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Cañada
Cañada may refer to: Places Argentina *Cañada de Gómez, Santa Fe province *Cañada Rosquín, Santa Fe province * La Cañada, Santiago del Estero Mexico * Cañada, Alaquines, San Luis Potosí * Cañadas de Obregón, Jalisco * Cañada de la Virgen, Guanajuato, an archaeological site * Cañada, Guanajuato, Cortazar * Cañada Region, Oaxaca * Cañada Morelos Municipality ** Morelos Cañada *La Cañada, El Marqués, Querétaro * La Cañada (Mexicable), an aerial lift station in Ecatepec, Greater Mexico City Spain * Cañada, Alicante * Cañada de Benatanduz, Aragón * Cañada de Calatrava, Castilla–La Mancha * Cañada de Morote, Albacete * Cañada del Hoyo, Castilla–La Mancha *Cañada del Provencio, Albacete * Cañada Juncosa, Castilla–La Mancha *Cañada Real, Madrid * Cañada Rosal, Province of Seville *Cañada Vellida, Aragón *La Cañada de Verich, Aragón United States *Cañada de los Alamos, New Mexico *Cañada del Oro, a primary watershed channel in the valley o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Cañada Flintridge, California
La Cañada Flintridge, commonly known as just , is a city in the foothills of the Verdugo Mountains in Los Angeles County, California, United States. Located in the Crescenta Valley, in the western edge of the San Gabriel Valley, it is the location of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Before the city's incorporation on November 30, 1976, it consisted of the two distinct communities of La Cañada and Flintridge. The population was 20,573 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. History The Tongva were first to settle in the area. Local villages included Tejungna (now the city of Tujunga, west of La Cañada) and Hahamongna (now Hahamongna Watershed Park, east of La Cañada), connected by a network of trails, which passed through what is now La Cañada Flintridge. They made extensive use of the live oaks which still are common in La Cañada, as a source of food and shelter. In 1771, the Tongva were enslaved by missionaries at Mission San Gabriel Arcángel, resulting in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cañada College
Cañada College is a public community college in Redwood City, California. It is located on in the western part of Redwood City. The college offers 80 A.A./A.S. degree programs and 48 certificate programs. History In 1957, the San Mateo Junior College District Board of Trustees developed a 25-year district master plan based on the recommendations of a citizens' advisory committee, and the same year submitted a $5.9 million bond issue to voters that was approved by a three-to-one margin. The bond issue victory cleared the way for prompt acquisition of the present College of San Mateo campus and also provided funds for purchase of a site west of Skyline Boulevard and south of Sharp Park Road in San Bruno. A third site of west of the Farm Hill subdivision on the Redwood City-Woodside line, was purchased in 1962. The current College of San Mateo campus was opened in 1963, followed by Cañada College in 1968, and Skyline College, San Bruno, in 1969. Construction of Cañada ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cañada De La Virgen
Cañada de la Virgen (Spanish for Virgin's Glen) is an Otomi people, Otomi archaeological site in Mexico. Located in the state of Guanajuato, the site was first excavated in 1995, while the official excavation began in 2002. Public access was first allowed in 2011. However, unlike its famous counterparts such as Chichen Itza, access is strictly controlled due to it sitting on private property, one of the largest ex-haciendas in Guanajuato. The Otomi people have lived in the valley of San Miguel de Allende for thousands of years. It is presumed that construction at Cañada De La Virgen most likely began after the collapse of the Teotihuacan culture, where they are believed to have previously resided along with other tribes in the Valley of Mexico (near Mexico City today), around 530 AD. The Otomi people were avid sky watchers and passed information down from generation to generation. These people used astronomical criteria, religious beliefs and agricultural cycles to select the La ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cañada De Calatrava
Cañada de Calatrava is a municipality in Ciudad Real, Castile-La Mancha, Spain. The municipality borders Ciudad Real and Villar del Pozo to the east, Caracuel de Calatrava and Corral de Calatrava to the west, and Argamasilla de Calatrava to the south. It has an area of 29.9 km2 with a population of 92 inhabitants (INE 2018) and a density of 3.68/km2. Geography Cañada de Calatrava is located 19 kilometers from the provincial capital. The municipality is crossed by the N-420 road between mile markers (Punto Kilométrico) 182 and 183, by the Ciudad Real-Puertollano A-41 motorway and by the local road CR-P-5135 that connects Corral de Calatrava with the Ciudad Real International Airport. The landscape and topography of the municipality is similar to its region, predominantly flat to the north in the Jabalón valley, with higher areas as you move south, highlighting the Sierra Gorda on the border with Argamasilla de Calatrava and the Sierra Vieja to the southeast. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Cañada Observatory
La Cañada Observatory (), is an astronomical observatory in Ávila, Spain privately owned by Juan Lacruz, the main activity is to monitor near-Earth objects other asteroids and comets. The observatory joined the International Astronomical Union sending the first astrometric observations in the summer of 2002. The Minor Planet Center assigned the observatory code J87: La Cañada. Instrumental : Telescope 0.41m F10 Ritchey-Chrétien + CCD Gallery File:Observatory WinterView.JPG, A winter view of the observatory File:Comet C2020 NEOWISE 17-07-2020 La Canada observatory.png, Comet C/2020 (NEOWISE) 17-07-2020 20:51:57 UTC File:Moon eclipse.jpg, Lunar eclipse File:Saturn 1-Agust-2015.jpg, Saturn as seen at La Cañada on 1 August 2015 File:C2013 US10 06DEC2015 J87 BW.jpg, Comet C/2013 US10 Catalina as viewed from La Cañada on 6 December 2015; tail disconnection event File:C2013US10 CATALINA 06DEC2015 J87.jpg, C/2013 US10 Catalina imaged on 6 December 2015 File:Comet Lovejoy.jpg, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cañadas De Obregón
Cañadas de Obregón is a town and municipality, in Jalisco in central-western Mexico. It is located in the Altos Sur Region. The municipality covers an area of 182.09 square miles (271.8 km2). It has always been a small town, which firstly was called Cañadas ("Glens"). In 1929 his name was changed to Villa Obregón (Obregón Village), in honor to Mexican president Álvaro Obregón (assassinated on July 17, 1928, in Mexico City). However, on January 10, 1980, it again changed its name, this time to Cañadas de Obregón, partially recovering its original name. As of 2005, the municipality had a total population of 3,978. The population of the municipality has decreased due to emigration, generally to the United States. Their main sources of economic income are agriculture and remittances sent by their fellow citizens residing in the United States. History Before the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire, this region was included within the dominion of Coinan and its inh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cañada Real
Cañada Real is a shanty town in the Madrid Region of Spain, a linear succession of informal housing following a stretch of the drovers' road connecting La Rioja and Ciudad Real. The largest illegal settlement in a European city, it extends through the municipalities of Coslada, Rivas-Vaciamadrid and Madrid. Location Cañada Real is situated on the ''Cañada Real Galiana'', one of the traditional cattle roads running from La Rioja to Ciudad Real and close to the M50 motorway, Madrid's third outer ring road. The irregular settlement features both high-end detached houses as well as pockets of extreme poverty. The initial settlement, started in the 1950s and 1960s, was built on what currently forms part of the Coslada urban centre; many of the residents later bought the land from the State. It is considered the largest illegal settlement in a European city. The Cañada Real is divided into 6 subsectors: the Sector 1 (the first long stretch in Coslada on the ''Camino de Santiag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cañada Del Oro
The Cañada del Oro (Spanish, 'Canyon of Gold'), is a primary watershed channel in Oro Valley, Arizona, U.S. The Cañada del Oro originates in the remote Cañon del Oro in the Santa Catalina Mountains north of Tucson, fed by rainfall and melted snow from the northern face of Mount Lemmon and flows northward toward the town of Oracle. The Cañada del Oro is a perennial creek in Cañon del Oro at higher altitudes. The Cañada del Oro curves from flowing northward to southward through the town of Oro Valley north of Tucson, where it is usually a dry riverbed. In Oro Valley, the Cañada del Oro collects watershed from the western face of the Santa Catalina Mountains. The Cañada del Oro ultimately feeds into the Santa Cruz River just northwest of Tucson, which is the principal watershed channel in the Tucson valley. Historically, the Cañada del Oro was the focus of significant interest in gold mining, beginning with Spanish explorers in the 17th century. As early as 1880, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cañada Region
Cañada is a region in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico covering 4,300 square km. It includes two districts, Teotitlán and Cuicatlán. The main administrative center is Teotitlán de Flores Magón, but Huautla de Jiménez is considered the most important cultural center in the region. The region is named after the Cañada de Cuicatlán, a hot low canyon that links the Valley of Oaxaca to the south with the Valley of Tehuacán in Puebla state to the north. The Cañada was the major Precolumbian route between the two valleys. It was conquered and controlled by the early Zapotec state based on Monte Albán Monte Albán is a large pre-Columbian archaeological site in the Santa Cruz Xoxocotlán Municipality in the southern Mexico, Mexican state of Oaxaca (17.043° N, 96.767°W). The site is located on a low mountainous range rising above the plain i ... at some time around 300 BC. The region is fertile with a warm and mild climate, and produces crops of mango, melon and avocado. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cañada Gobernadora
Cañada Gobernadora is a tributary to San Juan Creek, about long, in southern Orange County in the U.S. state of California. The creek begins in the foothills of the Santa Ana Mountains (), at an elevation of , and flows south through residential, agricultural and finally undeveloped land, to its confluence with San Juan Creek a few miles upstream of the city of San Juan Capistrano (). The upper half of the stream is largely channelized and flows through golf courses, while the lower half is a wash-like channel that can be up to wide. The stream receives some urban runoff from the residential communities higher in its watershed. The watershed includes several geologic formations, including the Tertiary Sespe Formation and Santiago Formation, and Holocene sedimentary and alluvial deposits embedded in its narrow floodplain. Cañada Gobernadora forms an unofficial dividing line for the lower portion of the San Juan watershed; most urban development is confined to west of the cre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cañada Rosal
Cañada Rosal () is a city located in the province of Seville, Spain. According to the 2005 census ( INE), the city has a population of 3085 inhabitants. See also * List of municipalities in Seville Province of Seville, Seville is a provinces of Spain, province in the Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Andalusia, Spain, which is divided into 106 Municipalities of Spain, municipalities. Spanish census, Seville is the ... References External linksCañada Rosal- Sistema de Información Multiterritorial de Andalucía Municipalities of the Province of Seville {{Andalusia-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cañada Rosquín
Cañada Rosquín is a small town (''comuna'') in the . It is located in the San Martín Department, from the provincial capital ( Santa Fe). It has a population of 6,985 inhabitants (). The town was founded in 1891 by Rafael Escriña. As of the 2023 election, the Communal President is María Eugenia Racciatti. Economy The region's economy is predominantly agricultural and livestock farming, with a high production of soya beans. There are some important companies, among them the current soap factory Cooperativa De Trabajo Jabonera Cañada Rosquín Limitada, formerly Sociedad Argentina Grasos y Derivados SA, which deserves a special comment: as a result of bad management by its former owners, this factory was plunged into a state of bankruptcy that seemed to have no return. However, the employees, severely affected by this situation, decided to save this source of work and create a cooperative that took over the business. There is also an insulin company that is the only one in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
