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Mérida
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Montejo , the younger, on the site of a ruined Mayan city, Mérida has many fine examples of Spanish colonial architecture, notably...wells and streams. The limited nature of the soil has made Mérida commercially dependent upon the large crops of henequen (see...
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Sierra Nevada de Mérida
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...coastal range. From 30 to 50 mi (48-80 km) wide, it rises between the Orinoco llanos and Maracaibo lowlands to perpetually snowcapped peaks. Pico Bolívar (c.16,420 ft/5,000 m high) is the highest point in Venezuela. Coffee is raised in the Mérida.
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Francisco de Montejo
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...conquest to his son, Francisco de Montejo, who by 1542 effectively subdued the western part of the peninsula, founding Campeche, Mérida, and other settlements. After a general Native American uprising had been quelled, he finally conquered the eastern portion...
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Yucatán
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...comprises the states of Yucatán , Campeche , and Quintana Roo , Mexico; the country of Belize ; and part of Petén , Guatemala. Mérida , Campeche , and Cancún , Mexico and Belize City , Belize are the chief cities of Yucatán. The inhabitants are predominantly...
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Alfonso IX
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...at war with Alfonso VIII of Castile. His marriages with Teresa of Portugal and Berenguela of Castile were both annulled by the pope. He defeated (1230) the Moors at Mérida. His son by Berenguela, Ferdinand III, reunited (1230) León and Castile.
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Maya
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...undifferentiated mass of rural peasants. Administrative centers, inhabited largely by Spaniards, were established in the 16th cent. at Mérida in Yucatán, San Cristobal in Chiapas, and Antigua Guatemala in Guatemala. The latter was destroyed in a series of earthquakes...
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Rafael Moneo
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...his works are in Spain, e.g., the Diestre factory, Zaragoza (1967), his first commission; the National Museum of Roman Art, Mérida (1986), built atop an ancient necropolis; the Pilar and Joan Miró Foundation, Palma, Majorca (1992); and the Prado Museum...
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Venezuela
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...to Barquisimeto , the mountains rise to their greatest height at Pico Bolívar (16,427 ft/5,007 m) in the Sierra Nevada de Mérida. Densely populated, the highland region is the political and commercial hub of the nation. Coffee, the keystone of the economy...
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Spanish colonial art and architecture
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...which was built with only three walls in order to speed construction and to accommodate more people. The cathedrals of Puebla, Mérida, and Guadalajara were also begun in this period. During most of the 17th and 18th cent. the baroque style held sway, and in...
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