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Montes De Oca (cantón) , a river in the north of Spain, whose ...
Montes de Oca (Spanish for "mountains of goose" or "hills of goose") may refer to: People * Montes de Oca (surname), includes a list of notable people with this surname Places * La Unión de Isidoro Montes de Oca, a municipality in Guerrero state, Mexico * Montes de Oca (canton), in Costa Rica * Montes de Oca (comarca), in Burgos province, Spain * Montes de Oca, Argentina, a town in Santa Fe Province in Argentina * Villafranca Montes de Oca, a municipality in Burgos province, Spain Other uses * ARM ''Cadete Fernando Montes de Oca'', a former minesweeper of the Mexican Navy * Fernando Montes de Oca Fencing Hall, an indoor sports venue in Mexico City, Mexico See also * * Oca (river) The Oca river is a short river, about long, in the north of Spain. It is an affluent of the Ebro river that flows through the province of Burgos. It begins in the Sistema Ibérico range and flows north through the municipalities of Rábanos, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Montes De Oca (surname)
Montes de Oca is a Spanish surname meaning "mountains of goose" or "hills of goose". Notable people with the surname include: Religion * Ignacio Montes de Oca y Obregón (1840–1921), Mexican archbishop * Salvador Montes de Oca (1895–1944), Venezuelan bishop Sports Baseball * Bryce Montes de Oca (born 1996), American baseball player * Christian Montes De Oca (born 1999), Dominican baseball player * Eliecer Montes de Oca (born 1971), Cuban baseball player *José Montes de Oca (fl. 1908–1909), Cuban baseball player Football (soccer) * Ángel Montes de Oca (born 2003), Dominican Republic footballer * Estíbaliz Montes de Oca (born 1999), Swedish-born footballer for Chile * Miguel Montes de Oca (born 1982), Argentine footballer Other sports *Daniel Montes de Oca (born 1962), Uruguayan tennis player * Deysy Montes de Oca (born 1990), Dominican taekwondo practitioner * Javiel Montes De Oca (born 1997), Cuban volleyball player Other * Fernando Montes de Oca (1829–1847), Mexican ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Unión De Isidoro Montes De Oca
La Unión de Isidoro Montes de Oca is a municipality in the Mexican state of Guerrero and is the westernmost municipality in Guerrero. The municipal seat lies at La Unión. The municipality covers an area of . As of 2005, the municipality had a total population of 25,230. The main towns are La Unión, population 3,079; Petacalco, population 2,671; Zacatula, population 1,417; Lagunillas, population 1,371; El Naranjito, population 1,167; and Surcua, population 1,046.Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía. Principales resultados por localidad 2005 (ITER). Retrieved on December 23, 2008 History On October 26, 1614, the Dutch Captain Joris van Spilbergen Joris van Spilbergen (1 November 1568 in Antwerp – 13 January 1620 in Bergen op Zoom) was a Dutch naval officer. His first major expedition was in 1596, when he sailed to Africa. He then left for Asia on 5 May 1601, from Veere, a seapor ... - involved in his country's war with Spain - raided with an expe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Montes De Oca (canton)
Montes de Oca is a Cantons of Costa Rica, canton in the San José Province, San José province of Costa Rica. The head city of the canton is San Pedro District, Montes de Oca, San Pedro. Toponymy Its name honors a former congressional representative from the area, Don Faustino Montes de Oca (1859–1902). History Montes de Oca was created on 1 August 1915 by decree 45. Government Mayor According to Costa Rica's Local government in Costa Rica, Municipal Code, mayors are elected every four years by the population of the canton. As of the latest 2024 Costa Rican municipal elections, municipal elections in 2024, the Social Christian Unity Party (PUSC) candidate, Domingo Arguello García, was elected mayor of the canton with 25.56% of the votes, with Haydee Castillo Castro and Andrés Vesalio Guzmán Gómez as first and second vice mayors, respectively. Municipal Council Like the mayor and vice mayors, members of the Municipal Council (called ) are elected every four years ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Montes De Oca (comarca)
Montes de Oca is a ''comarca'' located east of the province of Burgos, in the autonomous community of Castile and León. It is bounded on the north by La Bureba, south by the Sierra de la Demanda comarca, on the east by the province of La Rioja and west by the Alfoz de Burgos. History When the Roman legions arrived to the area, it was the territory of the Autrigones tribe. After the Berber withdrawal, Alfonso II's depopulation (circa 742) and the razzias undertaken at the turn of the ninth century, the Montes de Oca were repopulated mainly by Astures, Cantabri, Visigoths, and Vascones (Basques) in the mid-ninth century, although remained border between the County of Castile with the Caliphate of Córdoba and its allies for at least a century and was afterwards border between kingdom of Castile and the kingdom of Navarre till the mid-twelfth century. During this period the shire to which belonged change from one kingdom to another until finally passed to the kingdom of Castile ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Montes De Oca, Argentina
Montes de Oca is a town in the Belgrano Department of Santa Fe Province, Argentina. Notable people * , footballer * Jerónimo Cacciabue Jerónimo Cacciabue (born 24 January 1998) is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a central midfielder for Ecuadorian Serie A club Universidad Católica. Career Cacciabue began his senior career with Newell's Old Boys, having si ..., footballer References Populated places in Santa Fe Province Populated places established in 1888 1888 establishments in Argentina {{SantaFeAR-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Villafranca Montes De Oca
Villafranca Montes de Oca is a municipality, former medieval bishopric and present Latin titular see located in the province of Burgos, Castile and León, northern Spain. According to the 2005 census ( INE), the municipality has a population of 164 inhabitants. Ecclesiastical history It was originally known as Oca (Latin: ''Auca'') and was the seat of a (Latin Catholic) bishopric, precursor of the present the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Burgos, established no later than 589, when its bishop Asterio attended the Third Council of Toledo, but vaguer notations may trace it back as early as the 3rd century AD. Monastic life flourished there during the Visigothic Catholic Kingdom of Toledo (6th-8th century). However, in the 8th century, Arab Muslim invaders destroyed Oca, rendering its bishops errant, quoted by sources at Amaya, Valpuesta, Muñó, Sasamón, Oña, Gamonal, only to have their 'see' formally suppressed to restore definitively the Diocese of Burgos in 1075, c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ARM Cadete Fernando Montes De Oca
USS ''Rebel'' (AM-284) was an built for the United States Navy during World War II. She was awarded four battle stars for service in the Pacific during World War II. She was decommissioned in June 1946 and placed in reserve. While she remained in reserve, ''Rebel'' was reclassified as MSF-284 in February 1955 but never reactivated. In October 1962, she was sold to the Mexican Navy and renamed ARM ''DM-14''. In 1994, she was renamed ARM ''Cadete Fernando Montes de Oca'' (C57). She was stricken in July 2001, but her ultimate fate is not reported in secondary sources. U.S. Navy career ''Rebel'' was laid down by the General Engineering & Dry Dock Co., Alameda, California, on 10 May 1943 and launched on 28 October 1943, sponsored by Mrs. , wife of the commander of the Coast Guard base in Alameda. She was launched the same day and at the same facility as the USS ''Tawakoni''. ''Rebel'' was commissioned on 12 September 1944. Following shakedown off the California coast, ''Rebel'' ste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fernando Montes De Oca Fencing Hall
The Fernando Montes de Oca Fencing Hall is an indoor sports venue located in the Magdalena Mixhuca Sports City area of Mexico City. It hosted the Fencing at the 1968 Summer Olympics, fencing competitions and the fencing part of the Modern pentathlon at the 1968 Summer Olympics, modern pentathlon competition of the 1968 Summer Olympics. The Olympic Fencing Hall was built between November 13, 1967, and September 1968, in the Magdalena Mixhuca Sports City. The rectangular structure is covered by a convex roof of corrugated asbestos supported by steel cables. For the Olympics, the ground floor had 15 fencing strips—each of which was provided with a two-sided scoreboard, a judges' podium and a control table—and 37 cubicles for competitors. On the south side were facilities for the press, dressing rooms, etc. The north side housed offices, a lounge, a warm-up area and additional dressing rooms and service areas. On the upper floor were grandstands with a seating capacity of 3,000. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
