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  Zapala, Argentinian Patagonia
You may have already met the difference between the vigorous green of the Alto Valle and the transition to the Patagonian steppe that completely changes the view.
The name Zapala seems to originate in the aboriginal term “Chapala”, formed by the prefix “Chapa”, which means swamp or mud, and “lau”:, the short form for Lauquen.
But according to others the origin is "trapal", a bulrush that grows in Zapala stream.
www.interpatagonia.com /zapala/index_i.html   (201 words)

  
  Zapala - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Zapala is a city in the Patagonian province of Neuquén, Argentina.
Zapala is near the Laguna Blanca National Park and a ski resort.
Zapala was founded on 12 July 1913 as a train station for the Ferrocarril del Sud (now Ferrocarril General Roca).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Zapala   (209 words)

  
 Zapala
We live in Zapala, in the state of Neuquen in Argentina.We are 32 students in the class.We come in the morning from 7:45am to 1:00pm.We are 15 boys and 16 girls.
In 1913 the Railway was working, and with the train came Arturo Trannak's sons, that gave away the railwaylands to build the station and to form the town.The railway line was opened officialy on the 2nd January of 1914.In 1983 the Police Station opened, and the first police chief was Mr Pio Ferreyra.
The park is in the patagonian plateau in the Province of Neuquin 30 km of Zapala city.
www.skiptonps.vic.edu.au /history/zapala.htm   (737 words)

  
 Spartanburg SC | GoUpstate.com | Spartanburg Herald-Journal   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Zapala is near the Laguna Blanca National Park and a ski resort.
The region (known as Pehuenia, and comprising Zapala, the nearby town of Aluminé and others) is a steppe, with small araucaria forests.
Zapala was founded on 12 July 1913 as a train station for the Ferrocarril del Sud (now Ferrocarril General Roca).
www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Zapala   (175 words)

  
 Zapala Patagonia Argentina   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Zapala: Informacion turística de esta hermosa area donde se pueden realizar muchas actividades incluyendo rafting, kayaking y pesca con mosca.
ZAPALA es la tercera ciudad en importancia de la provincia del Neuquén con 30.000 habitantes aprox.
Esta accesibilidad al noroeste, a los pasos fronterizos, a la zona de bosques y lagos, a las áreas mineras y ganaderas, convierten a Zapala en un centro receptor, distribuidor y transformador de materias primas regionales, así como en un interesante lugar de paso y descanso para los viajeros.
www.patagonias.net /Ciudades/Zapala.htm   (165 words)

  
 Fareed and Zapala Marketing Partners
Nina Zapala has a knack for zeroing in on the useful ideas and practical methods that are making a difference in the world of hospitality marketing.
Zapala is also a member of the American Advertising Federation (AAF), the American Hotel and Lodging Association (AHandLA), the Association of Travel Marketing Executives (ATME), the Caribbean Hotel Association (CHA), the Hospitality Sales and Marketing Association International (HSMAI), and a longstanding member of the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA).
Zapala welcomes her new partnership with John Fareed, as she sees it as the next step in evolving not only her career, but also the business of marketing public relations.
www.fareedandzapala.com /zapala.html   (317 words)

  
 WCA - Richard Zapala Apppointed to Funds Board of Trustees
Richard F. Zapala was recently appointed by Governor Jennifer Granholm to the Funds Administration's Board of Trustees.
Zapala is the Assistant General Counsel at the Accident Fund Insurance Company of America, and will represent the insurance industry in the state of Michigan for a term expiring April 30, 2010.
Zapala's second appointment to the Funds Administration's Board of Trustees.
www.michigan.gov /wca/0,1607,7-191--161711--,00.html   (130 words)

  
 Zapala - Inversiones y negocios - Neuquén, Patagonia argentina   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Ya en el año 1913, se aprueba una propuesta de loteo presentada por una familia de apellido Trannack, propietaria de la estancia Zapala, motivo por el cual se toma a esa fecha como fundación, considerando a sus hijos como los fundadores.
Posterior a la llegada del ferrocarril, el 2 de febrero del año 1914, Zapala fue concentrando una fuerte inmigración de extranjeros provenientes principalmente de chile, Siria, Libia e Italia.
A grandes rasgos, Zapala constituye desde el punto de vista productivo, un centro de acopio regional del sector agropecuario.
www.patagonialands.com /zapala/index.html   (274 words)

  
 Zapala - Wikipedia
Zapala ist eine Stadt im südwestlichen Argentinien, gelegen im Westen der Provinz Neuquén.
Zapala ist mit der 189 km östlich gelegenen Provinzhauptstadt Neuquén über die Nationalstraße Ruta Nacional 22 verbunden.
Bei Zapala wird diese Straße von der Ruta Nacional 40 in Nord-Süd-Richtung gekreuzt.
de.wikipedia.org /wiki/Zapala   (171 words)

  
 Zapala, Argentina - Patagonia Argentina
You may have already met the difference between the vigorous green of the Alto Valle and the transition to the Patagonian steppe that completely changes the view.
The name Zapala seems to originate in the aboriginal term “Chapala”, formed by the prefix “Chapa”, which means swamp or mud, and “lau”:, the short form for Lauquen.
But according to others the origin is "trapal", a bulrush that grows in Zapala stream.
www.welcomeargentina.com /zapala/index_i.html   (197 words)

  
 zapala   (Site not responding. Last check: )
A 30Km de Zapala y en camino a Aluminé por Ruta Nº 46, se puede disfrutar una zona muy especial.
A partir de Zapala, viajando por la Ruta Nacional Nº 22 hay un desvío a la izquierda aproximadamente a 2Km; tomando allí la Ruta Provincial Nº 13 pavimentada, se llega, luego de recorrer 50Km, al parque de esquí Primeros Pinos.
Zapala cuenta con una atrayente página informativa publicada en Internet que puede ser visitada en la siguiente dirección: http://www.zapala.com.ar donde se pueden conoocer en profundidad algunos de los puntos comentados en esta hoja.
www.neuquen.gov.ar /org/municipalidades/zapala.htm   (966 words)

  
 ZAPALA - COMERCIO TURISMO INDUSTRIA CUERPO PATAGONIA
Zapala se encuentra ubicada en el centro de la Provincia del Neuquén, al Noroeste de la Patagonia Argentina.
A rasgos generales, Zapala constituye desde el punto de vista productivo, un centro de acopio regional del sector agropecuario.
Zapala encuentra un lugar distinguido dentro de la comunidad cultural y cientifica contando entre otros con el
www.zapala.com.ar /cuerpo.html   (250 words)

  
 What to do in Zapala Patagonia Argentina   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Primeros Pinos is located in the first brunches of the mountain range, 50 kilometers to the west of Zapala by a route that drives toward the lake Aluminé.
It is an ideal place for those that want to begin in the practice of the ski, enjoying it in family.
To the National Park ‘Laguna Blanca’: it is located 30 kilometers to the Southwest of the city of Zapala by the provincial route #46.
www.patagonias.net /Cities/What-to-do/Zapala.htm   (179 words)

  
 Zapala - Anuncios de Habitaciones, Cuartos y Pisos Compartidos   (Site not responding. Last check: )
OKroommate Zapala es un buscador poderoso especializado en el sector de la búsqueda de habitaciónes, compañeros de pisos y pisos compartidos.
OKroommate Zapala es un nuevo líder internacional en anuncios especializados en alquiler de cuarto y en Zapala.
En OKroommate Zapala, estamos orgullosos de ofrecerte un nuevo buscador ingenioso dirigido por una inteligencia artificial que se adapta a los criterios del sector de los pisos compartidos.
www.okroommate.com /cities/zapala_neuqueen.aspx   (450 words)

  
 Voladuras y evacuados en Zapala y Las Lajas
Los fuertes vientos obligaron a vecinos de Zapala a autoevacuarse y, en Las Lajas, a ser evacuados.
ZAPALA y LAS LAJAS (AZ).-Un temporal de viento con ráfagas de 128 kilómetros por hora azotó ayer por la tarde el centro neuquino.
En Zapala se registraron voladuras de techos, caídas de árboles y postes y cortes intermitentes en el servicio telefónico y de energía eléctrica.
www.rionegro.com.ar /diario/2006/09/10/20069v10b11.php   (548 words)

  
 Zapala Patagonia Argentina   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Zapala: Travel guide featuring hotels listings, trips description, maps and services.
This accessibility to the northwest, to the border steps, to the area of forests and lakes, to the mining and cattle areas, they convert to Zapala in a receiving center, distributor and transformer of regional matters, as well as in an interesting place in passing and resting for the travelers.
Located 1012 meters over the sea level in full semi-arid plateau, the dry and windy continental climate and the steppe vegetation, they frame it highly in a landscape of the patagonia.
www.patagonias.net /Cities/Zapala.htm   (154 words)

  
 United Nations Human Rights Website - Treaty Bodies Database - Document - Jurisprudence - Uruguay
She submitted the communication on behalf of her father, Rosario Pietraroia (or Roya) Zapala, a 68-year-old Uruguayan citizen, a former trade-union leader and alternate member of the Chamber of Deputies in the Uruguayan Parliament, at present detained in Uruguay.
She states that from his' early youth her father had worked as a lathe operator, that he had held the post of General-Secretary of the National Union of Metal and Allied Workers and that he had been Vice-President of the Trade Unions International of Workers in the Metal Industry.
13.2 Rosario Pietraroia Zapala was arrested in Uruguay, without a warrant for arrest, early in 1976 (according to the author on 19 January 1976; according to the State party on 7 March 1976), and held incommunicado under the "prompt security measures" for four to six months.
www.unhchr.ch /tbs/doc.nsf/(Symbol)/89381ac4f4bf09fac1256ab20047b0e5?Opendocument   (2717 words)

  
 Auditory Electrophysiology Laboratory
Zapala, D., Gould, H., & Mendel, M. Place specific influences on the wave I to V interpeak latency of the auditory brain-stem response.
Zapala, D., Gould, H., and Mendel, M. Place specific influences on the wave I to V interpeak latency of the auditory brain-stem response.
Zapala, D., Gould, H., and Mendel, M., Frequency specificity: CN VIII and wave V of the ABR.
www.ausp.memphis.edu /ael   (1444 words)

  
 Stanford's Stingy Defense To Be Tested Against SMU
Those numbers will be put to perhaps the most rigorous test of the year this evening when the Cardinal, the tournament's No. 3 seed, host SMU in a quarterfinal match at New Maloney Field.
Clark brought a gritty, never-say-die attitude, honed from his 20 years of playing in his native Scotland and on the world stage in three World Cup tournaments in the 1970s, to Stanford and his troops have readily and eagerly bought into that mentality.
Said Zapala: "You have to get the players' belief to win things, and from Day 1 we had the belief we could win things.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/12/02/SP139620.DTL&type=printable   (799 words)

  
 Laguna Blanca National Park - PATAGONIA-ARGENTINA.COM
It was created in 1945 with the purpose of controlling too many fl necked swans that were building their nests in the area.
To get to this National Park you must take route 22 from Neuquen to Zapala and then National Route 40 up to the crossing with Provincial Route 46, which traverses the Park.
From Zapala to the park there are 32 Km.
www.patagonia-argentina.com /i/content/parques/parques1.htm   (225 words)

  
 TAX SALES/TITLE UNDERWRITING/DUTY TO DEFEND
Carl Zapala and his wife purchased the subject property, a single family residence in suburban Islip (Suffolk County), New York in 1971.
On no less than four occasions, a foreclosure sale was scheduled and rescheduled to give Zapala an opportunity to satisfy his mortgage debt to the Dime Savings Bank.
After Botallico commenced eviction proceedings, Zapala moved to set aside the foreclosure sale on the grounds that the bid price was grossly insufficient so as to "shock the conscience of the court", a standard articulated by New York courts.
www.firstam.com /landsakes/html/email/042399taxsales.html   (1221 words)

  
 Engler Appoints Zapala to Self-Insurers Board   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Governor John Engler today announced the appointment of Richard F. Zapala to the Self-Insureres, Security, Second Injury, Silicosis and Dust Disease and Logging Industry Compensation Fund Board of Trustees.
Zapala, of East Lansing, is the assistant general counsel in charge of the Accident Fund's legal department.
Zapala earned his bachelors degree in business administration from Michigan State University and his juris doctor degree from the University of Detroit.
www.state.mi.us /migov/gov/PressReleases/199612/selfinsu.html   (127 words)

  
 3er Festival Nacional de Teatro
Zapala y San Martin de los Andes fueron los epicentros de este sismo teatral humorístico con alcances que sacudieron a Neuquén capital, Junin de los Andes y Villa la Angostura.
A ellos se unieron teatristas neuquinos mostrando sus creaciones actorales y comisiones de apoyo que desde Neuquén, Zapala y San Martin sumaron brazos extendidos para un Festival que derramó risas, convocó al público masivamente y cerró en medio de un cúmulo de emociones intensas y enriquecedoras.
Llegaron casi tres días antes a Zapala y se pusieron a trabajar a la par de Hugo, prepararon comidas, coordinaron reuniones de trabajo, atendieron boleterías, confeccionaron boredereaux, laburaron a full, son nuestras, son argentinas, aquí las mostramos:
www.norpatagonia.com /hueney/recuperadas/3er_festiva.a.htm   (1468 words)

  
 Three Men's Soccer Players Named SoccerTimes.com All-Americans :: Lee Morrison, Ryan Nelsen and Adam Zapala earn honors.
A member of the New Zealand National Team, Nelsen was also chosen as the the 2000 Collegiate Men's Soccer NSCAA/adidas Scholar Athlete of the Year.
Zapala, the most prolific goalkeeper in Stanford history, earned All-Conference and regional All-America honors following a season in which he set school records with 16 shutouts and a nation-best 0.45 GAA.
Zapala leaves The Farm with eight school career or single-season records: career GAA (0.63), career minutes (8111:34), career shutouts (52), career games played (86, tied with teammate Corey Woolfolk), career games started (86), single-season GAA (0.45 in 2000), single-season minutes (2377:00 in 1998) and single-season shutouts (16 in 2000).
gostanford.cstv.com /sports/m-soccer/spec-rel/011801aaa.html   (300 words)

  
 Teradata Magazine | Details make the difference
Until recently, researchers such as Barlow and Zapala were severely limited in terms of the amount of data they could generate.
But as work began on the project, funded by a grant from the National Institutes of Health, Barlow and Lockhart realized the double-edged nature of microarray technology—it was generating more information than they ever could possibly hope to manage and analyze given the existing computing capabilities in most neuroscience research facilities.
Zapala sums up the situation succinctly: “The vast amount of information generated from microarrays has been both a great strength and a frustrating weakness.
www.teradata.com /t/page/115166/index.html   (2874 words)

  
 Amenaza de conflicto por expropiación de tierras en Zapala 6-08-03
Se trata de 200 hectáreas cerca de Zapala, afectadas al Trasandino del Sur.
Según informó el legislador, oriundo de Zapala, el organismo provincial determinó en 174 mil pesos la cotización de esas hectáreas.
Por eso, los legisladores decidieron ayer durante la reunión de esa comisión parlamentaria invitar al intendente de Zapala, Raúl Podestá, para que explique los alcances del proyecto que declara de utilidad pública y sujetas a expropiación esas tierras.
www.rionegro.com.ar /arch200308/r06j24.html   (589 words)

  
 - NCAA Sports.com
Korol, who scored twice in the semifinal, had two chances to restore the margin before halftime, and he made good on the second.
Zapala had turned Korol away after a brilliant run to the right corner of the goal.
But when Matt Fundenberger later mis-hit a shot and the ball went to Korol, the junior rolled it past Zapala to make it 3-1 with 48 seconds left.
www.ncaasports.com /soccer/mens/story/arc_story/18068   (482 words)

  
 WCFcourier.com | BREAKING: 3rd restaurant owner arrested on immigration charges; restaurant in Missouri also raided
Zapala, who owns 50 percent of the business and is its president and chairman, was charged with harboring and engaging in a practice of employing illegal aliens in U.S. District Court in Cedar Rapids.
He said Zapala told him to travel to Iowa to help reopen the Cedar Falls restaurant after the raid, records state.
Other than the nine, only Zapala, his girlfriend and another person were working at the business, records state.
www.wcfcourier.com /articles/2006/05/11/news/breaking_news/doc4463a77e2c81b179875872.txt   (1342 words)

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