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Caleta Córdoba
Caleta Córdova is a small village with 638 inhabitants (INDEC, 2001) located in Escalante Department in the province of Chubut Province, Chubut, Argentina, at the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic coast 16 kilometers north of Comodoro Rivadavia, an economically oil-based city in the province of Chubut. Politically it belongs to the municipality of Comodoro Rivadavia. The village's inhabitants are almost entirely dependent on the city of Comodoro Rivadavia for all power and food resources. It is home to many oil workers, has an oil-exporting port (the so-called ''monoboya'') and also offers fishing along the village's single bridge as a tourist attraction. There is one station of Argentina's "Prefectura", or coast guard, which operates with several small boats. In January 2008 a ship lost petroleum near the village and contaminated the coastal zone, which is home to penguins and sea lions. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caleta Cordova
Caleta may refer to: People *Duje Ćaleta-Car (born 1996), Croatian professional footballer Places * Caleta Chaihuín, a coastal hamlet in Corral, Chile * Caleta Córdoba, a small village in Chubut, Argentina * Caleta Olivia, a coastal city in Argentina * Caleta Tortel, a coastal village in Chile * Caleta de Carquin District, in Huaura Province, Peru * Caleta de Fuste, a community on the Canary Island of Fuerteventura; Antigua, Las Palmas, Spain * Caleta de Sebo, a settlement on the Canary Island of Graciosa; part of Teguise, Spain * La Caleta, Spain, a beach in Cádiz, Spain * La Caleta, Tenerife, a village in Adeje province, Tenerife, Spain * Las Caletas, a beach near Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico * Catalan Bay, a bay and fishing village in Gibraltar, known colloquially as ''La Caleta'' * La Caleta Airport, an airport in La Romana, Dominican Republic * Punta Caleta, the easternmost point of Cuba Nature * Caleta (butterfly), ''Caleta'' (butterfly), a butterfly genus * '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Escalante Department
Escalante Department is a department of Chubut Province in Argentina. The provincial subdivision has a population of about 143,000 inhabitants in an area of 14,015 km², and its capital city is Comodoro Rivadavia. The department is named after doctor Wenceslao Escalante, who was part of the Ministry of Agriculture during the presidency of Julio A. Roca. Attractions *Autodromo Comodoro Rivadavia Settlements * Caleta Córdoba * Campamento El Tordillo * Ciudadela *Comodoro Rivadavia * Diadema Argentina * El Trébol * Escalante * General Mosconi * Laprida *Palazzo A palace is a large residence, often serving as a royal residence or the home for a head of state or another high-ranking dignitary, such as a bishop or archbishop. The word is derived from the Latin name palātium, for Palatine Hill in Rome whi ... * Rada Tilly * Villa Astra * Villa Ortiz * Puerto Visser * Bahia Bustamante * Rocas Coloradas * Comferpet * Pampa del Castillo * Pampa Salamanca * Rio Chico * Pi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chubut Province
Chubut ( from Tehuelche language, Tehuelche 'transparent'; ) is a provinces of Argentina, province in southern Argentina, situated between the 42nd parallel south (the border with Río Negro Province), the 46th parallel south (bordering Santa Cruz Province, Argentina, Santa Cruz Province), the Andes range to the west (bordering Chile), and the Atlantic Ocean to the east. The province's name derives from the Tehuelche language, Tehuelche word , meaning 'transparent', their description of the Chubut River. The largest city is Comodoro Rivadavia in the south of the province; it has 180,000 inhabitants. The administrative capital is Rawson, Chubut, Rawson (40,000). Other important cities are Puerto Madryn, Trelew, Esquel and Sarmiento, Chubut, Sarmiento. Gaiman, Chubut, Gaiman is a cultural and demographic centre of the region known as in which Welsh settlement in Argentina, Welsh-Argentines are concentrated. History Before the Spain, Spaniards arrived in the Americas, nomadic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Atlantic Ocean
The Atlantic Ocean is the second largest of the world's five borders of the oceans, oceanic divisions, with an area of about . It covers approximately 17% of Earth#Surface, Earth's surface and about 24% of its water surface area. During the Age of Discovery, it was known for separating the New World of the Americas (North America and South America) from the Old World of Afro-Eurasia (Africa, Asia, and Europe). Through its separation of Afro-Eurasia from the Americas, the Atlantic Ocean has played a central role in the development of human society, globalization, and the histories of many nations. While the Norse colonization of North America, Norse were the first known humans to cross the Atlantic, it was the expedition of Christopher Columbus in 1492 that proved to be the most consequential. Columbus's expedition ushered in an Age of Discovery, age of exploration and colonization of the Americas by European powers, most notably Portuguese Empire, Portugal, Spanish Empire, Sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Comodoro Rivadavia
Comodoro Rivadavia (), often shortened to Comodoro ( ), is a city in the Patagonian Provinces of Argentina, province of Chubut Province, Chubut in southern Argentina, located on the San Jorge Gulf, an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean, at the foot of the Chenque Hill. Comodoro Rivadavia is the most important city of the San Jorge Basin, and is the largest city in Chubut as well as the Southernmost settlements#Settlements of more than 1,000 inhabitants south of 45°S, largest city south of the 45th parallel south, southern 45th parallel. The city is often referred to simply as ''Comodoro''. It was at one time the capital of the Comodoro Rivadavia Territory, which existed from 1943 to 1955. The territory was a part of Chubut before and after its creation, and the city became the capital of the Escalante Department. It had a population of 137,061 at the , and grew to 182,631 by the 2010 census. Comodoro Rivadavia is a commercial and transportation center for the surrounding region, the larg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Penguin
Penguins are a group of aquatic flightless birds from the family Spheniscidae () of the order Sphenisciformes (). They live almost exclusively in the Southern Hemisphere. Only one species, the Galápagos penguin, is equatorial, with a small portion of its population extending slightly north of the equator (within a quarter degree of latitude). Highly adapted for life in the ocean water, penguins have countershaded dark and white plumage and flippers for swimming. Most penguins feed on krill, fish, squid and other forms of sea life which they catch with their bills and swallow whole while swimming. A penguin has a spiny tongue and powerful jaws to grip slippery prey. They spend about half of their lives on land and the other half in the sea. The largest living species is the emperor penguin (''Aptenodytes forsteri''): on average, adults are about tall and weigh . The smallest penguin species is the little blue penguin (''Eudyptula minor''), also known as the fairy pen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sea Lion
Sea lions are pinnipeds characterized by external ear flaps, long foreflippers, the ability to walk on all fours, short and thick hair, and a big chest and belly. Together with the fur seals, they make up the family Otariidae, eared seals. The sea lions have six extant and one extinct species (the Japanese sea lion) in five genera. Their range extends from the subarctic to tropical waters of the global ocean in both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, with the notable exception of the northern Atlantic Ocean. Sea lions have an average lifespan of 20–30 years. A male California sea lion weighs on average about and is about long, while the female sea lion weighs and is long. The largest sea lions are Steller's sea lions, which can weigh and grow to a length of . Sea lions consume large quantities of food at a time and are known to eat about 5–8% of their body weight (about ) at a single feeding. Sea lions can move around in water and at their fastest they ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
