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Ajo
Ajo, Ajó, or AJO may refer to: Places * Ajo, Arizona, a census-designated place in Pima County, Arizona, US ** Ajo Peak, a mountain peak in southern Arizona ** Little Ajo Mountains, a mountain range in southern Arizona ** Ajo Unified School District ** Ajo High School ** Ajo Air Force Station, a closed US Air Force General Surveillance Radar station in southern Arizona ** ''Ajo Copper News'', a weekly community newspaper serving western Pima County, Arizona * Ajo, Cantabria, the capital of Bareyo municipality in Cantabria, Spain *Mar de Ajó, a coastal city in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina * Ajó, an alternate name for General Lavalle, a town in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina People * Aki Ajo (born 1968), Finnish motorcycle racer ** Ajo Motorsport, a motorcycle racing team named after Aki Ajo * Niklas Ajo (born 1994), Finnish motorcycle racer, eldest son of Aki Ajo Other uses * Finlandia-Ajo, an annual Group One harness event * Corona Municipal Airport, which has ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ajo, Arizona
Ajo ( ) is an unincorporated community in Pima County, Arizona, United States. It is the closest community to Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument. The population was 3,304 at the 2010 census. Ajo is located on State Route 85 just from the Mexican border. History ''Ajo'' is the Spanish word for garlic (). The Spanish may have named the place using the familiar word in place of the similar-sounding O'odham word for paint (''oʼoho''). The Tohono O'odham people obtained red paint pigments from the area. Native Americans, Spaniards, and Americans have all extracted mineral wealth from Ajo's abundant ore deposits. In the early nineteenth century, there was a Spanish mine nicknamed "Old Bat Hole" that was abandoned due to Indian raids. Tom Childs, Sr., found the deserted mine complete with a shaft, mesquite ladders, and rawhide buckets in 1847. He did not stay long at that time, because he was on his way to the silver mines near Magdalena de Kino, Sonora. Thirty-five ye ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Finlandia-Ajo
Finlandia-Ajo ("Finlandia Race") is an annual Group One harness event that takes place at Vermo Racetrack in Espoo, Finland. The competition, which was inaugurated in 1980, is regarded as Finland's biggest trotting event. It is raced over the mile, 1,609 meters. Finlandia-Ajo is part of the European Grand Circuit and the overall purse for the 2009 event was €190,000, equalling approximately US$247,000. Racing conditions Finlandia-Ajo is decided through a one-mile race. The first eight years (1980-1987), the race was over a slightly shorter distance (1,600 meters, 0.99 mile), but since 1988, the distance has been one mile. The race has always been started by the use of auto start. Past winners Horses with most wins * 2 - Giesolo de Lou (1999, 2000) * 2 - Napoletano (1988, 1989) Drivers with most wins * 4 - Jean-Michel Bazire (2005, 2008, 2009, 2011) * 3 - Stig H. Johansson (1988, 1989, 2004) * 3 - Jorma Kontio (1985, 1986, 2007) * 2 - Olle Goop (1983, 1987) * 2 - Joseph Verbe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ajo Unified School District
Ajo School District 15 And 103 is a public school district in Pima County, Arizona Pima County ( ) is a county in the south central region of the U.S. state of Arizona. As of the 2020 census, the population was 1,043,433, making it Arizona's second-most populous county. The county seat is Tucson, where most of the population ..., United States. External links * School districts in Pima County, Arizona {{Arizona-school-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ajo High School
Ajo High School is a high school in Ajo, Arizona. It is the only high school in the Ajo Unified School District Ajo School District 15 And 103 is a public school district in Pima County, Arizona Pima County ( ) is a county in the south central region of the U.S. state of Arizona. As of the 2020 census, the population was 1,043,433, making it Arizona' ..., which also includes an elementary school and middle school on the same campus. It is a member of the CAA. References Public high schools in Arizona Schools in Pima County, Arizona {{Arizona-school-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mar De Ajó
Mar de Ajó is a coastal city in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, and is located in the southern end of the seaside La Costa Partido (the Coast District). The region is known as the Tuju Corner (Rincón del Tuyú). Etymology It owes its name to a word used by the Guarani aborigines who inhabited the area, whose meaning is ''Soft Mud''. During the arrival in 1580 of the Paraguayan Hernando Arias de Saavedra to the shores of the mouth of the Río de la Plata with the Atlantic Ocean, his expedition made use of the collaboration of a group of evangelized Guarani indigenous people, who identified this area with the word ''Tuju'', a term in Guarani that indicated the presence of white mud on the coasts and bottom of the river, for this reason, this place ended up being known as the Rincón del Tuyú. There's the Ria Ajó, which was identified by the Guarani with the term ''Ajo'', which alluded to the soft white mud of its bed, which made the terrain unstable when it came to traversing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ajo Motorsport
Ajo Motorsport is a Finnish Grand Prix motorcycle racing team, currently competing in the Moto2 and Moto3 classes under the name Red Bull KTM Ajo and in the MotoE class under the name Avant Ajo MotoE. The team's founder and principal is former racer Aki Ajo. His son, former racer Niklas Ajo, is also involved in the team as crew chief and race engineer in the Moto3 programme. The team debuted in 2001 and took its first win in 2003. Ajo Motorsport has won eight world championship titles; the 125cc championship with Mike Di Meglio in 2008 and Marc Márquez in 2010, the Moto3 championship in 2012 with Sandro Cortese, 2016 with Brad Binder and 2021 with Pedro Acosta, and the Moto2 championship in 2015 and 2016, both with Johann Zarco, and 2021 with Remy Gardner. History The team's debut at a world championship race was at Sachsenring in 2001, where the team entered Mika Kallio as a wildcard rider. The team and Kallio also took part in the competition in Valencia later in the year. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ajo Peak
Ajo Peak ( ood, S-vepegĭ moʼokam or To:lo Vipidoḍ We:co) is a mountain peak in southern Arizona, in the north-and-east Sonoran Desert. Two peaks are nearby, Cardigan Peak at and North Ajo Peak . The mountain peak, located about north of Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument reaches in height. Ajo, Arizona in the central-east of the mountains; ( named in Spanish for garlic), is the access point for the entire central areas of the Little Ajo Mountains, including Ajo Peak. Water divide mountain range Ajo Peak as part of the Little Ajo Mountains forms part of a water divide, and splits into three directions – (a "Triple Divide"), part of two drainages. The Growler Valley and the ''San Cristobal Wash Drainage'' go south-west-north from the Ajo Peaks; also northwest; these two directions skirt the Little Ajo and Growler Mountain ranges. The second drainage goes from the northeast, is northwest trending through the east perimeter of the Childs Valley and forms the headwaters t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Little Ajo Mountains
The Little Ajo Mountains is a mountain range in southern Arizona, in extreme western Pima County, Arizona. The city of Ajo sits on the northeast of this small mountain range. Both the mountain range and city take their name from the Spanish word for garlic. The range is a 13 by 13-mile (21 by 21-km) long range and is connected loosely northwest to Childs Mountain a northwest-southeast small mountain at the south of Childs Valley. Ajo, is in the center-east of the range, and is famous for the New Cornelia open pit copper mine located in the Little Ajo Mountains. The peaks in the Little Ajo Mountains include the isolated Black Mountain which lies to the south of Ajo and has a peak elevation of . Cardigan Peak at lies in the main mountain mass to the west of Ajo. Ajo Peak at and North Ajo Peak are isolated peaks to the southwest of Ajo. Camelback Mountain at lies just south of Ajo and overlooks the New Cornelia pit just to the east. The Batamote Mountains lie to the no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ajo Air Force Station
Ajo Air Force Station is a closed United States Air Force General Surveillance Radar station. It is located northwest of Ajo, Arizona. It was closed in 1969 by the Air Force, and the radar site turned over to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). Today the site is part of the Joint Surveillance System (JSS), designated by NORAD as Western Air Defense Sector (WADS) Ground Equipment Facility J-29A. History Ajo Air Force Station came into existence as part of Phase III of the Air Defense Command Mobile Radar program. On October 20, 1953 ADC requested a third phase of twenty-five radar sites be constructed. Ajo was one of the most expensive ADC radar stations to be constructed, with costs mounting to approximately $7.4 million for 100 structures located within housing, cantonment, operations, ground-air transmitter-receiver (GATR) areas. This site became active in January 1958 with the 612th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron being assigned to the new station under 34 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ajo Copper News
The ''Ajo Copper News'' is a weekly community newspaper serving western Pima County, Arizona. It has been published since 1916 in Ajo, Arizona. Information about the newspaper, and some news briefs, can be found on its website a www.cunews.info The newspaper concentrates on news of the community and also features columns by local writers. It accepts general advertising. It is sold at local newsstands and is also available by subscription. The newspaper may be reached through its website which gives e-mail, mail, and telephone contact information. History The first issue of the Ajo Copper News bore a dateline of April 29, 1916. In its history, the newspaper has had a handful of publishers and editors, moved a few times, come back from a disastrous fire, and survived some tough times. Renwick White, encouraged by John Campbell Greenway and Mike Curley, founded the Ajo Copper News in March 1916 and published the first official issue in April. The first office was located in Cl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ajo, Cantabria
Ajo is the capital of Bareyo municipality in Cantabria, Spain. The town is from Santander. History The first historical written reference to Ajo (Asio) is in the "Liber Testamentarum" of Oviedo Cathedral from 923, in which the King Ordoño II of León donated the church of San Juan de Asio. Popular etymology without any basis says that the name comes from the great quantity of garlic Garlic (''Allium sativum'') is a species of bulbous flowering plant in the genus ''Allium''. Its close relatives include the onion, shallot, leek, chive, Allium fistulosum, Welsh onion and Allium chinense, Chinese onion. It is native to South A ... that the town's inhabitants consumed and that gave the locality a typical smell. Economy 25% of the population of the municipality works in the primary sector, 19.1% in construction, 9.5% in industry and 46.4% in the services sector. The jobs of more than 78% of the population are related to the garlic industry. Means of information The muni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
General Lavalle
General Lavalle (also known as Ajó) is a city located in the east of the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina., United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency It's the administrative center of the '' partido'' of General Lavalle, and the General Lavalle municipality. It has a population of 3,046 (. The city, partido, and municipality, are named after Juan Lavalle (1797-1841), who was a military and political figure in the early years of the Argentine state. The city is about a two-hour drive from Buenos Aires Ministro Pistarini International Airport. On the shores of the Ajó river, which flows from the interior of the province into Samborombón Bay Samborombón Bay () is a bay on the coast of Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. Located at the Río de la Plata's mouth on the Argentine Sea, it begins about southeast of Buenos Aires and is about wide. Toponymy The bay is thought to have been ..., it has deep-waters port close to the sea. Notes and references External ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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