Mapua High School
Mapua, Māpua or Mapúa may refer to: *Mapuá River, a river in the Pará state of north-central Brazil *Māpua, New Zealand, a small town on the South Island of New Zealand *Mapúa University, a tertiary institute in Manila, Philippines ** Mapúa Cardinals, varsity teams of the university *Tomás Mapúa Don Tomás Bautista Mapúa (December 21, 1888 – December 22, 1965) was a Filipino architect, educator and businessman from the Philippines. He was the founder and first president of the Mapúa Institute of Technology (MIT). Gonzalo T. ...

Mapuá River
The Mapuá River () is a river of Pará state in north-central Brazil. It is a left tributary of the Aramá River. In August 1659, the Treaty of the Mapuá was signed here by Portuguese Jesuits led by António Vieira with various indigenous peoples who inhabited the Marajó Archipelago. Course The Mapuá River rises on the island of Marajó in the delta region where the Amazon and Tocantins rivers empty into the Atlantic Ocean. It runs along the southern boundary of the Mapuá Extractive Reserve. The Mapuá is a left tributary of the Aramã, which forms the northern boundary of the reserve. The reserve contains sheets of tidal water and mangroves. The reserve is mostly lowland floodplain, with some terra firma in the centre of the territory. See also *List of rivers of Pará List of rivers in Pará ( Brazilian state). The list is arranged by drainage basin from north to south, with respective tributaries indented under each larger stream's name and ordered from downstream ...
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Māpua, New Zealand
Māpua is a small town in the South Island of New Zealand. It is to the west of Nelson, New Zealand, Nelson on New Zealand State Highway 60, State Highway 60 and on the coastline of Tasman Bay. With a thriving wharf and commercial area, Māpua has grown in popularity for visitors, with numbers swelling the region over the summer months. A large fair and market is held every Easter Sunday. Up to 10,000 people visit the town on this day to enjoy rides, stalls, and other attractions. The local schools and playcentre benefit from the fair, which is their primary fundraising activity. History Before 1930 Middens, tools and human bones found at Grossis Point and around the northern edges of the Waimea River (Tasman), Waimea inlet suggest small seasonal Māori people, Māori settlements were located here, with a major pā (fortified settlement) located on the Kina Cliffs to the north. The pā remained in use in the period of early European settlement of the Māpua district; the pub ...
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Mapúa University
Mapúa University (), also known simply as Mapúa or MU, is a Private university, private Research university, research-oriented Nonsectarian, non-sectarian university located in Metro Manila, Philippines. The university was founded in 1925 by the first registered Filipino architect, Tomás Mapúa, a graduate of Cornell University in New York (state), New York, US. In 2000, the university was acquired by the Yuchengco Group of Companies. The university's main campus is located in the historic Intramuros district of Manila, with a satellite campus located in Makati. The university is home to 10 degree-granting colleges and one secondary school department. It has nine programs recognized by the Commission on Higher Education (Philippines), Commission on Higher Education (CHED) as Centers of Excellence and Centers of Development. It also has 11 programs accredited by ABET, becoming the first university in Southeast Asia to receive accreditation from the organization. The university ...
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Mapúa Cardinals, Lady Cardinals And Red Robins
The Mapúa Cardinals and Lady Cardinals are the varsity sports teams of Mapúa University that play in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (Philippines). The Mapúa Cardinals holds the NCAA record for the most general championships in the seniors' division with a total of 20—the last of these championships was won in 1993. At a distant second is Colegio de San Juan de Letran, which has eight seniors' titles. Out of the total seniors' general championships won by the Cardinals, ten were from the 1980s to the mid-1990s, in addition to three (out of a total eight) in the juniors' division over the same period. Name The "Cardinal" in the team's name was adopted from the American baseball team the St. Louis Cardinals, of which Don Tomas Mapúa, the founder of the Mapúa Institute of Technology, was a fan. The juniors' (high school) team adopted the moniker Red Robins. Basketball History The Mapúa Cardinals won the NCAA Seniors' Championship six times (in 1949, 1965 ...
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