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  The Cichlid Room Companion - The Herichthys labridens species group
One behavioral trait is the common use, by parental fish, of the body and pectoral fins for stirring the substrate, with the purpose of uncovering small edible matter for the fry.
Pairs look for a hidden solid surface to lay their eggs, something that would be an easy chore on the river, but not on this habitat, where stones are scarce and sometimes not located in the more protected areas, so many times the underpart of a water lilie leave take their place.
The Verde and Santa María rivers, from an altitude of 1000 meters over sea level to the their merging point (99°14',21°38'N.LAT.), and down the resulting Tampaón river until a geographical barrier in the form of an underground passage through the ridge it seems to prevent their access downwards.
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  TAMPICO - LoveToKnow Article on TAMPICO
The neighborhood is swampy and malarial, Tampico has two important railway connections: the Monterrey and Gulf line running N.N.W. to Ciudad, Victoria and Monterrey, and a branch of the Mexican Central running westward to San Luis Potosi.
There is also a line of river boats on the Panuco running up to the mouth of the Tamazunchale about 135 m., and another running to Tamiahua on the lagoon of that name by way of the Tuxpam canal, about 77 m.
The depth of water at the wharves varies from 18 to 25 ft. The exports include silver bullion (from San Luis Potosi, Aguascalientes, Torreon and Monterrey), ixtle fibre, sugar, hides, live cattle, cotton-seed cake, deer skins, honey, fustic, sarsaparilla, coffee, rubber, broom-root, copper ores and asphalt.
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 Our Adventurers in Tampico
River steamers and ocean tugs moved up and down with long tows of tank barges, and here and there, against the banks, barges were loading oil from the pipe lines of near-by wells.
There were, on the river, many hundreds of the chalans, or long poling boats of the Indians, going upstream with purchases from town, coming down on the current loaded with chickens, vegetables, charcoal, corn, raw sugar, bananas, pineapples, sugar cane, and all manner of things from the soil that fetch a price in Tampico.
There were dredgers, pile drivers, launches, barges, river steamers, harbor tugs, huge ocean-going tugs, and a fast stream yacht (bought a year before for the purpose of rushing the American employees away to the safety of the sea in case of need).
ackmo.baylor.edu /~bellc/JL/OurAdventurersInTampico.html   (5355 words)

  
 Tampico
The banks of the river are peppered with refineries and oil tanks.
The Panuco River is also heavily fished by local commercial fishermen.
One of the largest Pemex refineries is at Ciudad Madero, a suburb to the north of Tampico near the mouth of the Panuco River.
www.travelmexicoplus.com /tampico.html   (210 words)

  
 GulfBase - Estuario Panuco
The Panuco River is located in the state of Tamaulipas, Mexico.
It is an estuary associated with the lagoons Chairel, Pueblo Viejo, Cerro Pez, Dulce, Tortugas, Chila Marlano, Los Moros, Quimin Camalote, Herradura and Tancoco, and whose basin covers approximately 107,200 square km.
The river originates in the state of Mexico, flows from Southeast to Northeast and passes through the states of Hidalgo, Puebla, Tlaxcala, Queretaro, Guanajuato and Veracruz, covering a distance of 510 km and receiving several tributaries that help in its formation.
www.gulfbase.org /bay/view.php?bid=panuco1   (432 words)

  
 The Rivers Foundation of the Americas - Promoting Clean Water, Biodiversity, and Human Health
Rivers Alliance of Connecticut was formed to protect and enhance Connecticut's rivers and streams by promoting sound river and watershed policies, uniting and strengthening the state's many river and watershed groups, and educating the public about the importance of river conservation.
Rivers Founded in 1969, the Nashua River Watershed Association's mission is to work for a healthy ecosystem with clean water and open spaces for human and wildlife communities, where people work together to sustain mutual economic and environmental well-being in the Nashua River watershed.
The Conchos River is the main surface water source in Chihuahua state, and one of the principal tributaries of the Río Grande (Río Bravo) River.
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We entered the sea through one of the mouths of the river,* and for three days and nights we could not see land, but after that we came in sight of it, and took in some water to drink.
The Spaniards went to sea on the 18th July, and arrived in the river Panuco on the 10th September, 1543.
The inhabitants of Panuco, says Garci-laso de la Vega, were all touched with pity at beholding this forlorn remnant of the gallant armament of the renowned Hernando de Soto.
lcweb2.loc.gov /master/rbc/rbfr/0008/01250109.txt   (258 words)

  
 Panuco River --  Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust!
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To the southeast rise the snow-crowned peaks of the volcanoes Popocatépetl and...
Rivers are also a principal natural force in shaping land surfaces.
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Two of the brigantines, which sailed that night with all their sails, by break of day had overshot the river of Panuco without seeing it.
And as soon as they were conic in, they saw Indian men and women appareled like Spaniards, whom they asked in what country they were 1 They answered in Spanish, that it was the river of Panuco, and that the town of the Christians was fifteen leagues up within the land.
The other two brigantines which had overshot the place, put to sea to return back to seek the rest, and could not do it, because the wind was contrary and the sea grown; they were afraid of being cast away, and recovering the shore they cast anchor.
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 Spanish Texas   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Several days after passing the mouth of the Great River, two of the battered craft were beached on an island (probably San Luis, now known as Follets Island) off the Texas coast, in November 1528.
By the time La Salle discovered that "his river" was not where he had landed, he was stranded on the Texas coast and had become the object of a resolute Spanish manhunt.
It crossed the Colorado River on March 17 and camped near present Columbia on March 20, recruiting and reinforcements having increased its size to 1,200 men.
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In 1746, Spain created the Colony of Nuevo Santander, which stretched from the Panuco River (Tampico, Mexico is at the mouth of the Panuco) to the Nueces River (Corpus Christi, Texas is near the mouth of the Nueces), and included what was to become Cameron County.
Although the territory between the Nueces and Rio Grande Rivers, sometimes referred to as the Nueces Strip, had never been part of the province of Texas, the First Congress of the Republic of Texas declared the Rio Grande River to be the southern boundary of Texas in December 1836.
The territory between the Nueces and Rio Grande Rivers was sparsely populated until the arrival of the railroad in 1904.
www.sanbenito.k12.tx.us /schools/BertaCabaza/HSSB/Science_Dept/intro.html   (1553 words)

  
 MSN Encarta - Search Results - Tampico
Tampico, city in eastern Mexico, in Tamaulipas State, a port on the Pánuco River (near its mouth on the Gulf of Mexico).
Mexico has few major rivers, and most are not navigable.
The longest river is the Rio Grande (called the Río Bravo del Norte in Mexico), which...
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 History of the New Kingdom Chapter 2
In this place the soldiers tried to riot because they would not let them sack ; they went ahead and, in the crossing of another river eight horses drowned; they went into some marshes, where they expected to die, and if there were any resistance not one would escape.
He proposed to him a marriage of his eldest son with Catarina Pizarro, illegitimate daughter of Cortés, provided that he allow him to make another attempt of a founding at the Palmas River and that Cortés cooperate in that undertaking.
He came to promise, not only the requested help, but to provide his daughter’s future father-in-law with his expert captains and with his veteran soldiers to help Garay accomplish his intent.
www.library.ci.corpus-christi.tx.us /newkingdom/reinochapter2p2.htm   (884 words)

  
 Handbook of Texas Online: MENA, MARCOS DE
At the last river before the Pánuco, those who remained alive began building a raft for crossing the river, believing that they had at last eluded their pursuers.
With seven arrow wounds, Fray Marcos was left for dead in the river's shallows.
The few who remained alive renewed their attempt to cross the river, and Fray Marcos, plucking the arrows from his body, rose to join them.
www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/MM/fme71.html   (779 words)

  
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Alaminos was not a great conquistador, but he was the man who would lead the first Europeans to the Mississippi River and, maybe, to Acadiana.
Pineda sailed upstream for about 20 miles, counting 40 Indian villages along the banks, and spent more than a month inside one of the river inlets, careening and cleaning his ships and trading with the (apparently friendly) natives.
Most of his companions would be stranded and die just west of the Mississippi River, but Cabeza would survive to spend the next five years on the island and nearby mainland, living among Natives at various villages.
www.lft.k12.la.us /chs/LA_Studies/ParishSeries/Exploration/SpanishSeamen.htm   (1662 words)

  
 DeSoto Map Hernando DeSoto, Circa 1544 - Rare Antique Map Reproductions: New World, Florida & the Caribbean   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
This quill and ink sketch is likely to be the first map based upon an actual inland exploration of the present day United States to show the Appalachian Mountains, the flow of rivers to the Atlantic, and the location of Indian villages.
Found among the papers of Alonzo de Santa Cruz, royal cosmographer to Charles V, the map reflects the official Spanish conception of the area from the Cape Fear River to the Panuco River in Mexico.
The trip ended in disaster as DeSoto died of fever in 1542 along the banks of the Mississippi River.
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 Northern Veracruz Web Guide
The far northern corner is formed by the meeting of the Tempoal, Tamesi and Panuco rivers on the northern border with the state of Tamaulipas where the large City of Tampico holds court.
To the east, the Huasteca disappears in the Gulf of Mexico, where is the extensive salt water lagoon of Tamiahua, separated of the sea by a coastal cord; and, in the part the west, it finishes in the Mountain range of Huayacocotla and the states of San Luis Potosí, Hidalgo and Puebla.
The Totonac sculptures are found in the zone between the rivers Cazones to the north and Papaloapan to the south.
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 Heroine Cichlids of Central America - Ecology, Evolution and Taxonomy (Amphilophus, Archocentrus, Cichlasoma, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The dense and continuous “sea” of primitive tropical rain forest was broken only by the rivers and streams that flowed through them and emptyed their waters to the coastal lagoons.
The CPTE narrows progressively southward from 140 km at the Panuco river, 115 km at the Tamiahua lagoon, 60 km at the Tecolutla river, to only a few kilometres where the NVB reaches the shore of the Gulf of Mexico (Bryant et al., 1991).
It even reached the upper Panuco where it was trapped in the Tamasopo River by the formation of the Tamasopo falls.
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A town and river in Georgia and a county in Maryland.
On the 20th, she proclaimed the blockade of that port and of the Mexican coast.
A little over a month later, her blockade duty was interrupted, and the sloop was ordered back to the mouth of the Pánuco River.
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 Visite México   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The source of this river is in Santa María del Río, south of San Luis Potosí.
The river passes through Concá and ends at the Tamul waterfall, where it joins the Gallinas River.
As it leaves the sierra, it winds across the coastal plain until it reaches the fast-flowing Panuco River.
www.visitmexico.com /wb/Visitmexico/Visi_SLP_Golf/_aid/4464   (332 words)

  
 USS Spitfire IV
Spitfire joined other light draft vessels of the squadron and boats from the heavier American warships in moving across the bar and up Panuco River and past the fort which guarded the stream.
On 14 June, she was part of the force which took Frontera at the mouth of the Tabasco River.
The American ships then ascended the river, engaged Mexican batteries at three points on the Tabasco, and occupied the city of the same name on the 16th.
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 Central America Guide   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
One of the principal tourist attractions, is the "Tampico" bridge, that is a stately work located on the Panuco river and joins two states, Tamaulipas and Veracruz; the bridge is one of the most beautiful of the country due to its pendulous design.
The rapid exploitation of petroleum resources, however, resulted in a marked increase of population and in improved sanitary conditions, and for several years Tampico ranked as the greatest oil port in the world.
The Chijol Canal, which was begun in 1901, affords a waterway 6 feet (1.8 m) deep and 25 feet (7.6 m) wide for about 75 miles (120 km) southward through the oil fields to Tuxpan.
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 1993 Flood Archive
Rivers: Pol, Uck, Tiese, the Lesser Tiese and the Beult
"Heavy rain caused the River Panuco to overflow its banks, forcing as many as 12,000 people from their homes in the Gulf coast states of Tamaulipas and Veracruz.
Rivers: Big River south of St Louis; Missouri River, Tuque Creek, Gravois Creek, South Fork of the Salt River, Cuivre River at Troy, Meramec River, James River.
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 Dutch Courage and Other Stories: Whose Business Is To Live   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The man to whom he talked was across the Panuco, on the south side, at the tank farm.
They did discuss the glares of several fires to the east along the south bank of Panuco River, and hoped fervently that they were dwellings and not wells.
The refugee steamboat had departed down river from the Asphodel camp; Chill II had disappeared, the superintendent knew not how, along with the body of Peter Tonsburg; and the superintendent was dubious of their remaining.
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 Chapter 2 Page 4
The “very large and very swift” river, which Pineda overcame, was the Río de las Palmas which, as we shall show farther ahead, was nothing more than the Grande of the North or the Bravo.
Camargo left Jamaica and, the summer of 1520 well underway, he arrived at the outlet of the aforementioned river, “went up seven leagues along the river, appeared next to certain villages, he put people on land...
Even when all the old chroniclers point out the Pánuco River, or simply Pánuco, as the place where Camargo tried to found his colony, we hold that said place was no other than the outlet of Río de las Palmas.
www.library.ci.corpus-christi.tx.us /newkingdom/reinochapter2p4.htm   (1066 words)

  
 TAMPICO - Online Information article about TAMPICO
low ground only 2 or 3 ft. above the river, and is subject to inundations.
There is also a line of river boats on the Panuco running up to the mouth of the Tamazunchale about 135 m., and another running to Tamiahua on the See also:
mill, oil refinery, and a shipyard for small river boats.
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 Lake Texcoco --  Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - Your gateway to all Britannica has to offer!
Originally one of the five lakes of the Valley of Mexico, Texcoco has been drained by channels and a tunnel to the Pánuco River since the early 17th century.
The name, however, is sometimes given to the widened parts of rivers and to bodies of water that are in direct connection with the sea.
Canada's rivers and lakes are used for shipping and for producing electricity.
concise.britannica.com /ebc/article-9380524   (983 words)

  
 Prehistoric World: or, Vanished Races, The
We notice, on the coast, the Gulf of Tampico, into which pours the river Panuco.
And it was here that, at a far earlier period, according to the dim, uncertain light of tradition, the ancestors of some of the civilized nations of Mexico made their first appearance; of this, more hereafter.
Certain it is that, commencing at this river, we find ourselves in a land of ruins.
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 Huastec: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library
They speak a Mayan language but are isolated from the rest of the Mayan stock, from whom they may have been separated prior to the arrival of the Spanish.
HUASTEC was tek, indigenous people of the Panuco River basin...civilizations of the central plateau, such as the Aztec.
Speaking a group of closely related languages (with an outlier, Huastec, spoken in the Panuco basin of Mexico), the population of Maya today is over 4 million.
www.questia.com /library/encyclopedia/101249939   (1068 words)

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