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  El Terremoto de San Juan (Argentina) de 1944 - Monografias.com
El terremoto que asoló la ciudad de San Juan en 1944, destruyó miles de viviendas, edificios públicos, obras comunales e históricas y la economía de gran parte de la población, que representaban el patrimonio acumulado en varias generaciones, sin contar la pérdida irreparable de miles de vidas humanas.
La Argentina debió aceptar, a partir de 1944 el desafío de poner en pie casi toda una ciudad de más de 80.000 habitantes.
Luego de varios decretos de origen nacional para normalizar la ayuda a la reconstrucción de San Juan, la ley 12.865 acordó a la provincia un subsidio, incrementado en varias ocasiones posteriores.
www.monografias.com /trabajos/terremotosj/terremotosj.shtml   (1956 words)

  
  San Juan, Argentina - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
San Juan is the capital city of the Argentine province of San Juan in the Cuyo region, located in the Tulúm Valey, west of the San Juan River, and at 650 m above mean sea level, with a population of around 112,000 as per the 2001 census
San Juan de la Frontera was founded on June 13, 1562 by Juan Jufré at the shore of the San Juan River.
San Juan is the seat of a Roman Catholic metropolitan Archbishop and a Catholic University.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/San_Juan,_Argentina   (671 words)

  
 San Juan Province (Argentina) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
San Juan is a province of Argentina, located in the western part of the country.
The city of San Juan de la Frontera was founded by Juan Jufré y Montesa in 1562 and relocated 2 kilometres south in 1593 due to the frequent flooding of the San Juan River.
Its main attractions are the city of San Juan (and birth house of Sarmiento) the Ischigualasto Provincial Park, the Ullum Dam, the Pismanta hot springs, and the pagan Difunta Correa shrine.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/San_Juan_Province   (603 words)

  
 Turismo en San Juan - Republica Argentina
Turismo Religioso y de Fe Eneste aspecto, San Juan posee destinos importantes no sólo a nivel provincial, sino nacional, como la Difunta Correa, San Expedito y el templo de San Antonio de Padua ubicado en el departamento de Sarmiento.
Distintas publicaciones de tirada nacional están exhibiendo actualmente en sus páginas notas turísticas de San Juan, en respuesta a la campaña de promoción encarada por el Gobierno de la provincia para difundir los sitios y propuestas existentes en todo el territorio provincial.
Es por eso que la revista seguirá publicando notas de San Juan en las próximas ediciones, para cuya cobertura contó con el apoyo de la Secretaría de Turismo de la provincia.
www.turismo.sanjuan.gov.ar   (498 words)

  
 MiningWatch > Mining in San Juan, Argentina: Lawsuit for threats and damages
The complaint was filed on July 7 2005, in the First Court of the province of San Juan, under law 273/05 for repeated injuries and threats against ecologist Javier Rodríguez Pardo.
The Patagonian environmentalist was present in the San Juan province at the invitation of independent citizens groups, grape growers associations, and small agricultural producers, increasingly worried about the open-pit mining of gold utilizing mixtures of toxic chemicals.
He travelled the Uco Valley in Mendoza, invited by mayors and council members; and was a guest at a small farm in Tamberías, in the San Juan department of Calingasta, where he carried out activities in support of the public referendum on mining which was finally prohibited by the provincial electoral council.
www.miningwatch.ca /index.php?/Argentina/Mining_in_San_Juan_A   (674 words)

  
 San Juan (disambiguation) - Wikitravel
San Juan (province, Argentina) - in the Cuyo region
San Juan del Sur - a port on the Pacific coast
San Juan Islands - in San Juan County (Washington)
wikitravel.org /en/San_Juan_(Argentina)   (161 words)

  
 Augusto Pulenta Winery. San Juan. Argentina
Angelo Antonio Polenta and Palma Carola Spinsanti emigrated from Italy to Argentina in October 1902.
Angelo Antonio was born on July 24, 1874, and Palma Carola in 1881 in the Santa María della Grazia parish in Ancona.
Augusto's family and business life were in San Juan, from where he managed the operations of the Peñaflor company in the Province.
www.augustopulenta.com /eng/familia.php   (540 words)

  
 Contaminación del Dique de Ullum en San Juan, Argentina - Ecoportal.net
de San Juan, se dirige al señor Defensor del Pueblo para solicitarle tenga a bien de intervenir, para que arbitre los medios necesarios administrativos y legales conducentes sobre los perjuicios derivados en la contaminación de las AGUAS DEL DIQUE DE ULLUM.
También los motores de 4 tiempos usan nafta pura sin mezcla y debido al desgaste propio del uso, liberan pequeñas cantidades de aceite del cárter que siempre pasa a la cámara de combustibles y esta al caño de escape.
de San Juan años atrás, su lucha a favor de este recurso de agua.
www.ecoportal.net /content/view/full/56564   (1859 words)

  
 Print news - IPS Inter Press Service
The Interdisciplinary Environmental Assessment Commission in San Juan, which was to issue its report in September, asked for an extension of the deadline, after Argentina's Ombudsman's Office warned that Barrick and other mining companies were offering "gifts" to hospitals and schools in the region to win local support.
Picolotti, meanwhile, has stated that she is opposed to the use of cyanide in mining, and has met with lawmakers to ask them to revise Argentina's mining legislation, which in her view is tailor-made for the mining companies.
The local residents and environmentalists in San Juan, meanwhile, plan to ask President Kirchner to overturn the country's mining laws and the Mining Integration and Complementation Treaty signed by Argentina and Chile in 1997.
www.ipsnews.net /print.asp?idnews=35228   (1138 words)

  
 Anti-Mining Protests in San Juan, Argentina
Careening along narrow, desert roads, we got a brief overview of the situation in Calingasta, a department in the Province of San Juan.
Even though the plebiscite wouldn't be legally binding, the governor of San Juan province, who actively supports mining projects in the region, banned the plebiscite and has threatened to cut funds to the department if the head it, José Adolfo Ibazeta, tries to hold a plebiscite nonetheless.
The information contrasted the $4.6 billion that Barrick gold stood to make from a mining enterprise in San Juan with the tax breaks it was receiving, the $8 million/year that was promised to Argentina, and the hundreds of millions of dollars the clean up would cost.
www.minesandcommunities.org /Action/press703.htm   (1989 words)

  
 Province of San Juan, Argentina, will receive $32.6 million IDB loan to support economic growth and job creation
Province of San Juan, Argentina, will receive $32.6 million IDB loan to support economic growth and job creation
The Inter-American Development Bank announced today a $32.6 million loan to the province of San Juan in Argentina to finance a program to promote economic growth and job creation by making supply chains more competitive and generating investment projects.
San Juan, located in western Argentina’s Cuyo region in the foothills of the Andes, has an arid climate and has traditionally been a major producer of table wines, grapes and olives, nuts and dried fruits, mining and manufacturing, as well as tourism.
www.iadb.org /NEWS/articledetail.cfm?artid=3387&language=En   (338 words)

  
 ENVIRONMENT-ARGENTINA: Gold Mine in Suspense
Calingasta is a district in San Juan located near the huge Pascua Lama mining project on the Argentine-Chilean border.
The deposit is located 150 km southeast of Vallenar, in the northern Chilean region of Atacama, and 300 km northwest of San Juan, the capital of the Argentine province of the same name.
The meeting was also attended by San Juan Governor José Luis Rioja and the federal Secretary of Mining, Jorge Mayoral, both of whom are staunch proponents of the mining projects.
www.ipsnews.net /news.asp?idnews=35228   (1297 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: San Juan (Argentina)
It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Buenos Aires and comprises the civil Provinces of San Juan, Mendoza, and San Luis, and the national district of Neuquén, has an area of 151,096 sq.
In 1826 they were constituted into a vicariate Apostolic, and on 19 Sept., 1834, Gregory XVI erected the Diocese of San Juan de Cuyo.
He was the representative from San Juan to the Congress of Tucumán, which on 9 July, 1816, proclaimed the independence of Argentina, and in this assemblage distinguished himself by resolutely opposing the monarchical form of government for the infant nation.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/13447a.htm   (365 words)

  
 San Juan Capistrano Chamber of Commerce
Junipero Serra founded the Mission San Juan Capistrano in 1776, the seventh of 21 Spanish Missions established in California by Franciscan Padres.
Today, The Mission San Juan Capistrano is a place of peace and unsurpassed beauty, its gardens a haven for lady bugs, humming birds and the famous Swallows of Capistrano who arrive every spring to nest and have their young, returning to Argentina in the Autumn.
Our selected charity for this year’s tournament is “Breakthrough San Juan” providing a unique educational opportunity for high-potential, low- income middle school-age students who attend public school in San Juan Capistrano.
www.sanjuanchamber.com   (995 words)

  
 www.cyclingnews.com - the world centre of cycling
Argentina's Jorge Giacinti (Lider) is the current race leader.
There was a breakaway built up by Angel Vallejo (Relax), Daniel Petrov, Nelson Vitorino (Duja Tavira) and Juan Aguirre (Circulo de la Policia Federal) which led by 55 seconds just past the 100 km point, but the peloton managed to draw it back over the next 20 kilometres and swallow it.
Former leader Fernando Antogna (San Luis A) currently sits second in the General Classification, 37 seconds behind Giacinti, while Francisco Mancebo (Relax) is third, 55 seconds behind the leader.
www.cyclingnews.com /road.php?id=road/2007/jan07/sanluis07/sanluis074   (296 words)

  
 Rebelion. Empresa minera de Canadá destruye montañas y cuencas hídricas en San Juan, Argentina
Otros periodistas presentes en Jáchal indicaron con naturalidad que estas prácticas "son comunes en San Juan".
Fuentes cercanas a vecinos autoconvocados indicaron que Adriana Luluaga, directora general de Jesús TV, canal 4 de San Juan, levantó el programa del Dr. Ricardo Marzanti, quien iba a poner en el aire materiales procedentes del Primer Congreso Nacional en Defensa de los Recursos Naturales realizado en Jáchal.
El Dr. Raúl Montenegro anunció que ya se había alertado a Amnesty International, y que en las próximas horas informarían lo ocurrido en San Juan "a los sindicatos de prensa del país, a la Sociedad Interamericana de Prensa, SIP, y a las organizaciones defensoras de los derechos humanos".
www.rebelion.org /noticia.php?id=6358   (1299 words)

  
 San juan argentina climate
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 Provincia de san juan argentina
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 Mission San Juan Capistrano
Mission San Juan Capistrano will present its annual Return of the Swallows celebration Sunday, March 18 to Monday March 19, 2007.
The swallows migrate annually to Goya, Argentina in October, and return to their spring and summer home in San Juan Capistrano each March.
Ballet Folklorico de San Juan Capistrano has just celebrated 14 years as a city-sponsored after school program.
www.missionsjc.com /swallowsfest.html   (1204 words)

  
 San Juan Travel: Deals and travel information for San Juan, Argentina   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-17)
San Juan Travel: Deals and travel information for San Juan, Argentina
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 San Juan province (Argentina)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-17)
The provincial shield and the legend that goes underneath fit completely within the white stripe.
Cámara de Diputados de San Juan, Ley 6.840
Artículo 1° Créase como Bandera Provincial de San Juan, al simil de la Columna Cabot del Ejército de los Andes.
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 Argentina San Juan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-17)
La belleza de su paisaje entremezclada con los valores de su gente, nunca lo podrá olvidar.
Usted seguramente regresara, San Juan y su pueblo lo estará esperando.
San Juan Argentina - Información turística y comercial sobre la provincia de San Juan cita en la Rep. Argentina.
www.argentinasanjuan.com /index.htm   (117 words)

  
 Excite - Search: San Juan Argentina
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 San Juan Hostel - San Juan, Argentina
San Juan Hostel, the best location in the heart of San Juan.
We plan to make your stay a happy and comfortable one and will provide you with any local information that you might need.
We can arrange you tours to the major San Juan places such as Valle de la Luna, Barreal, Rodeo, Difunta Correa, and the great Ullum lake.
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 Travel from Mendoza to San Juan - Argentina Travel Advice
Talampaya national park is actually in another province (La Rioja) and the standard tours may take anywhere from 2 to 4 hours.
Ischigualasto, in turn, is located within San Juan but about 330 km from the capital so it is a fairly long ride.
The highest temperature ever recorded in the city of San Juan was 40C during one November.
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 Países::Argentina::Regiones::San Juan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-17)
Características generales, actividades económicas y turismo de Provincia San Juan.
Guia de comercios, industrias y profesionales provincia de San Juan, Argentina.
Características geográficas, lugares para visitar, turismo aventura y qué comprar la provincia San Juan.
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 San Juan AR Hotels and Motels - Cheap and Luxury Hotels San Juan Argentina
Most of the hotels listed in San Juan offer discounts of up to 40% on reservations for accommodation booked on-line.
The Hotel Bahia De Las Tablas is located approximately seven miles from the San Juan Argentina Airport.
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 Préstamo BID US$32,6 millones a provincia de San Juan, Argentina, apoyará crecimiento económico y creación de empleo
El Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo anunció hoy un préstamo de 32,6 millones de dólares a la provincia de San Juan en Argentina para financiar un programa que promoverá el crecimiento económico y la generación de empleo al mejorar la competitividad de las cadenas productivas y generar proyectos de inversión.
La provincia de San Juan, situada en la región cuyana del oeste argentino en la falda de los Andes, tiene un clima desértico y su producción tradicional han sido los vinos de mesa, uvas y aceitunas, nueces y frutas secas, minería y manufacturas, así como también turismo.
El Ministerio de Producción y Desarrollo Económico de San Juan estará a cargo del proyecto.
www.iadb.org /news/articledetail.cfm?artid=3387&language=Sp   (405 words)

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