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Gallos De Sancti Spíritus
Gallos de Sancti Spíritus (English: Sancti Spíritus Roosters) is a baseball team in the Cuban National Series. The team won the series championship in 1978-79 Cuban National Series, 1978–79. The Gallos have advanced to the National Series semifinals in each of the past two seasons; 2004-05 Cuban National Series, 2004–05 and 2005-06 Cuban National Series, 2005–06. Three Sancti Spíritus players were part of Cuba national baseball team, Cuba's team at the 2006 World Baseball Classic: Frederich Cepeda, Yulieski Gourriel and Eriel Sánchez. Team stadiums Every time a season starts, the team not only plays at José Antonio Huelga Stadium; their official stadium, but they also play at other 7 stadiums: * Genaro Melero Stadium – Jatibonico, Cuba, Jatibonico – The second most important besides José Antonio Huelga Stadium * Mártires de Cabaiguán Stadium – Cabaiguán, Cuba, Cabaiguán * Luis Torres Stadium – Yaguajay, Cuba, Yaguajay * Rolando Rodríguez Stadium – Tri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sancti Spíritus
Sancti Spíritus () is a municipality and capital city of the province of Sancti Spíritus in central Cuba and one of the oldest Cuban European settlements. Sancti Spíritus is the genitive case of Latin ''Sanctus Spiritus'' ("Holy Spirit"). History The city was founded by Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar in 1514. The city contributed men for Hernán Cortés' 1518 expedition to Mexico, including Alonso Hernandez Puertocarrero, Gonzalo de Sandoval, and Juan Velazquez de Leon.Diaz, B., 1963, The Conquest of New Spain, London: Penguin Books, Francisco Iznaga, a Basque landowner in the western portion of Cuba during the first thirty years of the colonization of Cuba, was elected mayor of Bayamo in 1540. Iznaga was the originator of a powerful lineage which finally settled in Sancti Spíritus and Trinidad, where Torre Iznaga (Iznaga Tower) is. His descendants fought for the independence of Cuba and for annexation to the U.S., from 1820 to 1900. Geography The municipality is d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yaguajay, Cuba
Yaguajay () is a municipality and town in the Sancti Spíritus Province of Cuba. It is located in the northern part of the province, and borders the Bay of Buena Vista to the north. The Caguanes National Park (protecting swamp and coastal ecosystems, caves and mural art) is located in Yaguajay. Geography The municipality was divided into the barrios of Bamburanao, Cabecera, Centeno, Mayajigua, Meneses and Seibabo. It is currently divided into the ''consejos populares'' (popular councils, i.e. hamlets) of CAI Aracelio Iglesias, El Río, Iguará, Itabo, Jarahueca, La Loma, Mayajigua, Meneses, CAI Obdulio Morales, Perea, Sansaricq, Seibabo, CAI Simón Bolivar, Turquino I, Turquino II and Venegas. History It was founded in 1847 and established as a municipality in 1879, then part of the province of Las Villas. The Battle of Yaguajay Camilo Cienfuegos fought an important battle in this city one of the last battles of the Cuban Revolution in 1958 defeating a Cuban Army Captain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pedro Álvarez (pitcher)
Pedro Alvarez may refer to: *Pedro Álvarez de Toledo, Marquis of Villafranca (1484–1553), Spanish viceroy of Naples * Pedro Alvarez de Acosta (1484–1563), Catholic Bishop of Osma *Pedro Álvares Cabral (c. 1468–1520), Portuguese navigator * Pedro de Toledo, 1st Marquis of Mancera (1585–1654), Spanish general and viceroy of Peru *Pedro Álvarez Castelló (1967–2004), Cuban painter * Pedro Álvarez (baseball) (born 1987), Dominican professional baseball player *Pedro Álvarez (footballer) (born 1970), Colombian association football player * Pedro J. J. Alvarez, Nicaraguan engineer *Pedro Mario Álvarez Pedro Mario Álvarez Abrante (born 2 February 1982), commonly known as Mario, is a Spanish former professional footballer as a central defender. Club career Born in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands, Mario started his senior career with A ... (born 1982), Spanish footballer See also * Pedro Álvarez-Salamanca (other) {{hndis, Alvarez, Pedro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luis Dany Morales
Luis is a given name. It is the Spanish form of the originally Germanic name or . Other Iberian Romance languages have comparable forms: (with an accent mark on the i) in Portuguese and Galician, in Aragonese and Catalan, while is archaic in Portugal, but common in Brazil. Origins The Germanic name (and its variants) is usually said to be composed of the words for "fame" () and "warrior" () and hence may be translated to ''famous warrior'' or "famous in battle". According to Dutch onomatologists however, it is more likely that the first stem was , meaning fame, which would give the meaning 'warrior for the gods' (or: 'warrior who captured stability') for the full name.J. van der Schaar, ''Woordenboek van voornamen'' (Prisma Voornamenboek), 4e druk 1990; see also thLodewijs in the Dutch given names database Modern forms of the name are the German name Ludwig and the Dutch form Lodewijk. and the other Iberian forms more closely resemble the French name Louis, a derivati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harbin Castellano
Harbin, ; zh, , s=哈尔滨, t=哈爾濱, p=Hā'ěrbīn; IPA: . is the capital of Heilongjiang, China. It is the largest city of Heilongjiang, as well as being the city with the second-largest urban population (after Shenyang, Liaoning province) and largest metropolitan population (urban and rural regions together) in Northeast China. Harbin has direct jurisdiction over nine metropolitan districts, two county-level cities and seven counties, and is the eighth most populous Chinese city according to the 2020 census. The built-up area of Harbin (which consists of all districts except Shuangcheng and Acheng) had 5,841,929 inhabitants, while the total metropolitan population was up to 10,009,854, making it one of the 100 largest urban areas in the world. Harbin serves as a key political, economic, scientific, cultural and communications hub in Northeast China, as well as an important industrial base of the nation. Several different etymologies have been offered for the city's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
