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Ciriaco Ceballos
Ciriaco Ceballos Neto or Ciriaco Cevallos y Bustillo ( Quijano, Cantabria, 1763 - México, 1816) was a Spanish sailor, explorer and cartographer. The Zeballos River and Zeballos, British Columbia are named after him.William Glover Charting Northern Waters - 2004 Page 23 "Galiano had also served under Antonio de Cordoba y Lazo in the Santa Maria de la Cabeza during a surveying voyage in 1785-86 to the Strait of Magellan, as had Ciriaco Cevallos y Bustillo, who joined the expedition in Acapulco" References 1763 births 1816 deaths People from the Bay of Santander Spanish cartographers Spanish naval officers {{Spain-bio-stub ...
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Piélagos
Piélagos is a municipality in Cantabria Cantabria (, also , , Cantabrian: ) is an autonomous community in northern Spain with Santander as its capital city. It is called a ''comunidad histórica'', a historic community, in its current Statute of Autonomy. It is bordered on the east ..., Spain. :es:Anexo:Municipios de Cantabria References Municipalities in Cantabria {{Cantabria-geo-stub ...
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Cantabria
Cantabria (, also , , Cantabrian: ) is an autonomous community in northern Spain with Santander as its capital city. It is called a ''comunidad histórica'', a historic community, in its current Statute of Autonomy. It is bordered on the east by the Basque autonomous community (province of Biscay), on the south by Castile and León ( provinces of León, Palencia and Burgos), on the west by the Principality of Asturias, and on the north by the Cantabrian Sea (Bay of Biscay). Cantabria belongs to ''Green Spain'', the name given to the strip of land between the Bay of Biscay and the Cantabrian Mountains, so called because of its particularly lush vegetation, due to the wet and moderate oceanic climate. The climate is strongly influenced by Atlantic Ocean winds trapped by the mountains; the average annual precipitation is about . Cantabria has archaeological sites from the Upper Paleolithic period, although the first signs of human occupation date from the Lower Paleolithic. ...
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