El Toro,
Spanish
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Other places
* Spanish, Ontario, Cana ...
for "the bull", may refer to:
Geography
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El Toro (Mallorca), a neighbourhood in the municipality of Calvià on the island of Mallorca
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El Toro, Castellón, a town in Castellón, Spain
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El Toro (Jujuy), a rural municipality and village in Jujuy Province in Argentina
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El Toro, Herrera
El Toro is a corregimiento in Las Minas District, Herrera Province, Panama
Panama ( , ; es, link=no, Panamá ), officially the Republic of Panama ( es, República de Panamá), is a transcontinental country spanning the southern part of ...
, a corregimiento in Panama
*El Toro, California, the name of a former town now part of the city of
Lake Forest, California
Lake Forest is a city in Orange County, California. The population was 85,858 at the 2020 census.
Lake Forest incorporated as a city on December 20, 1991. Prior to incorporation, the community had been known as El Toro. Following a vote in 20 ...
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Marine Corps Air Station El Toro
Marine Corps Air Station El Toro was a United States Marine Corps Air Station located next to the community of El Toro, near Irvine, California.
Before it was decommissioned in 1999, it was the home of Marine Corps Aviation on the West Coast ...
, a decommissioned U.S. military base in Orange County, California
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El Toro Y
The El Toro "Y" is a freeway interchange in southern Orange County, California where the Santa Ana Freeway, Interstate 5 (I-5), and the San Diego Freeway (at that point the I-405) merge. South of the El Toro Y, the highway is named the " ...
, a freeway interchange in Irvine, California
*El Toro, a small town on
Toas island
Toas Island (in Spanish language, Spanish "Isla de Toas") is a small limestone island in Venezuela. It is in the north-west of the country, north of Maracaibo Lake, just southwest of Zapara island and to the south of San Carlos peninsula, forming ...
, capital of Almirante Padilla Municipality in Zulia state, Venezuela
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Rancho El Toro Rancho El Toro was a Mexican land grant in present day Monterey County, California given in 1835 by Governor José Castro to José Ramón Estrada. The grant extended along Toro Creek south of Hill Town on the Salinas River.
History
José Ramà ...
, a Mexican land grant in present-day Monterey County, California
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El Toro Wilderness
El Toro Wilderness ( es, Selva El Toro) is a federally designated National Wilderness Preservation System unit located within El Yunque National Forest (formerly known as the Caribbean National Forest) on the Sierra de Luquillo in eastern Puerto ...
on the island of Puerto Rico
Mountains and hills
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El Toro (Menorca)
El Toro in Catalan, sometimes known by its Spanish name of Monte Toro, is the tallest hill of the island of Menorca, rising to an elevation of above mean sea level. The mountain is home to the Sanctuary of the ''Verge del Toro''. The mountain's su ...
, the highest hill in Menorca, Spain
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El Toro (Santa Clara County, California)
El Toro is a prominent hill located along the eastern foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains in southwest Santa Clara County, California. The iconic landmark is partially owned by the city of Morgan Hill, and its silhouette is incorporated in the ...
, a in the eastern foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains, California
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El Toro (Sierra de Luquillo)
El Toro (Spanish language, Spanish for ''bull, the bull'') is 3,526 feet (1,075 m) high and is the highest peak in the Sierra de Luquillo mountains in eastern Puerto Rico.
The peak is located in the boundaries of barrios El RÃo, Las Piedras, Pu ...
, a peak in the El Yunque National Forest in Puerto Rico
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Cerro El Toro
Cerro El Toro is a mountain in the Andes located on the border between Argentina and Chile. It has an elevation of 6,168 m above sea level. Its territory is within the Argentinean protection areas of Provincial Reserve San Guillermo. The Argenti ...
, a mountain in the Andes on the border between Argentina and Chile
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Cerro El Toro (Upata)
Cerro El Toro is a mountain in northwest side of Upata, Venezuela
Venezuela (; ), officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela ( es, link=no, República Bolivariana de Venezuela), is a country on the northern coast of South America, cons ...
, a mountain on the northwest side of Upata, Venezuela
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Pico El Toro
Pico El Toro is a mountain in the Andes of Venezuela. It has a height of 4755 metres.
See also
*List of mountains in the Andes
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Mountains of Venezuela
Sierra Nevada National Park (Venezuela) ...
, a mountain in the Andes of Venezuela
*El Toro, a peak in Nuevo León, Mexico noted for the rock climb ''
El Sendero Luminoso
El Sendero Luminoso is the name of a rock climb at El Potrero Chico, Nuevo León, Mexico. A big wall sport-route, El Sendero Luminoso rises over 1500 ft (~450 m) up the front side of El Toro. It is one of the harder long routes in the ...
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People and characters
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El Toro (nickname), a list of people
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El Toro Fuerte
This is a list of characters from the animated television series ''Jackie Chan Adventures''.
Protagonists Main cast
* Jackie Chan (voiced by James Sie in animated sequence; as himself for live-action sequences): The primary protagonist of t ...
, a ''Jackie Chan Adventures'' character
Roller coasters
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El Toro (Six Flags Great Adventure)
El Toro (Spanish for ''The Bull'') is a wooden roller coaster located at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson Township, New Jersey. Designed by Werner Stengel and manufactured by Intamin, the ride opened to the public on June 11, 2006. Intamin s ...
, a wooden roller coaster at Six Flags Great Adventure in New Jersey, USA
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El Toro (Freizeitpark Plohn)
El Toro is a wooden roller coaster at Freizeitpark Plohn in Germany. It is the third roller coaster built by Great Coasters International in Europe, after Thunderbird at PowerPark in Finland and Troy at Toverland in the Netherlands. It cost 5.1 ...
, a wooden roller coaster at Freizeitpark Plohn in Germany
Other uses
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El Toro (dinghy)
The El Toro is an American pram sailboat that was designed by Charles McGregor as a sail training dinghy and yacht tender, first built in 1939. It is now often sailed as a singlehanded one-design racer.
The boat is a development of McGrego ...
, a class of sailing dinghy
*''El Toro'', a custom car, winner of the 1976
Ridler Award
The Detroit Autorama, also known as America's Greatest Hot Rod Show, is a showcase of custom cars and hot rods held each year at TCF Center in Detroit, Michigan, in either late February or early March.
It is promoted by Championship Auto Shows Inc ...
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El Toro High School
El Toro High School is a public high school in Lake Forest, California, United States. It is one of five high schools in the Saddleback Valley Unified School District (SVUSD) and serves Lake Forest and its district of Portola Hills and a small po ...
, a high school in Lake Forest, California
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El Toro Hydroelectric Plant El Toro Hydroelectric Plant is a hydroelectric power station in BÃo BÃo Region, Chile. The plant uses water from Laja River and produces of electricity. The plant was built by ENDESA
Endesa, S.A. (, originally an initialism for ''Empresa ...
in BÃo-BÃo Region, Chile
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El Toro Road
There are 34 routes assigned to the "S" zone of the California Route Marker Program, which designates county routes in California. The "S" zone includes county highways in Imperial, Orange, Riverside, San Diego, and Santa Barbara counties.
S ...
, also called County Route S18 (CR S18)
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Battle of El Toro
The Battle of El Toro (March 6, 1820) was a battle fought near MaullÃn, Chile between Chilean patriots and Spanish royalists, during the Chilean War of Independence.
Background
After the capture of Valdivia, Lord Cochrane departed, leaving C ...
, during the Chilean War of Independence
See also
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Toro (disambiguation)
Toro may refer to:
Places
*Toro, Molise, a ''comune'' in the Province of Campobasso, Italy
*Toro, Nigeria, a Local Government Area of Bauchi State, Nigeria
*Toro, Shizuoka, an archaeological site in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan
*Toro, Zamora, a ''m ...
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El Torito (disambiguation)
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