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Galo Miño
Galo Edmundo Miño Jarrín (6 February 1953 – 11 September 1986) was an Ecuadorian sports shooter. Miño won a gold medal at the 1983 Pan American Games in Caracas, as a member of Ecuador's three-man side in the team competition of the Air Pistol. It was Ecuador's only medal of the games. At the 1984 Summer Olympics, Miño competed in the 50 meter pistol event. He finished equal 23rd, from the 56 shooters in the field. A police captain, Miño was killed aged 33, during a shootout with bank robbers in Quito. References External linksGalo Miñoat Sports Reference Sports Reference, LLC is an American sports statistics company that operates databases of several sports. They include Pro Football Reference for American football, Baseball Reference for baseball, Basketball Reference for basketball, Hockey ... {{DEFAULTSORT:Mino, Galo 1953 births 1986 deaths Ecuadorian male sport shooters Olympic shooters for Ecuador Shooters at the 1984 Summer Olympics Pan American ...
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Guaranda () is a city in central Ecuador. It is the capital of Bolívar province located in the Andes mountains. The city is connected by road with other hubs, including Riobamba, Babahoyo and Ambato. Guaranda is a market town located in a ''valle'' – a deep valley in the high Andes, serving a vast hinterland of agricultural settlements ("comunidades") peopled by Quechua Indians. Its climate is subtropical, with a long (May – October) dry season ("estio"). Its population is mainly mestizo, but includes many people of different ethnicities. This nucleus has been intermarrying for almost five centuries, forming a compact population linked by family connections. Since the 1990s, the indigenous majority has seized political power and most of the local elected officers are of Quechua origin. The city has a population of 30,755 (2022 census) and is growing. It has severe electrical and water supply problems. Water is drawn from high surface sources, mostly from the Chimborazo ...
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Ecuadorian Male Sport Shooters
Ecuadorians () are people identified with the South American country of Ecuador. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Ecuadorians, several (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being ''Ecuadorian''. Numerous indigenous cultures inhabited what is now Ecuadorian territory for several millennia before the expansion of the Inca Empire in the fifteenth century. The Las Vegas culture (archaeology), Las Vegas culture of coastal Ecuador is one of the oldest cultures in the Americas. The Valdivia culture is another well-known early Ecuadorian culture. Spaniards arrived in the sixteenth century, as did Black Ecuadorians, sub-Saharan Africans who were enslaved and transported across the Atlantic by Spaniards and other Europeans. The modern Ecuadorian population is principally descended from these three ancestral groups. As of the 2022 census, 77.5% of the population identified as Mestizo, a mix of Spanish and Indig ...
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