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Cedros BC
Cedros, Portuguese and Spanish for ''cedars'', may refer to the following places: Honduras * Cedros, Francisco Morazán, a municipality in the Department of Francisco Morazán Mexico *Cedros Island, an island in the State of Baja California Portugal *Cedros (Horta), a civil parish in the municipality of Horta, island of Faial, Azores *Cedros (Santa Cruz das Flores), a civil parish in the municipality of Santa Cruz das Flores, island of Flores, Azores Trinidad and Tobago *Cedros, Trinidad and Tobago The coastal area known as Cedros lies on a peninsula at the South-Western end of the island of Trinidad. Located at the tip of the peninsula, Cedros or Bonasse as it is more commonly known especially on maps, lies mere miles off the coast of Venez ..., the southwestern peninsula of the island of Trinidad, as well as a town on that peninsula Cuba * Los Cedros, Santiago de Cuba, a hamlet in Palma Soriano {{geodis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cedros, Francisco Morazán
Cedros () is a Municipalities of Honduras, municipality in the Honduras, Honduran Departments of Honduras, department of Francisco Morazán department, Francisco Morazán. It is located 77 kilometers (paved road) from Tegucigalpa in an area of rolling hills with tropical pine forests. Municipalities of the Francisco Morazán Department {{Honduras-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cedros Island
Cedros Island (''Isla de Cedros'', "island of cedars" in Spanish) is an island in the Pacific Ocean belonging to the state of Baja California, Mexico. The dry and rocky island had a population of 1,350 in 2005 and has an area of which includes the area of several small nearby islands. Cedros Island is mountainous, reaching a maximum elevation of . The economy is based on commercial fishing and salt production. Cedros has a distinctive flora and the traces of some of the earliest human beings in the New World. The ocean around the island is popular with sport fishermen. There was human presence of the island already about 11,000 years ago. The American Indian inhabitants when the island was first visited by Spanish explorers in the 16th century called it Huamalgua, the "Island of Fogs." The Indian inhabitants have been given the name Huamalgueños by modern day scholars. They were relocated to the mainland of Baja California by Jesuit missionaries in 1732 and ceased to exist a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cedros (Horta)
Cedros is a ''freguesia'' ("civil parish") in the northern part of the municipality of Horta on the island of Faial in the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores. The population in 2011 was 907, in an area of . The northernmost parish on the island, it is located northwest of Horta and is linked via the ''Estrada Regional E.R. 1-1ª'' roadway to the rest of the island. The tree-covered hills and pasture-lands cover the interior, and hedged farmlands extend to the Atlantic coastline cliffs, a natural plateau above the sea, that was settled by early Flemish and Spanish colonists in the late part of the 15th century. Primarily an agricultural community, the population is comparable in size to other parishes on the island, though this has decreased by half since the 1950s (when there were approximately 2000 inhabitants). Today, it remains an agricultural centre of the island of Faial, anchored by the ''Cooperativa Agrícola dos Lactícinios do Faial'', one of the primary rural industri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cedros (Santa Cruz Das Flores)
Cedros is a Portuguese civil parish in the municipality of Santa Cruz das Flores, on the island of Flores in the Azores. The population in 2021 was 112, in an area of approximately . History Due to the difficulties associated with the region, its cliffs and climate in particular, settlement of this area developed during the late 15th century. From a small circle of three to four families, Cedros grew to about thirty neighbors by about 1715, according to Father António Cordeiro. The same author referred to the existence of the hamlet of Ponta Ruiva with a few residents and a small port, which were integrated into the parish of São Pedro (in Ponta Delgada, Santa Cruz das Flores) at the time. Although Cedros was considered a "breadbasket" of the region, it had an important place in the economy of the island for the abundance of the Azorean cedar (''cedros-do-mato'') because its lumber was used in the construction of ships for fishing, for the early homes and the implements used ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cedros, Trinidad And Tobago
The coastal area known as Cedros lies on a peninsula at the South-Western end of the island of Trinidad. Located at the tip of the peninsula, Cedros or Bonasse as it is more commonly known especially on maps, lies mere miles off the coast of Venezuela, and is the most southern point in the Caribbean. According to a Trinidad Guardian article, "Cedros is the closest legal point of entry to Venezuelans wishing to enter Trinidad and Tobago." Economic history Cedros has historically been a fishing village and coconut grove, producing much of the coconuts for harvest. Widely considered on the island as a rural area, the proximity of Cedros to the South American mainland has led to many drug cartels from South America trying to bring their cargoes via the Gulf of Paria into the Caribbean region or though Cedros. As a countermeasure to suppress the drug trade using Venezuela, the Venezuelan government routinely sends gunships to patrol the waters between Trinidad and Tobago and Venezuela ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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