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Chavin Culture
Chavin may refer to: Places * Chavín de Huantar, an archaeological site in Peru built by the Chavín culture * Chavín District, Chincha, Peru * Chavín de Huantar District, Huari, Peru * Chavín de Pariarca District, Huamalies, Peru * Chavin, Indre, a commune of the Indre ''département'' in France * Chavin, Iran, a village in Kurdistan Province, Iran * The Chavín parish belonging to the municipality of Viveiro, Spain Other uses * Chinga Chavin, U.S. musician * Chavín culture, an early culture of the Andean region, pre-dating the Moche culture in Peru * Operation Chavín de Huántar Operation Chavín de Huántar was a military operation in which a team of 142 commandos of the Peruvian Armed Forces ended the 1997 Japanese embassy hostage crisis by raiding the Japanese ambassador's residence and freeing the hostages held there ..., a Peruvian military operation that ended the 1997 Japanese embassy hostage crisis * Rhinella chavin (''R. chavin''), a species of toad See al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chavín District
Chavín District is one of eleven districts of the province Chincha in Peru. Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática The Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática (INEI) ("National Institute of Statistics and Informatics") is a semi-autonomous Peruvian government agency which coordinates, compiles, and evaluates statistical information for the countr .... Banco de Información Distrital''. Retrieved April 11, 2008. References {{coord, 13.0771, S, 75.9130, W, source:wikidata-and-enwiki-cat-tree_region:PE, display=title ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chavín De Huantar District
Chavín de Huántar District is one of sixteen districts of the Huari Province in Peru. Geography The Cordillera Blanca traverses the western part of the district. Some of the highest peaks of the district are listed below: Ethnic groups The people in the district are mainly indigenous citizens of Quechua descent. Quechua is the language which the majority of the population (82.85%) learnt to speak in childhood, 16.71% of the residents started speaking using the Spanish language (2007 Peru Census The 2007 Peru Census was a detailed enumeration of the Peruvian population. It was conducted by the Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática on Sunday, October 21, 2007. Its full name in Spanish is XI Censo de Población y VI de Vivien ...). INEI, Peru, Censos Nacionales 2007, Frequencias: Pregun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chavín De Pariarca District
Chavín de Pariarca District is one of eleven districts of the province Huamalíes in Peru. Ethnic groups The people in the district are mainly indigenous citizens of Quechua descent. Quechua is the language which the majority of the population (55.25%) learnt to speak in childhood, 43.63% of the residents started speaking using the Spanish language (2007 Peru Census The 2007 Peru Census was a detailed enumeration of the Peruvian population. It was conducted by the Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática on Sunday, October 21, 2007. Its full name in Spanish is XI Censo de Población y VI de Vivien ...). INEI, Peru, Censos Nacionales 2007, Frequencias: Preguntas de Población: Idioma o lengua con el que aprendió hablar (in Spanish) See also *[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chavin, Indre
Chavin () is a commune in the Indre department in central France. Population See also *Communes of the Indre department The following is a list of the 241 communes of the Indre department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2020):Communes of Indre {{Indre-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chavin, Iran
Chuin ( fa, چوئين, also Romanized as Chū’īn; also known as Chāvīn, Chawīn, and Shāhīn) is a village in Kumasi Rural District, in the Central District of Marivan County, Kurdistan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 170, in 40 families. The village is populated by Kurds ug:كۇردلار Kurds ( ku, کورد ,Kurd, italic=yes, rtl=yes) or Kurdish people are an Iranian peoples, Iranian ethnic group native to the mountainous region of Kurdistan in Western Asia, which spans southeastern Turkey, northwestern Ir .... References Towns and villages in Marivan County Kurdish settlements in Kurdistan Province {{Marivan-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viveiro
Viveiro () is a town and municipality in the province of Lugo, in the northwestern Galician autonomous community of Spain. It borders on the Cantabric Sea, to the west of Xove and to the east of O Vicedo. It has a residential population of over 16,000 (2010 figures), which however triples in the summer months with visitors to the coastal region. Geography and location The climate is mild oceanic. The municipality encompasses the township of Viveiro itself (the main population centre on the Lugo coast), and also the towns of Covas and Celeiro. More than half of the municipality's population live in these three centres. Viveiro municipality is subdivided into several administrative areas (''parroquias'', or parishes): Area-Faro, Boimente, Chavín, Galdo, Landrove, Magazos, San Pedro, Valcarría, Celeiro, Vieiro, Covas and Viveiro. Main sights The old wall, of which only parts remain today, was built to protect the inhabitants from attacks or from the plague. The rema ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chinga Chavin
Chinga Chavin is the stage name of American musician and advertising executive Nathan Allen "Nick" Chavin. Chavin released the album ''Country Porn'' in 1976 on Attic Records. Life and career Nick "Chinga" Chavin was born in 1944. He achieved considerable notoriety when he recorded and released the raunchy comedy album ''Country Porn'' in 1976. It was sold through the mail by '' Penthouse'' magazine and sold over 100,000 units. ''Country Porn'' was reissued on CD in 1992 with liner notes, a booklet complete with song lyrics and photographs, and four bonus songs. Track 2 of the album is a song Chavin wrote with friend Kinky Friedman, the comedic "Asshole from El Paso," a blithely vulgar parody of the country classic "Okie From Muskogee" by Merle Haggard. Friedman later recorded a much shorter and less rudely worded version of the song. Track 3 of the album, "Cum Stains on the Pillow", was covered in reworded form by David Allan Coe David Allan Coe (born September 6, 1939) is an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Operation Chavín De Huántar
Operation Chavín de Huántar was a military operation in which a team of 142 commandos of the Peruvian Armed Forces ended the 1997 Japanese embassy hostage crisis by raiding the Japanese ambassador's residence and freeing the hostages held there by the terrorist organization Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA). It is considered one of the most successful hostage rescues in the world. Operation Preparation The name ''Chavín de Huántar'' was chosen for the operation because to make the incursion possible, tunnels were to be dug under the ambassador's residence from adjacent buildings. Chavín de Huántar is an archeological site in the central highlands of Peru which is famous for its underground passageways. It is said that President Alberto Fujimori himself came up with the name. The rescue operation was prepared and exercised in an exact replica of the residence located at the nearby Chorrillos Military School; there the commandos practiced every detail of the operat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
