Luro Park Natural Preserve
Luro may refer to: Places * Lurö, an island in Säffle Municipality, Värmland County, Sweden *Luro Administrative Post, an administrative post in the Lautém Municipality of East Timor * Luro (suco), suco in Luro Subdistrict *''Luro'' or Lygra, an island in Alver Municipality in Vestland County, Norway *Villa Luro, a barrio (district) of Buenos Aires, Argentina People *Horatio Luro, a thoroughbred horse racing trainer in the United States *Pedro Luro Pedro Luro was born in Gamarthe, France, on March 10, 1820 and died in Cannes, France, on Feb 28, 1890. He immigrated to Argentina in 1837 and worked in a 'saladero,' a manufacturing facility designed to produce salted and dried meat, as a rural ...

Luro Administrative Post
Luro, officially Luro Administrative Post (, ), is an administrative post (and was formerly a subdistrict) in Lautém municipality, East Timor; Luro is also the name of two of its towns (Upper and Lower Luro). The main river of the administrative post is the Adafuro, running between Wairoque and Cotamutu and through Afabubu. Principal crops grown in the subdistrict include corn, rice, coconuts, cassava and other vegetables. History In June 2001 there were severe floods in East Timor, which affected the Luro area. At the end of August 2011, four people died in a clash between two martial arts groups in Baricafa. As a result, Prime Minister Xanana Gusmão ordered the closure of the martial arts clubs. Geography Luro is situated in eastern East Timor in Lautém Municipality. The district covers an area of and as of 2015 it had a population of 7,124 people. Luro lies in a valley surrounded by hills and smaller mountains. Legumau (Legumaw, Apara) in the Suco of Lacawa is the ...
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Luro (suco)
Luro may refer to: Places * Lurö, an island in Säffle Municipality, Värmland County, Sweden *Luro Administrative Post, an administrative post in the Lautém Municipality of East Timor * Luro (suco), suco in Luro Subdistrict *''Luro'' or Lygra, an island in Alver Municipality in Vestland County, Norway *Villa Luro, a barrio (district) of Buenos Aires, Argentina People *Horatio Luro, a thoroughbred horse racing trainer in the United States *Pedro Luro Pedro Luro was born in Gamarthe, France, on March 10, 1820 and died in Cannes, France, on Feb 28, 1890. He immigrated to Argentina in 1837 and worked in a 'saladero,' a manufacturing facility designed to produce salted and dried meat, as a rural ...

Luro Subdistrict
Luro, officially Luro Administrative Post (, ), is an administrative post (and was formerly a subdistrict) in Lautém municipality, East Timor; Luro is also the name of two of its towns (Upper and Lower Luro). The main river of the administrative post is the Adafuro, running between Wairoque and Cotamutu and through Afabubu. Principal crops grown in the subdistrict include corn, rice, coconuts, cassava and other vegetables. History In June 2001 there were severe floods in East Timor, which affected the Luro area. At the end of August 2011, four people died in a clash between two martial arts groups in Baricafa. As a result, Prime Minister Xanana Gusmão ordered the closure of the martial arts clubs. Geography Luro is situated in eastern East Timor in Lautém Municipality. The district covers an area of and as of 2015 it had a population of 7,124 people. Luro lies in a valley surrounded by hills and smaller mountains. Legumau (Legumaw, Apara) in the Suco of Lacawa is the high ...
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Lygra
Luro or Lygra is an island in Alver Municipality in Vestland county, Norway. The island sits in the Lurefjorden which cuts into the Lindås peninsula. There is one road on the island that continues over a short bridge onto the mainland. The bridge was built in 1972. The island has been the site of Lygra Church since the Middle Ages. There are Viking Age tombstones that are still standing on the island. The Heathland Centre is located on Lygra. It is an information centre about the cultural landscape in this coastal area. There are nearly of heathland that are managed in traditional ways by local farmers. See also *List of islands of Norway References

Islands of Vestland Alver (municipality) {{Vestland-island-stub ...
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Villa Luro
Villa Luro is a '' barrio'' (district) of Buenos Aires, Argentina. It is located near the western end of the City of Buenos Aires. The district owes its name to Dr. Pedro Luro, a prominent local physician and real-estate developer who, during the 1870s, sold most of his property in the area as residential lots. The neighborhood, which at the time was on the outskirts of the city, grew rapidly following the inaugural in 1911 of the Buenos Aires Western Railway's Villa Luro station (today a stop along the Sarmiento Line The Sarmiento line is a broad gauge commuter rail service in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, run by the state-owned Trenes Argentinos since 11 September 2013. History This line had previously been run by the state-owned company Ferrocarriles ...). The district's largest park, Plaza Ejército de los Andes, was opened in 1939. A defunct Western Railway line that divided the neighbourhood diagonally was converted into the Avenida del Justicialismo in 1951, an ...
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Horatio Luro
Horatio A. Luro (February 27, 1901 - December 16, 1991) was a thoroughbred horse racing trainer in the United States. Luro was born in Argentina as one of nine children into the wealthy family of rancher and meat packer Adolfo Luro. The family had been involved for several generations with the lucrative business of polo horses, and Horatio Luro grew up as something of a playboy and maintained this lifestyle after moving to the United States. Well connected, he was friends with the social and business elite who could afford to be involved in the costly sport of thoroughbred racing. One of those elite was Canada's E. P. Taylor (1901–1989), chairman of a giant business conglomerate, the founder of the Jockey Club of Canada, and later the president of the National Thoroughbred Racing Association. Taylor hired Luro to run his Windfields Farm, a large breeding and racing operation with two farms in Ontario and another in Chesapeake City, Maryland. In a career that spanned 48 years fr ...
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