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  Valle del Cauca travel guide - Wikitravel
Valle del Cauca is a department of Colombia.
Cali (Santiago de Cali) - the capital of the department of Valle del Cauca.
Personal safety in the Valle del Cauca Department is a major priority, especially in the rural areas near the cities of Pradera, Florida, and Palmira.
wikitravel.org /en/Valle_del_Cauca   (275 words)

  
  Valle del Cauca - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Valle del Cauca is a department of Colombia.
The department is known for its sugar industry, which provides sugar to the markets of the rest of the country and nearby countries.
The capital of the department is Santiago de Cali, with approximately 2,200,000 inhabitants, was founded by Sebastián de Belalcázar in 1536.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Valle_del_Cauca   (290 words)

  
 City of Irvine Website - 04-19572
The driver of the Ford Mustang, Javier Valle, a 23-year-old resident of San Bernardino, was uninjured and released from the scene pending the completion of the investigation.
Upon completion of the investigation performed by the Irvine Police Department, the Orange County District Attorney’s Office issued a warrant for Valle’s arrest for vehicular manslaughter.
Valle will be held pending his arraignment at the Orange County Harbor Justice Center in Newport Beach.
www.ci.irvine.ca.us /ipd/press_releases/04_19572.asp   (191 words)

  
 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for valle   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
It was established as a settlement in 1530 by Hernán Cortés, who had received the Valle de Toluca as a grant from Emperor Charles V. Generation of '98 The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition...
Studying disability and disability studies: shifting paradigms of--a synthesis of responses to Reid and Valle.
Interrupting the discourse: a response to Reid and Valle.
www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=valle&StartAt=11   (779 words)

  
 2nd District, Miguel del Valle   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Senator del Valle was born in Puerto Rico and grew up in the West Town and Humboldt Park areas.
Senator del Valle is widely known as an advocate of reform in the areas of education, health care and human services.
As an outspoken voice for increased Latino representation in the legislative and judicial branches of government, his leadership in redistricting cases in 1981, 1991 and 2001 led to the creation of Latino majority districts on the city, county and state levels.
www.senatedem.state.il.us /delvalle   (412 words)

  
 Honduras Departments
I have found sources for the populations of the departments in the censuses of 1881, 1895, and 2001, and more details of nineteenth-century changes.
Aside from that, the departments are further subdivided into 298 municipalities (282 in 1980, 291 in 1995).
Choluteca corresponded roughly to modern Choluteca and Valle; Comayagua, to Comayagua and La Paz; Gracias, to Copán, Intibucá, Lempira, and Ocotepeque; Olancho, to Olancho; Santa Bárbara, to Cortés and Santa Bárbara; Tegucigalpa, to El Paraíso and Francisco Morazán; and Yoro, to Atlántida, Colón, Gracias a Dios, Islas de la Bahía, and Yoro.
www.statoids.com /uhn.html   (610 words)

  
 Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia - Jane's International Security News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The mayor of the Yondo municipality in the Antioquia department was kidnapped by FARC.
The registrar, Henry Cano Estrada, was kidnapped by the ELN in Cantagallos, Bolivar department.
A judge from Cartagena del Chaira, in the southern Caqueta department, was kidnapped by FARC guerrillas.
www.janes.com /security/international_security/news/jwit/jwit001019_2_n.shtml   (11969 words)

  
 Rio Fernando Volunteer Fire Department
Fire department personel and engine 4 remained on standby at the head of the bypass until the scene was cleared.
This occured near Las Petacas campground while department personel were on scene in response to a call regarding a campfire.
The department attempted to locate the source of the smoke well into the night, but could not pin it down amongst the trees in the dark.
laplaza.org /~rffd/RFFD/news.htm   (1768 words)

  
 Colombia - Municipalities - Index   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
It could be that each Department chose what proportion to use for their municipal flags or maybe not.
Necoclí, a Municipality of the Department of Antioquia.
A curious comment arises because Santa María La Antígua del Darién (which ceased to exist in 1524) is officially recognized as the first modern city in the American Continent (because it was the first true civilized village with its proper authorities and permanent population, not a garrison as San Sebastián de Urabá is considered today).
www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/co-muni.html   (798 words)

  
 Coalition for the Valle Vidal -- New Mexico -- an Endangered American Treasure
Valle Vidal was traded to the Forest Service in 1982 by Pennzoil Co. in exchange for $20 million in tax considerations.
The Valle Vidal, located in Taos and Colfax counties, is home to one of the largest elk herds in the state and has been described as an outdoorsman's paradise.
The Valle Vidal, one of the most scenic outdoor-recreation areas in the state, is home to New Mexico's largest elk herd and the Rio Grande cutthroat trout, the state fish.
www.vallevidal.org /news.html   (5546 words)

  
 Untitled Document   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Contrary to the optimistic date given for the removal of the barricades blocking access to the Valle Verde campus, set for later this year, conflicting and vague statements by many of the parties involved are raising more questions than answers.
Dan Williams Construction Co. recently released a statement to notify the EPCC Police Department of the possibilities of opening the North Loop entrance to the Valle Verde campus as early as this December.
Details from both the DOT and Water Utilities Spokespersons are not clear on which of these departments carries the responsibility of the repair costs or if the allotted budget included drainage design miscalculations.
www.epcc.edu /ftp/Homes/elcon/110404x0.htm   (335 words)

  
 TSPR Del Valle Independent School District - Chapter 11
The department, in conjunction with the DVISD technology committee and established campus technology committees, determines district technology needs, develops technology standards and plans the procurement and implementation of administrative and instructional technology resources.
The primary link between the Technology and Instructional Department is through the campus and district technology committees, which have been inactive over the last year, and the campus technologist whose primary responsibility is computer repair and troubleshooting, not integrating technology and curriculum.
The MIS director requests that department staff identify and document procedures specific to each of their department responsibilities and provides department staff with an outline and example of the end product.
www.window.state.tx.us /tspr/delvalle/chapt11b.htm   (1608 words)

  
 Via de la Valle | Planning Department   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Via de la Valle is located in the northwestern region of the City of San Diego and is situated just east of Interstate 5, south of the City of Solana Beach and west of the county of San Diego.
The community is characterized by steep canyons running in a north-south direction and separated by narrow ridges and bluffs.
The north/south ridges and canyons, which front on Via de la Valle, are visible from Interstate 5, the San Dieguito River Valley and the southern bluffs of the Carmel Valley community.
www.sandiego.gov /planning/profiles/viadelavalle.shtml   (436 words)

  
 Inter-American Human Rights Database   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
That on September 11, 1972, agents of the National Police, in the company of the civilian Henrey Bernet, appeared at the "Yarumito" ranch in the Municipality of Anserma (Department of Valle) and arbitrarily arrested the farm worker Rafael Osorio Rendón.
That on June 3, 1973, in the municipality of El Dovio (Department of Valle), the secretary of the Asociación Municipal de Usuarios Campesinos, Mr.
That on June 20, 1972, in La Unión (Department of Valle), a police inspector fired at 70 farm workers who were returning from work, wounding 25 of them as well as a child and causing a miscarriage as a result of the wounds.
www.wcl.american.edu /humright/digest/1974/case1765.cfm?&print_page=1   (1711 words)

  
 Del Valle Regional Park
Del Valle Lake is located 10 miles south of Livermore off Interstate 580 in the San Francisco East Bay area.
The water level at Del Valle Lake fluctuates seasonally from a high of 703 feet in the summer to a low of 678 feet in the winter.
The marina provides Department of Fish and Game fishing license and the East Bay Regional fishing permit, bait and tackle, and a boat rental fleet of motorboats, patio boats, peddle boats, canoes, and row boats.
www.rockymountainrec.com /lakes/lake-delvalle.htm   (487 words)

  
 Florida Entomologist, v. 82, n. 1, p. 113
During a project directed to determine the diversity of species of Anastrepha in some localities of the Department of Valle del Cauca, 26 species of Anastrepha were recovered from different host plants and also caught in McPhail traps.
Many fruits were collected from about 13 municipalities of the Department of Valle del Cauca, but only the samples obtained from the municipalities of Buenaventura, Jamundí, La Cumbre and Yumbo were considered in this study, in which at least one parasitoid was recovered besides the Anastrepha fruit fly.
The specimens were deposited in the Museum of Entomology at the Universidad del Valle (Department of Biology, Cali-Colombia).
www.fcla.edu /FlaEnt/fe82p113.htm   (1947 words)

  
 Valle department - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Valle is one of the 18 departments into which the Central American nation of Honduras is divided.
The department covers a total surface area of 1,565 km² and, in 1991, had an estimated population of 121,000.
This page was last modified 21:36, 30 October 2005.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Valle_department   (62 words)

  
 THE "SIXTH DIVISION": Military-paramilitary Ties and U.S. Policy in Colombia (Human Rights Watch Report, October 2001)
After establishing itself in central Valle, the AUC began to push south and west, targeting the road connecting the city of Cali to Colombia's main port of Buenaventura.
Yesterday, we attacked several villages outside Buenaventura in the department of Valle, and in other hamlets that belong to Cauca, and we killed fourteen FARC guerrillas in combat and executed twelve guerrillas dressed in civilian clothes.
You, governor, represent the department's highest authority and you are shamelessly strengthening guerrillas in Cauca department.
www.hrw.org /reports/2001/colombia/2.3.htm   (5269 words)

  
 Valle Vista Fire District @ Firehouse.com Network
Valle Vista Fire District proudly protects 2500 people living in an area of 18 square miles.
Our department is a public department whose members are on a combination of paid and volunteer status.
Our department was founded 19 years ago and operated as a volunteer department for 15 of those years.
departments.firehouse.com /dept/Kingman3AZ   (175 words)

  
 University of Minnesota Human Rights Library
In the municipality of Apartado, Department of Antioquia, DIONISIO BOLIVAR, a banana worker on the El Congo plantation and a member of SINTRAINAGRO, was assaulted by gunmen on Tuesday, March 13, and died on Wednesday, March 14.
JOSE ALIRIO RODRIGUEZ, a teacher at the Santa Cecilia rural school (municipal contract teacher) in the municipality of Landázuri, department of Santander, was killed on October 9 in the village of El Estanco in that same municipality and department.
On November 20, BORIS ZAPATA MESA, professor at the University of Córdoba, was shot and killed in the main square of Montería, capital of the department of Córdoba.
www1.umn.edu /humanrts/iachr/country-reports/colombia1993-ch8.html   (6260 words)

  
 ISN Security Watch - Buenaventura: A cocaine export center
Yet it is clear that the city has fallen under the control of former paramilitary combatants who in 1999 joined together to remove the guerrillas from the Valle de Cauca department and retain control over the areas that surround Buenaventura.
“Valle de Cauca is probably the most narco department of all of Colombia right now with so many smaller organizations, and a lot of them work hand-in-glove with the so-called former paramilitary organizations, mainly the Calima [Front],” Isacson said.
He likely gained business from the Norte de Valle Cartel and then the mini-cartels that followed because his organization focused on consolidation and shipment, which allowed his clients to focus on procurement, processing, security and packaging.
www.isn.ethz.ch /news/sw/details.cfm?id=16600   (1860 words)

  
 The Alto Naya Massacre: Another Paramilitary Outrage
The district of Alto Naya on the border of the southwestern Colombian departments of Cauca and Valle experienced a savage three day paramilitary onslaught between April 10 and 13 leaving an estimated 120 people dead and more than 4,000 displaced.
It is believed that on this date a further 4,000 people were trapped in the area by paramilitary roadblocks that were preventing anyone from entering or leaving the region.
It is interesting to note that when the FARC attacked the town of Funes in neighbouring Nariño department on April 13, as the massacre in Alto Naya was in full swing, the "over-stretched" Third Brigade, backed by helicopter gunships, responded within three hours.
www.colombiajournal.org /colombia64.htm   (1158 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Cali
Cali is a city, district, and province in the Department of Valle.
The Province of Valle is bounded on the north by the Province of Arboleda, on the south by
Santander (Department of Cauca), on the east by Palmira, and includes the districts of
www.newadvent.org /cathen/16016b.htm   (299 words)

  
 Situation Reports: Colombia: Earthquake - Nov 2004, Colombia: Earthquake Information Bulletin No. 01/2004
In the municipality of Pizarro, in the department of Choco, at least four houses were destroyed, 12 houses were damaged and three people were injured.
The earthquake was also felt in the city of Cali, in the department of Valle del Cauca, which is the second largest city in the country with more than two million inhabitants.
Of particular concern are populations in the department of Choco and in the Pacific coastal region.
www.reliefweb.int /w/rwb.nsf/0/DFF70D6056979A2349256F4F00090B67?OpenDocument   (1118 words)

  
 Del Valle News - Topix
Del Valle Independent School District isn't the friendliest of school districts for the Hispanic community.
Del Valle is one of the latest districts to adopt the protocol, which entails running a Texas- or U.S.-issued ID or driver's license through a sex offender database.
Easterling, a geometry teacher at Del Valle High School, was placed on administrative leave pending the outcome of the investigation.
www.topix.net /city/del-valle-tx   (687 words)

  
 CLUI - Emergency State: Del Valle   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Del Valle is located on a hill top and uses 160 acres of land that the county bought from Unocal in 1984.
There are industrial props (including a portion of an oil refinery), vehicle accident props(including propane-powered bus collisions and a collapsed building prop (detail)), concrete slab cutting props, shoring training props, confined space rescue props (detail), and other urban search and rescue facilities.
There is also a hazmat training area with railcars and a chemical storage building, and a fire extinguisher training area.
www.clui.org /clui_4_1/ondisplay/emergency/exhibit/es2.html   (184 words)

  
 CLUI - Emergency State: Los Angeles City Fire Department   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The LA City Fire Department’s main training center for “In-service” training (training for fire department personnel, not new recruits) is in a grand art deco building near Dodger Stadium that once housed a Naval and Marine Corps Reserve Center.
In 1995, the building was vacated by the military, and transferred to the Fire Department.
It is named after a firefighter who died while fighting a fire there in 1980, by falling through a fire-weakened roof.
www.clui.org /clui_4_1/ondisplay/emergency/exhibit/es9.html   (328 words)

  
 PVCC Puma Press: March 2003
Dance instructor, Sonia Valle, at front, leads dancers for the PVCC Dance Company in a practice session in February.
According to Valle, the dance company was created to give dance students the opportunity to have the experience of performance as a part of their dance training.
The members then trained for their end of the semester concert, which was held Dec. 13, 14 and 15 and sold out all three nights.
www.pvc.maricopa.edu /puma/mar03/dance.html   (268 words)

  
 Tusayan Fire Department counts record calls
Tusayan Fire Department reported its busiest year on record last year, finishing 2006 with 279 calls.
A number of those have been out of district, south of Valle and up onto Highway 180 as the department fills the gap for the defunct Valle Department.
The department also recently received a $4,400 Rural Fire Assistance Grant which they used to purchase three BendixKing digital radios to help them keep pace with proposed upgrades in the park.
www.grandcanyonnews.com /main.asp?SectionID=7&SubSectionID=7&ArticleID=6390   (668 words)

  
 CALI
Cali, the third largest city on the Cali River in western Colombia, has a population of 1,397,433 (1985), one of the Country's oldest founded by Sebastian de Belalcazar in 1536.
It is the capital of the department of Valle, It is a center of trade, industry, and transportation for a rich agricultural region.
Cali is the administrative center for the Cauca valley development project, which is modeled on the Tennessee Valley Authority.
home1.gte.net /gomezedg/Cali.htm   (720 words)

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