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Juan Díaz De Solís
Juan Díaz de Solís ( – 20 January 1516) was a 16th-century navigator and explorer. He is also said to be the first European to land on what is now modern day Uruguay. Biography His origins are disputed. One document records him as a Portuguese in the service of Castile ("Spain"), having possibly been born in Lisbon or São Pedro de Solis. Others claim that his birth took place in Lebrija, in what is now the province of Seville, Spain, where documentation testifies that he lived when he was in Castile, as ''vecino'' ("neighbor"), meaning living there. However he began his naval career in Portugal as João Dias de Solis, where he became a pilot in the Portuguese India Armadas. After leaving his home in Lisbon and the ship that he was going to sail as Pilot, in the same day of departure of the fleet (ship captained by Afonso de Albuquerque, in the 1506 armada of Tristão da Cunha, to India), accused of the death of his wife, he served as a privateer in French fleets for a sh ...
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Juan De Solís
Juan de Solís (c.1598 - 30 September 1654, Madrid) was a Spanish painter and scenographer in the Baroque art, Baroque style. He spent much of his career in the service of King Philip IV of Spain, Philip IV. Only a few of his works have been preserved. His son, Francisco de Solís, Francisco, also became a painter. Biography According to a treatise by Antonio Palomino, Solís was born into a noble family. This has not been corroborated. Juan Agustín Ceán Bermúdez, Ceán Bermúdez says that he learned painting from Alonso de Herrera in Segovia.Ceán Bermúdez, ''Diccionario histórico de los más ilustres profesores de la Bellas Artes en España'', 1800 He was already established as a painter by 1630, when he took Juan de Arellano into his workshop as a student.Diego Angulo Íñiguez and Alfonso Pérez Sánchez, ''Pintura madrileña del segundo tercio del siglo XVII'', 1983, Instituto Diego Velázquez Around 1636, he began working as a court painter, creating stage decorati ...
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Río De La Plata
The Río de la Plata (; ), also called the River Plate or La Plata River in English, is the estuary formed by the confluence of the Uruguay River and the Paraná River at Punta Gorda, Colonia, Punta Gorda. It empties into the Atlantic Ocean and forms a funnel-shaped indentation on the southeastern coastline of South America. Depending on the geographer, the Río de la Plata may be considered a river, an estuary, a gulf, or a marginal sea. If considered a river, it is the widest in the world, with a maximum width of . The river is about long and widens from about at its source to about at its mouth. It forms part of Argentina–Uruguay border, the border between Argentina and Uruguay. The name Río de la Plata is also used to refer to the populations along the estuary, especially the main Port city, port cities of Buenos Aires and Montevideo, where Rioplatense Spanish is spoken and tango culture developed. The coasts of the river are the most densely populated areas of Urugua ...
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Maritime Navigators
Maritime may refer to: Geography * Maritime Alps, a mountain range in the southwestern part of the Alps * Maritime Region, a region in Togo * Maritime Southeast Asia * The Maritimes, the Canadian provinces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island * Maritime County, former county of Poland, existing from 1927 to 1939, and from 1945 to 1951 * Neustadt District, Reichsgau Danzig-West Prussia, known from 1939 to 1942 as ''Maritime District'', a former district of Reichsgau Danzig-West Prussia, Nazi Germany, from 1939 to 1945 * The Maritime Republics, thalassocratic city-states on the Italian peninsula during the Middle Ages Museums * Maritime museum (sometimes nautical museum), a museum for the display of objects relating to ships and travel on large bodies of water. * Maritime Museum (Belize) * Maritime Museum (Macau), China * Maritime Museum (Malaysia) * Maritime Museum (Stockholm), Sweden Music * ''Maritime'' (album), a 2005 album by Minotaur Shock * Maritim ...
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Explorers Of Central America
Exploration is the process of exploring, an activity which has some expectation of discovery. Organised exploration is largely a human activity, but exploratory activity is common to most organisms capable of directed locomotion and the ability to learn, and has been described in, amongst others, social insects foraging behaviour, where feedback from returning individuals affects the activity of other members of the group. Types Geographical Geographical exploration, sometimes considered the default meaning for the more general term exploration, is the practice of discovering lands and regions of the planet Earth remote or relatively inaccessible from the origin of the explorer. The surface of the Earth not covered by water has been relatively comprehensively explored, as access is generally relatively straightforward, but underwater and subterranean areas are far less known, and even at the surface, much is still to be discovered in detail in the more remote and inaccessib ...
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Portuguese Explorers Of South America
Portuguese may refer to: * anything of, from, or related to the country and nation of Portugal ** Portuguese cuisine, traditional foods ** Portuguese language, a Romance language *** Portuguese dialects, variants of the Portuguese language ** Portuguese man o' war, a dangerous marine animal ** Portuguese people, an ethnic group See also * * ''Sonnets from the Portuguese'' * "A Portuguesa", the national anthem of Portugal * Lusofonia * Lusitania Lusitania (; ) was an ancient Iberian Roman province encompassing most of modern-day Portugal (south of the Douro River) and a large portion of western Spain (the present Extremadura and Province of Salamanca). Romans named the region after th ... * {{disambiguation Language and nationality disambiguation pages ...
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Route 10 Juan Díaz De Solís
Route 10 is a national route of Uruguay. In 1983, it was assigned the name Juan Díaz de Solís, honouring the Spanish navigator. The distance notation along Route 10 uses the same Kilometre Zero reference as Routes 1, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and IB, which is the Pillar of Peace of Plaza de Cagancha in the Centro of Montevideo. Aguas Dulces is at km 277 of Route 10. There are three parts that constitute Route 10, all of them close to the coastline. Their total length amounts to about . A less mentioned part starts by splitting off Ruta Interbalnearia after the bridge of Arroyo Pando and at its junction with Route 34, in Canelones Department. It runs for about and stops at the resort Marindia. Coordinates: Another part, often mentioned as the "first", starts after the bridge over the stream Arroyo Solís Grande, splitting from the Ruta Interbalnearia, crossing the resort of Solís and running along the coastline until Piriápolis, where it turns into Rambla de los Argentinos ...
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Solís Theatre
Solís Theatre (''Spanish'': Teatro Solís) is Uruguay's most important and renowned theater. It opened in 1856. The building was designed by the Italian architect Carlo Zucchi. It is located in Montevideo's Old Town, right next to the Plaza Independencia. The theatre was named after the explorer Juan Díaz de Solís, who was the first European explorer to land in modern day Uruguay. In 1998, the government of Montevideo started a major reconstruction of the theatre, which included two columns designed by Philippe Starck. The reconstruction was completed in 2004 with the re-opening taking place in August of that year. Acoustic studies of the rehabilitation project was entrusted to Jerome Falala of the French studio ''Avel Acoustique''. Tomás Giribaldi's ''La Parisina'', considered the first Uruguayan national opera, was premiered at the Solís on 14 September 1878. History Project's conception In 1833, a group of influential citizens in Montevideo came together to f ...
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Solís De Mataojo
Solís de Mataojo is a small town in the southwest edge of the Lavalleja Department of southern Uruguay. Geography The town is located on Km. 83 of Route 8. The stream Arroyo Solís Grande flows along the southeast limits of the town. History It was created as a "Pueblo" (village) by Decree of 12 August 1874. Its status was elevated to "Villa" (town) category on 15 October 1963 by decree Ley N° 13.167. Population In 2011, Solís de Mataojo had a population of 2,825. Source: ''Instituto Nacional de Estadística de Uruguay'' Places of worship * Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Parish Church (Roman Catholic The Catholic Church (), also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.27 to 1.41 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2025. It is among the world's oldest and largest international institut ...) Notable people * Eduardo Fabini, composer and musician * Manuel Espínola Gómez, painter * Juan Capagorry, illustrator and w ...
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Balneario Solís
A balneario ( Portuguese spelling: balneário) is an Iberian and Ibero American resort town, typically a seaside resort, and less commonly along the shores of lakes and rivers or next to hot springs. In Spain, balneario typically only refers to spa town resorts. These resorts offer recreation, sports, entertainment, food, hospitality and safety services, retail, and cultural events. These balneario towns are characterized by being flooded by masses of tourists during the summer seasons. History The word "balneario" comes from Latin "balnearĭus" and initially from Greek "balneae" from Greek βαλανεῖον ''balaneion'', - "bath, bathing room". Balnearios may be as simple as a beach or as complex as a planned city. Mexico's Acapulco and Puerto Vallarta are balneario city-destinations, for example, while Chile's San Alfonso del Mar is a more planned resort community and its Viña del Mar a city that also happens to be a balneario. Balnearios are characterized by having beache ...
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Arroyo Solís Chico
Arroyo often refers to: * Arroyo (watercourse), an intermittently dry creek Arroyo may also refer to: Places United States * Arroyo, Pennsylvania * Arroyo, Puerto Rico, a municipality * Arroyo, West Virginia Spain * Arroyo (Santillana del Mar), a town Other * Arroyo (surname) * Restaurante Arroyo in Mexico City, the world's largest Mexican restaurant * Arroyo, a fictional village in the computer game ''Fallout 2'' * USS ''Arroyo'' (SP-197), a United States Navy patrol boat in commission from 1917 to 1918 * "Arroyo", a song by band SWA See also * Aroya (other) Aroya may refer to: * Årøya, an island of Finnmark, Norway * Arøya, a group of islands of Telemark, Norway * Aroya, Colorado, a small, rural, unincorporated community in Cheyenne County, Colorado Cheyenne County is a county located in the U ... * Arroyo High School (other) * * {{disambiguation, geo ...
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Francisco De Torres
Francisco is the Spanish and Portuguese form of the masculine given name ''Franciscus''. Meaning of the name Francisco In Spanish, people with the name Francisco are sometimes nicknamed " Paco". San Francisco de Asís was known as ''Pater Communitatis'' (father of the community) when he founded the Franciscan order, and "Paco" is a short form of ''Pater Communitatis''. In areas of Spain where Basque is spoken, " Patxi" is the most common nickname; in the Catalan areas, "Cesc" (short for Francesc) is often used. In Spanish Latin America and in the Philippines, people with the name Francisco are frequently called " Pancho". " Kiko"and "Cisco" is also used as a nickname, and "Chicho" is another possibility. In Portuguese, people named Francisco are commonly nicknamed " Chico" (''shíco''). People with the given name * Pope Francis (1936-2025) is rendered in the Spanish, Portuguese and Filipino languages as Papa Francisco * Francisco Acebal (1866–1933), Spanish writer and au ...
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Guarani People
Guarani, Guaraní or Guarany may refer to Ethnography * Guaraní people, an indigenous people from South America's interior (Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Bolivia) * Guarani language, or Paraguayan Guarani, an official language of Paraguay * Guarani dialects, spoken in Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, and Paraguay * Guarani languages, a group of languages, including Guarani, in the Tupí-Guaraní language subfamily * Eastern Bolivian Guaraní language, historically called Chiriguanos, living in the eastern Bolivian foothills of the Andes. Also called Ava Guarani. Economics * Paraguayan guaraní, the currency of Paraguay Education * The Guarini School of Graduate and Advanced Studies, a subunit of Dartmouth College Geography * Guarani, Minas Gerais, Brazil * Guarani de Goiás, Brazil * Guarani das Missões, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil * Guarani Aquifer, a large underground water reservoir in South America Literature and music * '' The Guarani'', an 1857 novel by Jos� ...
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