., the agent.
www.army.mil /CMH-PG/books/mexico/topo/AppC.htm   (5329 words)

  
 City of Yakima
The Guatemalan fire department's ambulance had a tire so close to failing that the crew had to decline transporting a gunshot victim the day Ed Moore stopped by the station five years ago.
In fact, their first donation of the tire helped the department respond to a deadly bus crash two days later, according to a newspaper report.
Byron Lara was the adoption coordinator and the guide for the Moores' first trip to Jalapa, his daughter's hometown.
www.ci.yakima.wa.us /services/fire/ed_moore.asp   (676 words)

  
 Table of Contents and Excerpt, Falla, Quiché Rebelde
Conversion, on the other hand, which had begun in 1948, was still taking place in certain cantons in a process that divided groups on the municipal level and created divisions between neighbors and relatives, and sometimes between parents and children.
According to calculations I made in 1970 with the help of men who were familiar with the various municipalities in El Quiché, in that department alone (which, according to the 1964 census, had 249,704 inhabitants) around 70,000 people had joined "Acción," or Catholic Action (CA), as the movement in opposition to the Tradition is known.
Catholic Action was especially active in the western departments of the country, which were in the diocese of Quetzaltenango.
www.utexas.edu /utpress/excerpts/exfalqui.html   (5092 words)

  
 boletin10-news español-1
The flag of Jalapa was created in 1973 with occasion of the celebration of the foundation of the department of Jalapa.
White symbolizes purity, green, the vegetation and forests of the department; yellow the kindness and sincerity of its people; and red, the fondness and friendship that is offered to the visitor as well as the courage of the Remicheros that inhabited Jalapa.
The coat-of-arms of Jalapa was made by Francisco Cabrera, graduate in art, graphic design and educational drawing, who was invited to participate in 1973 in the centennial of the foundation of the department of Jalapa.
www.ctv.es /USERS/jolle/internet14.htm   (511 words)

  
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jalapa seed extracts were effective against both types (Gram positive and negative) of bacteria.
Department of Pharmacy Practice, Colleges of Pharmacy, University of Illinois, Chicago 60612.
Department of Botany and Range Science, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602.
www.herbalgram.org /new-chapter/herbalgram/articleview.asp?a=313   (763 words)

  
 Cases   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Municipality of Jalapa, Department of Nueva Segovia, Nicaragua
An external consultant was contracted by SNV to undertake a rapid economic appraisal of the locality (economic sectors, markets), classify the economic agents and their formal and informal interrelations and finally identify the feasibility of a local economic coordination platform.
The Valley of Jalapa, in the northern department of Nueva Segovia (300 km north of Managua) has been a working area for SNV from the mid eighties.
www.snvworld.org /cds/rgea/cases-3.htm   (1224 words)

  
 USCA1 Opinion 03-2428
Carcamo served as mayor of the town of Jalapa, Guatemala from January 16, 1991 to January 16, 1996.
The relevant functions of the INS were transferred to the Department of Homeland Security and reorganized into the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement in March 2003.
The Department of Jalapa is the large area around the city of Jalapa that is roughly equivalent to a congressional district or state in the United States.
www.ca1.uscourts.gov /cgi-bin/getopn.pl?OPINION=03-2428.01A   (2240 words)

  
 The Army Medical Department 1818-1865: The War With Mexico: Scott's Campaign
The Jalapa hospital was apparently located in a church or buildings attached to a church.
In a castle at Perote, a short distance beyond Jalapa, was a second hospital, managed by a Pennsylvania volunteer surgeon responsible to the head of the Jalapa facility.
The surgeons of the Medical Department, too few to meet the demands made upon them, working with inexperienced volunteer and contract surgeons and assisted by attendants who were, for the most part, the dregs of the Army, were helpless before the inroads of dysentery and other digestive ills.
history.amedd.army.mil /booksdocs/civil/gillett2/amedd_1818-1865_chpt6.htm   (6556 words)

  
 Guatemala Departments
The data by department are shown in the table.
A sampling of them suggests that the first two digits may represent the department (01 = Guatemala, 09 = Quetzaltenango, 13 = Huehuetenango, etc.).
The departments are further subdivided into municipios (municipalities).
www.statoids.com /ugt.html   (232 words)

  
 Topographical Engineers -- George Wurtz Hughes
He was employed under the canal commissioners of the State of New York in 1829, and in 1838 was appointed to the army as a Captain of Topographical Engineers.
In 1840 he was sent by the War Department to Europe to examine and report on public works, mines, and other subjects.
He commanded a regiment of Maryland volunteers (William Emory served under him after his return to Mexico from Washington), and was civil and military governor of the Department of Jalapa and Perote, Mexico, from December, 1847 till the evacuation of Mexico in 1848.
www.topogs.org /b_hughes.htm   (271 words)

  
 Friends and Healthy Schools in Jalapa, Nueva Segovia
Home :: CARE's Work :: Projects :: Friends And Healthy Schools In Jalapa, Nueva Segov...
The project for construction and rehabilitation of sanitary units is part of the Healthy and Friendly Schools Initiative (IDEAS), that the government of Nicaragua has acquired in coordination with the Ministry of Health (MINSA), Ministry of Education Culture and Sports (MECD) and the Nicaraguan Company of Aqueducts and Sewer Systems (ENACAL).
This project was developed with the objective of guaranteeing that 31 educational centers of Nicaragua offer appropriate conditions to 6650 elementary students from Jalapa (department of Nueva Segovia) to achieve harmonious biological and social development in an atmosphere of institutional well-being.
www.care.org /careswork/projects/NIC143.asp   (123 words)

  
 PLANTS Profile for Mirabilis jalapa (marvel of Peru) | USDA PLANTS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Courtesy of Smithsonian Institution, Department of Systematic Biology-Botany.
Mirabilis jalapa L. Click on a thumbnail to view an image, or see all the Mirabilis thumbnails at the PLANTS Gallery
Mirabilis jalapa L. This plant is introduced to the United States from another country or countries.
plants.usda.gov /java/profile?symbol=MIJA   (234 words)

  
 Association for Sustainable Development (ADES), Guatemala
It works in the Department of Santa Rosa, specifically on the conservation of the Ayarza Lagoon - a body of water of volcanic origin with unique scenic beauty.
In Jalapa Department, we have initiatives in the Cascadas de Tatasirire Private Natural Reserve on Cerro Miramundo - Montaña de la Soledad - at 2,300 meters (7546 feet) above sea level.
The project was selected from among 20 at the national level for its creativity, for being a model that contributes to rural development and has a social conscience, and for being a project that could be replicated in other zones.
www.eco-index.org /ong/ades-gt-eng.html   (514 words)

  
 Volatile composition, emission pattern, and localization of floral scent emission in Mirabilis jalapa (Nyctaginaceae) ...
Volatile composition, emission pattern, and localization of floral scent emission in Mirabilis jalapa (Nyctaginaceae) -- Effmert et al.
jalapa is pollinated by hawk moths (Cruden, 1970
jalapa, this volatile was found to be released by the vegetative
www.amjbot.org /cgi/content/full/92/1/2   (5429 words)

  
 Topographical Engineers -- History, Robinson
But rapidly recovering his health, he was placed at the head of a regiment of volunteers, and immediately went back with his command to Mexico.
He was soon afterwards appointed the lieutenant colonel of Colonel Hughes regiment of volunteers (the Maryland and District of Columbia volunteers), and immediately joined him at Jalapa, with a part of that regiment which had not previously marched.
He continued with Colonel Hughes until the end of the war, rendering important military services, after which he returned to the United States, and resumed duties in his corps with the brevet rank of captain.
www.topogs.org /robinson(3).htm   (1049 words)

  
 Mexican-American War and the Media
I sent off an unfinished letter to you last night, and when interrupted by the information that a courier was on the point of starting, I was going on to speak of the intense feeling manifested by the most influential people in town in favor of Lieut.
The same class of persons residing in the city of Jalapa are referred to the second paragraph.
Civil and military governor of the city and Department of Jalapa.
www.history.vt.edu /MxAmWar/Newspapers/Niles/Nilesk1848.htm   (11457 words)

  
 Global Volcanism Program | Cofre de Perote | Summary
Numerous cinder cones dot the flanks of Cofre de Perote.
A cluster of very youthful basaltic cinder cones is located on the NE flank, and young lava flows have traveled eastward to beyond the major city of Jalapa (Xalapa), the capital of the state of Veracruz.
The youngest lava flow, from the compound El Volcancillo vent on the lower NE flank, was radiocarbon dated at about 900 years ago.
www.volcano.si.edu /world/volcano.cfm?vnum=1401-096   (207 words)

  
 Mirabilis jalapa (PIER species info)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Additional online information about Mirabilis jalapa is available from the Hawaiian Ecosystems at Risk project (HEAR).
Taxonomic information about Mirabilis jalapa may be available from the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN).
New Zealand Department of Scientific and Industrial Research Bulletin 200, Wellington.
www.hear.org /pier/species/mirabilis_jalapa.htm   (648 words)

  
 Jalapa, Indiana IN, profile (Grant County) - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk
Jalapa is in Grant County, in the Marion metro area.
Sections below provide additional information and links about Jalapa travel and tourism, nearby airports, cemeteries, the Grant County economy, education, environment, genealogy, government, historic sites, libraries, maps, museums, newspapers and other media, nonprofit groups, real estate, recreation, religion, transportation, and weather.
For more information, see our Jalapa political report.
www.epodunk.com /cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=5437   (589 words)

  
 Guatemal
In one incident, uniformed troops of the Guatemalan army were involved in a massacre of returnees in the northern department of Alta Verapaz.
In other incidents in neighboring El Quiché department, the civil patrol apparatus created and controlled by the army was responsible for numerous human rights violations against returnees and those working with them.
The accused soldiers were remanded to the military tribunal in Jalapa department where legal proceedings were initiated.
hrw.org /reports/1996/Guatemal.htm   (16041 words)

  
 TIME.com: Notes -- Sep. 1, 1924 -- Page 1
From Vera Cruz to Jalapa, more than 100 miles, were "hordes" of grasshoppers, gaily munching crops, stopping trains and stridulating with much gusto.
Although the Department of Agriculture was busy fighting the plague by issuing instructions to farmers, who waged an energetic war upon the hoppers, the latter were reported to be getting the better of the encounters.
It was presumed that the foreigners had been killed during the revolution, which was still in progress.
www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,768993,00.html   (571 words)

  
 Parks
The parks create a green infrastructure that is essential to our community’s economy and preservation of the environment.
The Parks and Recreation Department maintains 57 acres of parkland for the use and enjoyment of Covina residents.
A chart of amenities available, and size of each park is available in the park system quick reference guide.
www.ci.covina.ca.us /parks/parks.htm   (134 words)

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