Montes De Oca (cantón)

	Montes De Oca (cantón) Montes de Oca (Spanish for ''Mounts of Goose'' or ''Hills of Goose'') may refer to: Foothills of the Golden Goose Places * Montes de Oca Canton, Costa Rica * Montes de Oca (shire), Burgos province, Spain * Montes de Oca, Santa Fe, a town in Santa Fe Province in Argentina Other uses * Montes de Oca (surname) See also * La Unión de Isidoro Montes de Oca, in Guerrero state, Mexico * Villafranca Montes de Oca, in Burgos province, Spain * Fernando Montes de Oca Fencing Hall, an indoor sports venue in Mexico City, Mexico * Oca (river) , name_etymology = , image = Río Oca.JPG , image_size = 250px , image_caption = Watershed of the Oca at Villalbos (Valle de Oca) , map = Valle del Ebro.jpg , map_size = 350 , map_cap ... , a river in the north of Spain, whose source is in Montes de Oca {{Disambiguation, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Montes De Oca Canton Montes de Oca is a Cantons of Costa Rica, canton in the San José Province, San José province of Costa Rica. The head city of the canton is San Pedro District, Montes de Oca, San Pedro. Toponymy Its name honors a former congressional representative from the area, Don Faustino Montes de Oca (1859–1902). History Montes de Oca was created on 1 August 1915 by decree 45. Geography Montes de Oca has an area of km² and a mean elevation of metres. The elongated canton reaches from the suburbs of the national capital of San José, Costa Rica, San José eastward to the province of Cartago, and neighbors the cantons of Curridabat, San José, Costa Rica, San José, Cartago Province, Cartago, and Goicoechea. The Torres River delineate a portion of the northern boundary, while the Ocloro River and Poró Creek mark the southern boundary. Districts The canton of Montes de Oca is subdivided into the following Districts of Costa Rica, districts: # San Pedro District, Montes de Oca, S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Montes De Oca (shire) Montes de Oca is a ''comarca'' located east of the province of Burgos, in the autonomous community of Castile and León. It is bounded on the north by La Bureba, south by the Sierra de la Demanda comarca, on the east by the province of La Rioja and west by the Alfoz de Burgos. History When the Roman legions arrived to the area, it was the territory of the Autrigones tribe. After the Berber withdrawal, Alfonso II's depopulation (circa 742) and the razzias undertaken at the turn of the ninth century, the Montes de Oca were repopulated mainly by Astures, Cantabri, Visigoths, and Vascones (Basques) in the mid-ninth century, although remained border between the County of Castile with the Caliphate of Córdoba and its allies for at least a century and was afterwards border between kingdom of Castile and the kingdom of Navarre till the mid-twelfth century. During this period the shire to which belonged change from one kingdom to another until finally passed to the kingdom of Castil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Montes De Oca, Santa Fe Mons (; German and nl, Bergen, ; Walloon and pcd, Mont) is a city and municipality of Wallonia, and the capital of the province of Hainaut, Belgium. Mons was made into a fortified city by Count Baldwin IV of Hainaut in the 12th century. The population grew quickly, trade flourished, and several commercial buildings were erected near the ''Grand’Place''. In 1814, King William I of the Netherlands increased the fortifications, following the fall of the First French Empire. The Industrial Revolution and coal mining made Mons a centre of heavy industry. In 1830, Belgium gained its independence and the decision was made to dismantle the fortifications, allowing the creation of large boulevards and other urban projects. On 2324 August 1914, Mons was the location of the Battle of Mons. The British were forced to retreat and the town remained occupied by the Germans until its liberation by the Canadian Corps during the final days of the war. There are several memorial placar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Santa Fe Province The Province of Santa Fe ( es, Provincia de Santa Fe, ) is a Provinces of Argentina, province of Argentina, located in the center-east of the country. Neighboring provinces are from the north clockwise Chaco Province, Chaco (divided by the 28th parallel south), Corrientes Province, Corrientes, Entre Ríos Province, Entre Ríos, Buenos Aires Province, Buenos Aires, Córdoba Province, Argentina, Córdoba, and Santiago del Estero Province, Santiago del Estero. Together with Córdoba and Entre Ríos, the province is part of the economico-political association known as the Center Region (Argentina), Center Region. Santa Fe's most important cities are Rosario (population 1,193,605), the capital Santa Fe, Argentina, Santa Fe (369,000), Rafaela (100,000), Reconquista, Santa Fe, Reconquista (99,000) Villa Gobernador Gálvez (74,000), Venado Tuerto (69,000), and Santo Tomé, Santa Fe, Santo Tomé (58,000). The adult literacy rate in the province is 96.3%. History The aboriginal tribes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Montes De Oca (surname) Montes de Oca is a Spanish surname meaning "mountains of goose". Notable people with the surname include: * Bryce Montes de Oca (born 1996), American baseball player Eliecer Montes de Oca (born 1971), Cuban baseball player Fernando Montes de Oca (1829–1847), Mexican hero Isidoro Montes de Oca Isidoro Montes de Oca (1789–1847) was a Mexican of Spanish Filipino descent who was a revolutionary general who fought in the Mexican War of Independence between 1810 and 1821. He was among the commanders of the army of Vicente Guerrero and J ... (1789–1847), Mexican-Filipino revolutionary soldier Marco Antonio Montes de Oca (1932-2009), Mexican poet and painter {{surname, Montes de Oca Spanish-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	La Unión De Isidoro Montes De Oca La Unión de Isidoro Montes de Oca is one of the 81 municipalities of Guerrero, in south-western Mexico. The municipal seat lies at La Unión. The municipality covers an area of 1,142 km². As of 2005, the municipality had a total population of 25,230. The main towns are La Unión, population 3,079; Petacalco, population 2,671; Zacatula, population 1,417; Lagunillas, population 1,371; El Naranjito, population 1,167; and Surcua, population 1,046. Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía. Principales resultados por localidad 2005 (ITER). Retrieved on December 23, 2008 History On October 26, 1614, the Dutch Captain Joris van Spilbergen - involved in his country's war with Spain - raided with an expedition of five ships this part of the coast of the then Spanish Mexico New Spain, officially the Viceroyalty of New Spain ( es, Virreinato de Nueva España, ), or Kingdom of New Spain, was an integral territorial entity of the Spanish Empire, established by Habsbur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Villafranca Montes De Oca Villafranca Montes de Oca is a municipality, former medieval bishopric and present Latin titular see located in the province of Burgos, Castile and León, northern Spain. According to the 2005 census (Instituto Nacional de Estadística (Spain), INE), the municipality has a population of 164 inhabitants. Ecclesiastical history , with incumbents It was originally known as Oca (Latin: ''Auca'') and was the seat of a (Latin Catholic) bishopric, precursor of the present the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Burgos, established no later than 589, when its bishop Asterio attended the Third Council of Toledo, but vaguer notations may trace it back as early as the 3rd century AD. Monastic life flourished there during the Visigothic Catholic Kingdom of Toledo (6th-8th century). However, in the 8th century, Arab Muslim invaders destroyed Oca, rendering its bishops errant, quoted by sources at Amaya (Burgos), Amaya, Valpuesta, Muñó, Sasamón, Oña, Gamonal, only to have their 'see' formally ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Fernando Montes De Oca Fencing Hall The Fernando Montes de Oca Fencing Hall is an indoor sports venue located in the Magdalena Mixhuca Sports City area of Mexico City. It hosted the fencing competitions and the fencing part of the modern pentathlon competition of the 1968 Summer Olympics. The Olympic Fencing Hall was built between November 13, 1967, and September, 1968, in the Magdalena Mixhuca Sports City. The 310-by-210-foot rectangular structure is covered by a convex roof of corrugated asbestos supported by steel cables. The ground floor had 15 fencing strips—each of which was provided with a two-sided scoreboard, a judges' podium and a control table—and 37 cubicles for competitors. On the south side were facilities for the press, dressing rooms, etc. The north side housed offices, a lounge, a warm-up area and additional dressing rooms and service areas. On the upper floor were grandstands with a seating capacity Seating capacity is the number of people who can be seated in a specific space, in terms of both ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]