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Cerrillos Lake And Dam
Cerrillos may refer to: *Argentina **Cerrillos Department, Salta Province **Cerrillos, Argentina *Chile **Cerrillos, Chile *Puerto Rico **Cerrillos, Ponce, Puerto Rico *United States **Los Cerrillos, New Mexico *Uruguay **Cerrillos, Uruguay Cerrillos or Los Cerrillos is a very small city in the west part of the Canelones Department of southern Uruguay. Cerrillos is also the name of the municipality to which the city belongs. It was created on 15 March 2010 by the Act of Ley Nº 18. ... ;See also * Los Cerrillos (other) {{geodis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Argentina
Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina covers an area of , making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, the fourth-largest country in the Americas, and the eighth-largest country in the world. It shares the bulk of the Southern Cone with Chile to the west, and is also bordered by Bolivia and Paraguay to the north, Brazil to the northeast, Uruguay and the South Atlantic Ocean to the east, and the Drake Passage to the south. Argentina is a federal state subdivided into twenty-three provinces, and one autonomous city, which is the federal capital and largest city of the nation, Buenos Aires. The provinces and the capital have their own constitutions, but exist under a federal system. Argentina claims sovereignty over the Falkland Islands, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, and a part of Antarctica. The earliest recorded human prese ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cerrillos Department
Cerrillos is a department of Salta Province, Argentina, located near Salta city. Its capital is the town of Cerrillos. Geography Localities and places: * Cerrillos * La Merced * San Agustín * Sumalao * Villa Los Álamos See also *Tren a las Nubes *Salta–Antofagasta railway The Salta–Antofagasta railway, also named Huaytiquina, is a non-electrified single track railway line that links Argentina and Chile passing through the Andes. It is a railway with a total length of 941 km (571 in Argentina and 330 in Chi ... References External links Cerrillos Department on Salta Province website Departments of Salta Province {{Salta-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salta Province
Salta () is a province of Argentina, located in the northwest of the country. Neighboring provinces are from the east clockwise Formosa, Chaco, Santiago del Estero, Tucumán and Catamarca. It also surrounds Jujuy. To the north it borders Bolivia and Paraguay and to the west lies Chile. History Before the Spanish conquest, numerous native peoples (now called Diaguitas and Calchaquíes) lived in the valleys of what is now Salta Province; they formed many different tribes, the Quilmes and Humahuacas among them, which all shared the Cacán language. The Atacamas lived in the Puna, and the Wichís (Matacos), in the Chaco region. The first conquistador to venture into the area was Diego de Almagro in 1535; he was followed by Diego de Rojas. Hernando de Lerma founded San Felipe de Lerma in 1582, following orders of the viceroy Francisco de Toledo, Count of Oropesa; the name of the city was soon changed to "San Felipe de Salta". By 1650, the city had around five hundred inhabitan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cerrillos, Argentina
Cerrillos is a city in the province of Salta, Argentina. It has about 18,000 inhabitants as per the , and it is the head town of the Cerrillos Department Cerrillos is a department of Salta Province, Argentina, located near Salta city. Its capital is the town of Cerrillos. Geography Localities and places: * Cerrillos * La Merced * San Agustín * Sumalao * Villa Los Álamos See also *Tren .... It is located just 15 km south of the city of Salta, capital of the province. Climate References * Populated places in Salta Province {{Salta-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chile
Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in the western part of South America. It is the southernmost country in the world, and the closest to Antarctica, occupying a long and narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. Chile covers an area of , with a population of 17.5 million as of 2017. It shares land borders with Peru to the north, Bolivia to the north-east, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far south. Chile also controls the Pacific islands of Juan Fernández, Isla Salas y Gómez, Desventuradas, and Easter Island in Oceania. It also claims about of Antarctica under the Chilean Antarctic Territory. The country's capital and largest city is Santiago, and its national language is Spanish. Spain conquered and colonized the region in the mid-16th century, replacing Inca rule, but failing to conquer the independent Mapuche who inhabited what is now south-central Chile. In 1818, after declaring in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cerrillos, Chile
Cerrillos (English: Hillocks) is a commune of Chile located in a midtown area of Santiago and the southwest of the city — in the Santiago Province, Santiago Metropolitan Region — as a spot of the conurbation of Santiago. The commune was created in 1991 from a subdivision of Maipú. Administration As a commune, Cerrillos is a third-level administrative division of Chile administered by a municipal council, headed by an alcalde who is directly elected every four years. The 2012-2016 mayor is Arturo Aguirre Gacitúa ( PS), and the council has the following members: * Juan De Dios Jiménez Retamal ( RN) * Orfilia Castro Tobar ( PPD) * María Luisa Figueroa Garrido ( PS) * Cecilia Foncea Astudillo ( DC) * Felipe Martinez Calderón (IND) * Guillermo Reeves Iriarte ( RN) Within the electoral divisions of Chile, Cerillos is represented in the Chamber of Deputies as a part of the 20th electoral district (together with Estación Central and Maipú). The commune is represented in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico (; abbreviated PR; tnq, Boriken, ''Borinquen''), officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico ( es, link=yes, Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, lit=Free Associated State of Puerto Rico), is a Caribbean island and Unincorporated territories of the United States, unincorporated territory of the United States. It is located in the northeast Caribbean Sea, approximately southeast of Miami, Florida, between the Dominican Republic and the United States Virgin Islands, U.S. Virgin Islands, and includes the eponymous main island and several smaller islands, such as Isla de Mona, Mona, Culebra, Puerto Rico, Culebra, and Vieques, Puerto Rico, Vieques. It has roughly 3.2 million residents, and its Capital city, capital and Municipalities of Puerto Rico, most populous city is San Juan, Puerto Rico, San Juan. Spanish language, Spanish and English language, English are the official languages of the executive branch of government, though Spanish predominates. Puerto Rico ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cerrillos (Ponce)
Cerrillos is one of the 31 barrios of the municipality of Ponce, Puerto Rico. Along with Magueyes, Tibes, Portugués, Montes Llanos, Maragüez, and Machuelo Arriba, Cerrillos is one of the municipality's seven interior rural barrios. It was founded in 1878. Location Cerrillos is located in the eastern section of the municipality, northeast of the city of Ponce, at latitude 18.050848 N, and longitude -66.576027 W. Boundaries Cerrillos is bounded on the North by the hills north of route PR-587 and Río Cerrillos, on the South by El Monte Street (roughly), Guilarte Street (roughly), and Madrid Street (roughly), on the West by Río Cerrillos, and on the East by the hills east of PR-587, the eastern edge of Lake Number 5, and Palmarejo Road. In terms of barrio-to-barrio boundaries, Cerrillos is bounded on the North by barrios Maragüez and Real, in the South by barrios Sabanetas and Coto Laurel, in the West by barrio Machuelo Arriba, and in the East by barrios Real and Coto Laur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States
The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territories, nine Minor Outlying Islands, and 326 Indian reservations. The United States is also in free association with three Pacific Island sovereign states: the Federated States of Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau. It is the world's third-largest country by both land and total area. It shares land borders with Canada to its north and with Mexico to its south and has maritime borders with the Bahamas, Cuba, Russia, and other nations. With a population of over 333 million, it is the most populous country in the Americas and the third most populous in the world. The national capital of the United States is Washington, D.C. and its most populous city and principal financial center is New York City. Paleo-Americ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Los Cerrillos, New Mexico
Los Cerrillos is a census-designated place (CDP) in Santa Fe County, New Mexico, United States. It is part of the Santa Fe, New Mexico Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 229 at the 2000 census. Accessible from State Highway 14 or ''The Turquoise Trail,'' Cerrillos is on the road from Santa Fe to Albuquerque, closer to Santa Fe. There are several shops and galleries, a post office, and the Cerrillos Hills State Park, which has five miles of hiking trails. The Cerrillos Turquoise Mining Museum contains hundreds of artifacts from the American Old West and the Cerrillos Mining District. It also displays cardboard cutouts of characters from the film '' Young Guns'' and information on other movies which have been filmed in and around Cerrillos. This is a good place to view Cerrillos Turquoise from the Browns' turquoise claim, The Little Chalchihuitl. Geography Los Cerrillos is located at (35.437160, -106.126711). Los Cerrillos is referred to as Cerrillos by local res ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uruguay
Uruguay (; ), officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay ( es, República Oriental del Uruguay), is a country in South America. It shares borders with Argentina to its west and southwest and Brazil to its north and northeast; while bordering the Río de la Plata to the south and the Atlantic Ocean to the southeast. It is part of the Southern Cone region of South America. Uruguay covers an area of approximately and has a population of an estimated 3.4 million, of whom around 2 million live in the metropolitan area of its capital and largest city, Montevideo. The area that became Uruguay was first inhabited by groups of hunter–gatherers 13,000 years ago. The predominant tribe at the moment of the arrival of Europeans was the Charrúa people, when the Portuguese first established Colónia do Sacramento in 1680; Uruguay was colonized by Europeans late relative to neighboring countries. The Spanish founded Montevideo as a military stronghold in the early 18th century bec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cerrillos, Uruguay
Cerrillos or Los Cerrillos is a very small city in the west part of the Canelones Department of southern Uruguay. Cerrillos is also the name of the municipality to which the city belongs. It was created on 15 March 2010 by the Act of Ley Nº 18.653. It comprises the electoral districts CCA and CEB of Canelones department. The localities Campo Militar, Sofía Santos, Las Brujas and Parador Tajes are parts of this municipality. Geography Location The city is located on the intersection of Route 36 with Route 46, about southwest of the city of Canelones and north west of the centre of Montevideo. History It was founded on 3 August 1896. On 5 July 1907, its status was elevated to "Pueblo" (village) by the Act of Ley N° 3.188, and on 23 October 1958 to "Villa" by the Act of Ley N° 12.581. Finally, on 20 July 1971, it received the status of "Ciudad" (city) by decree N° Ley 13.990. Population In 2011 Cerrillos had a population of 2,508. In 2010, the ''Intendencia de Canelones'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
