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  Place:Santa Cruz Province, Argentina - Genealogy
Santa Cruz is a province of Argentina, located in the south of the country, in the Patagonia.
It borders the province Chubut to the north, and Chile to the west and south.
The strike was severely and harshly repressed by the government, culminating in the events of the Patagonia Trágica ("Tragic Patagonia"), the execution of tens of strikers.
werelate.org /wiki/Place:Santa_Cruz_Province,_Argentina   (538 words)

  
  Santa Cruz Province (Argentina) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Santa Cruz is a province of Argentina, located in the south of the country, in the Patagonia.
It borders the province Chubut to the north, and Chile to the west and south.
Santa Cruz most visited destination is the Los Glaciares National Park and a number of glacier of wich the Perito Moreno Glacier is the most famous.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Santa_Cruz_Province,_Argentina   (1046 words)

  
 Santa Cruz province (Argentina)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
It’s a raising sun, symbol of the youth of this province.
The Flag of the Provincia de Santa Cruz was first raised on October 12th of 2000 at El Chaltén, town of 200 habitants located at the feet of the Cerro from which took its name.
The central mountain in both the flag and the coat of arms of Santa Cruz is the Mount Fitz Roy or Mount Chaltén (Chaltén is the indigenous name and it is the name usually heard nowadays).
fotw.vexillum.com /flags/ar-z.html   (606 words)

  
 Boston.com / News / World / Latin America/Caribbean / After Unrest, Bolivia Province Eyes June Election   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
SANTA CRUZ, Bolivia (Reuters) - Bolivian florist Marisol Rioja went on strike, marched in rallies and saw her sales slip during nearly three weeks of protests for more independence in her native Santa Cruz province.
Santa Cruz, an affluent, energy-rich region 550 miles from La Paz on the sweltering eastern plains, has been at the heart of the campaign for autonomy.
The Santa Cruz protests were the latest test for Mesa, a former TV newsman with little congressional backing who came to office after an October 2003 indigenous uprising ousted the former president.
www.boston.com /news/world/latinamerica/articles/2005/01/29/after_unrest_bolivia_province_eyes_june_election?mode=PF   (511 words)

  
 Argentina's Elections: Who is Nestor Kirchner? - PRAVDA.Ru   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Rio Gallegos is the small Capital City of Santa Cruz Province, closer to Antarctica than to the Equator line, where he was born in the bosom of a Catholic German family.
However, his opponents argue that Santa Cruz is very easy to administrate, as it is almost empty and holds vast energetic resources, including huge oil and gas basins.
In fact, Santa Cruz, located in Southern Patagonia is one of Argentina's less populated areas: 159,726 inhabitants in 243,943 square kilometers.
english.pravda.ru /printed.html?news_id=9879   (645 words)

  
 Santa Cruz de Tenerife (province) - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Santa Cruz de Tenerife (province)
Province of Spain in the Canary Islands autonomous community; area 3,209 sq km/1,239 sq mi; population (1995) 787,400.
Santa Cruz de La Palma, Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Santa Cruz de Tenerife
encyclopedia.farlex.com /Santa+Cruz+de+Tenerife+(province)   (155 words)

  
 Puerto Deseado Santa Cruz
It is the port of bigger fishing activity of the province.
In this region of the Atlantic coast there are very important populations of birds and marine mammals besides the typical fauna (gumps, ‘choiques’, hares, gray foxes, bustards, ‘piches’), and the government of Santa Cruz's province has created several natural reservations including the Deseado Creek one.
There are several creeks in the coast, frequented by the fanatics of the fishing of the shark (they come from other points of the country and from the exterior), where you can obtain pieces of great size.
www.patagonias.net /Cities/PuertoDeseado.htm   (242 words)

  
 The Provincial Profile of Marinduque
The province posesses 10,744 hectares of forests that are the main source of nito, buri, bamboo and soft wood.
The province is richly blessed with large deposits of copper, iron, and manganese, as well as limestone and clay.
The province is primarily an area of farming and fishing communities.
www.geocities.com /lppsec/pp/marinduque.htm   (1279 words)

  
 USGS Open File Report 99-50-C The Santa Cruz - Tarija Province(Forward)
These provinces have been ranked according to the discovered petroleum volumes within each; 76 "priority" provinces (exclusive of the U.S. and chosen for their high ranking) and 26 "boutique" provinces (exclusive of the U.S. and chosen for various reasons) were selected for appraisal of oil and gas resources.
Province history is that of a Paleozoic, intracratonic, siliciclastic rift basin that evolved into a Miocene (Andean) foreland fold and thrust belt.
The Santa Cruz — Tarija Province of Bolivia, Argentina and Paraguay is named for two larger cities that approximately define its north-south geographic limits within the eastern Andean region of central South America.
greenwood.cr.usgs.gov /energy/WorldEnergy/OF99-50C   (978 words)

  
 Santa Cruz Province, Travel and Hotel Information - Argentina Contact
Santa Cruz is the southerwest province of the patagonian continental territory.
In 1884 Santa Cruz was founded and three years later Puerto Gallegos.
Its main rivers are: the Desado, the Chico, the Santa Cruz, the Coig and the Gallegos.
www.argentinacontact.com /en/conozca/santaCruz.php   (209 words)

  
 Bloomberg.com: Latin America   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Kirchner, who was governor of Santa Cruz from 1991 to 2003, is turning to his home state and to Venezuela for help in refinancing about $1.7 billion of debt that will mature before year-end.
Santa Cruz's current governor, Sergio Acevedo, served as the head of intelligence under Kirchner in the province.
Santa Cruz is purchasing the bonds ``because of the relationship it has with the national government and because that's who it takes orders from,'' Marongiu said.
feeds.theeuropenews.net /?rid=9ab4cf76be04c5d1&cat=88176adfdf246af5&f=1   (433 words)

  
 Santa Cruz Property
In Santa Cruz, Argentex holds mineral rights to 11 highly prospective properties comprising 49,285 hectares of land.
The properties are located in southern Argentina at an approximate latitude of 49° degrees, approximately 1,700 kilometers from the capital Buenos Aires.
The Santa Cruz properties are located in the Patagonia region of Southern Argentina in a physiographic province referred to as the Deseado Massif.
www.argentexmining.com /santacruz.asp   (93 words)

  
 Hotels in Seville, Spain. Accommodation in the town of Seville. Paradors,hotels,hostels,rural accommodation.
El Petit Palace Santa Cruz is located in an ancient mansion of the XVII Century, in San Bartolomé Area, ancient Jewish quarter of Sevilla, very close to the Cathedral, in the most touristic and centrally situated area of the city; Between Santa Cruz and San Bartolomé Distritc.
It is situated in the Santa Cruz quarter, beside the historic Jewish quarter and Seville's oldest synagogue.
Near the historic Macarena Wall and Santa Cruz quarter, the hotel is housed in a building built near the beginning of the 19th century.
www.123casa.com /andalucia/hotelssevilla.htm   (3802 words)

  
 Santa Cruz California Hotel Information
Santa Cruz is a "typical" California beach town.
These days, Santa Cruz is a mix of a University town and a local town.
UCSC (University of California, Santa Cruz) is located "up the hill" on the West Side of town.
www.santacruzhotels.info   (292 words)

  
 MercoPress - Falklands-Malvinas & South Atlantic News
Santa Cruz province in Argentine Patagonia are considering the future implementation of a cooperation project for the development of aquaculture activities with funding from South Korea.
Since Santa Cruz has neither an aquaculture development or qualified workers cooperation with South Korea should provide funds and technology for a future industry in the Patagonian province, argues Ms.
Several Fisheries organisations from the Patagonian province of Chubut are in disagreement with some of the items included in Resolution 675/04 from the Argentine Fisheries Department which allocated hubbsi hake catch quotas to the domestic fleet for the rest of year.
www.falkland-malvinas.com /Detalle.asp?NUM=4092   (1235 words)

  
 Pristine Argentine region is enticing tourists
Entrepreneurs are flocking to Santa Cruz province, the home base of Argentina's new president, Nestor Kirchner, the nation's first leader to hail from Patagonia.
Despite the gold-rush atmosphere, things have been slow to change in Santa Cruz, a province as big as Wyoming but with less than half the population.
Los Glaciares National Park, in southwestern Santa Cruz, is home to an ice field from which four glaciers stem.
www.freep.com /news/nw/dpatag29_20040129.htm   (753 words)

  
 Santa Cruz province (Argentina)
The flag is celeste with white waves on dark blue in lower part (similar to the Kiribati flag) with a yellow sun.
The Flag of the Provincia de Santa Cruz was first raised on October 12th of 2000 at El Chaltén, town of 200 habitants located at the feet of the Cerro from which took its name.
The flag of Santa Cruz province is shown in the movie Historias minimas, by Carlos Serón (2002).
www.allstates-flag.com /fotw/flags/ar-z.html   (476 words)

  
 Business Wire: Minera Andes - Phase II Drilling Program Begins... @ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Santa Cruz Province in southern Patagonia is emerging as the leading precious metals exploration region in Argentina.
In addition to ongoing exploration and development by larger companies, a number of junior exploration companies are also active in the Santa Cruz gold belt of Patagonia.
The Corporation is presently pursuing the further development of its epithermal silver/gold discovery in Santa Cruz Province.
www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?docid=1G1:20507505&refid=ink_tptd_np   (898 words)

  
 Santa Cruz province - Argentina
Perito Moreno glacier - Southwestern of Santa Cruz
While the center of the province is a barren steppe because of the low precipitations level.
Climate: In the western region, throughout the Mountain range of the Andes, the climate is of humid cold type.
www.argentour.com /SantaCruz.htm   (337 words)

  
 argentina tour operator with tour packages to patagonia estancias   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
of the Belgrano Lake, in Santa Cruz Province.
The inn is a bunch of bungalows with utter comfort, established for the guests to enjoy the beauty of the land, the lake, the environment and the silence.
230 kms from Perito Moreno, in Santa Cruz Province.
www.argentinatours.com /alltourpackages/estanciasinpatagonia.htm   (1151 words)

  
 SOL Holy Week, SEVILLA - SOL Spain On Line
Like the April fair, Semana Santa (holy week/easter) has been one of the most important celebrations in Seville since centuries.
The Cofradías (Brotherhoods or Fraternities) process in penitence through the (many narrow) streets of the city, from their church to the Cathedral and back, taking the shortest possible route, as decreed in the rule of the ordinances by Cardenal Niño de Guevara in the 17th century.
A first (small) step to understanding Semana Santa in Seville, is knowing what a procession is about.
www.sol.com /en/modulo.asp?IdContenido=169&IdProvincia=41   (279 words)

  
 Business Wire: Minera Andes - Encouraging Precious Metals Valu... @ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The drilling planned for the fourth quarter of 1997 in Santa Cruz Province is a part of an extensive exploration drilling program in Argentina forecast by Minera Andes.
The Santa Cruz program would follow successful surface sampling at two properties where application has been made for mineral rights.
At the Cerro Saavedra property, limited rock chip sampling has revealed up to 8.5 g/t (0.25 oz/t) gold and 2,458 g/t (71.68 oz/t) silver from a 10 meter composite chip sample of silicified Jurassic volcanic rocks exposed in a small window through thin overlying post-mineral basalt cover.
www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:19505977&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf   (1055 words)

  
 americas.org - Landless Campesinos Shot   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
On December 11, Bolivian army troops clashed with landless campesinos occupying an estate in Yapacaní, Santa Cruz Province; 16 people were injured, six of them by bullets fired by the troops.
The December 11 clash coincided with a 24-hour province-wide civic strike by Santa Cruz residents demanding greater attention to the region’s needs.
On December 12 in the city of Cochabamba, in the province of the same name, angry vendors rallied in protest when police agents tried to forcibly eject private security guards from the “La Cancha” market; during the confrontation, police shot a passerby, Edgar Vidal, who died in the hospital.
www.americas.org /item_7403   (320 words)

  
 americas.org - One Killed in Land Conflict   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Late on November 16 or early on November 17, at least 30 hooded and armed assailants entered the Los Yukis union settlement in Ichilo Province, some 70 kilometers from Yapacaní in Santa Cruz Province, Bolivia.
In a November 14 attack in Sara Province, former deputy mayor Angel Paz sent 10 hired killers to destroy homes and crops in the campesino settlement of the New Jerusalem union.
Salvatierra criticized a group of farmers and ranchers who marched on November 19 to the Santa Cruz offices of the National Agrarian Reform Institute (INRA) to demand the agency stop restoring indigenous land rights.
www.americas.org /item_8104   (400 words)

  
 Boston.com / News / World / Latin America/Caribbean / Bolivian Province Wants Independence   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Protesters in Bolivia's wealthy Santa Cruz province stepped up their pressure on President Carlos Mesa on Friday by announcing plans to set up their own separatist government and break ties with the capital, La Paz.
LA PAZ, Bolivia (Reuters) - Protesters in Bolivia's wealthy Santa Cruz province stepped up their pressure on President Carlos Mesa on Friday by announcing plans to set up their own separatist government and break ties with the capital, La Paz.
However, those concessions failed to satisfy opposition groups in affluent Santa Cruz 550 miles southeast of the capital, where a European-descended conservative elite not only wants the fuel price hikes fully reversed and Mesa's resignation but wants to manage its own affairs without interference from La Paz.
www.boston.com /news/world/latinamerica/articles/2005/01/21/besieged_bolivian_president_faces_more_upheaval?mode=PF   (537 words)

  
 Business Wire: Argentex Highlights South American Properties with Major Discovery Potential, Mobilizes 2004 Exploration ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Located in the physiographic province known as the Deseado Massif, the area is located some 1,700 kilometers southwest of the Argentinean capital Buenos Aires.
Other Argentex properties in Santa Cruz province are also considered highly prospective because of their proximity to the known epithermal gold-silver mineralization in the Deseado Massif and their position within the regional structural framework.
Located in the Los Menucos Gold District in the physiographic province known as the Somuncura Massif, this area is still in the early exploration stages.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2004_March_22/ai_114481236   (662 words)

  
 MercoPress - Falklands-Malvinas & South Atlantic News
The Chilean Agriculture and Livestock Service, SAG, are concerned with the outbreak of scab to the south of the Santa Cruz river, in the province of Santa Cruz, next to Magallanes Region, an area normally free of the parasite.
In the border crossings Santa Cruz sheep headed for Tierra del Fuego through Chilean territory must have an anti-parasite certificate, a big AR painted in their backs and trucks sealed.
Apparently as far as SAG officials have been able to collect, the outbreak is not so recent and was originated in a flock transported to the south of river Santa Cruz from a scab endemic area.
www.falkland-malvinas.com /Detalle.asp?NUM=3371   (3635 words)

  
 Liberia Costa Rica Guanacaste
The handicrafts of Guaitil de Santa Cruz and San Vicente de Nicoya are made of pure clay using the traditional and ancient techniques of the Chorotega indigenous group.
Located in Santa Bárbara de Santa Cruz, adjacent to the Colegio, Casa del Sol is a project promoting solar energy use.
Located within Santa Rosa National Park's Murciélago sector, this beach is on the Santa Elena Peninsula, the geologically oldest region in Costa Rica.
www.costarica-ecotourism.com /guanacaste.htm   (2214 words)

  
 Minera Andes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
One of Argentina's least explored provinces, new attention is being directed to Santa Cruz.
Minera Andes' geologists are especially interested in the western portion of Mendoza Province, which shows potential to host epithermal skarn gold deposits.
Exploration drilling in western Chubut Province is forecast for the second half of 1998.
www.thebullandbear.com /minera/projects.html   (320 words)

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