Algarrobo may refer to:
Places
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Algarrobo, Chile
Algarrobo () is a Chilean List of cities in Chile, city and Communes of Chile, commune in San Antonio Province, Valparaíso Region. Located on the country's central coast, it is a popular summer resort for the population of Santiago, Chile, Santia ...
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Algarrobo, Magdalena
Algarrobo () is a town and municipality of the Magdalena Department in northern Colombia
Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country primarily located in South America with Insular region of Colombia, insular regions in No ...
, Colombia
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Algarrobo, Spain
Algarrobo is a town and municipality in the province of Málaga, part of the autonomous community of Andalusia in southern Spain. The municipality is situated in the coastal area of La Axarquía, 32 kilometers from the city of Málaga. It is bord ...
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Algarrobo, Aibonito, Puerto Rico
Algarrobo is a barrio in the municipality of Aibonito, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 383.
History
Algarrobo was in Spain's gazetteers until Puerto Rico was ceded by Spain in the aftermath of the Spanish–American War under the terms o ...
, a barrio
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Algarrobo, Guayama, Puerto Rico
Algarrobo is a barrio in the municipality of Guayama, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 6,959.
History
Algarrobo was in Spain's gazetteers until Puerto Rico was ceded by Spain in the aftermath of the Spanish–American War under the terms ...
, a barrio
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Algarrobo, Vega Baja, Puerto Rico
Algarrobo is a barrio in the municipality of Vega Baja, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 15,764.
Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, in 2010 the barrio had a total area of square miles, including square miles of land ...
, a barrio
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Algarrobo, Yauco, Puerto Rico
Algarrobo is a barrio in the municipality of Yauco, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 419.
History
Algarrobo was in Spain's gazetteers until Puerto Rico was ceded by Spain in the aftermath of the Spanish–American War under the terms of t ...
, a barrio
Plants
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Ceratonia siliqua
The carob ( ; ''Ceratonia siliqua'') is a flowering evergreen tree or shrub in the Caesalpinioideae sub-family of the legume family, Fabaceae. It is widely cultivated for its edible fruit, which takes the form of seed pods, and as an orname ...
'', the European carob tree
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Prosopis
''Prosopis'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. The current circumscription of the genus contains three species found in northern Africa, the Middle East, Central and South Asia. Previously it also contained around 40 species ...
'', a genus of flowering plants in South America and elsewhere
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Samanea saman
''Samanea saman'' is a species of Flowering plant, flowering tree in the pea family, Fabaceae, now in the Mimosoideae, Mimosoid clade and is native to Central and South America. It is often placed in the genus ''Samanea'', which by yet other aut ...
'', a flowering tree called Algarrobo in Cuba
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Hymenaea
''Hymenaea'' is a genus of plants in the legume family Fabaceae. Of the fourteen living species in the genus, all but one are native to the tropics of the Americas, with one additional species ('' Hymenaea verrucosa'') on the east coast of ...
'', a genus of flowering plants in Colombia and the Americas
See also
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Algarrobos, a barrio in the municipality of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico
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El Algarrobo
El Algarrobo is a closed iron mine in north-central Chile. Geologically it is an iron oxide-apatite (IOA) type of deposit. El Algarrobo is part of a wider province of iron ores known as the Chilean Iron Belt. From the 1970s onward El Romeral hav ...
, an iron mine in northern Chile
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