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watermelon
Watermelon (''Citrullus lanatus'') is a flowering plant species of the Cucurbitaceae family and the name of its edible fruit. A scrambling and trailing vine-like plant, it is a highly cultivated fruit worldwide, with more than 1,000 var ...
" in Spanish. Sandia may also refer to:
Places
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Sandia, California, community in Imperial County
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Sandia, Texas, town in the USA
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Sandia, Peru
Sandia is a town in Southern Peru, capital of the province Sandia in the region Puno
Puno ( Aymara and qu, Punu) is a city in southeastern Peru, located on the shore of Lake Titicaca. It is the capital city of the Puno Region and the Puno ...
, town in the Puno region of Peru, capital of
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Sandia Province
Sandia Province is a province of the Puno Region in Peru. The capital of the province is the city of Sandia.
Geography
The Apolobamba mountain range traverses the province. Some of the highest mountains of the province are listed below:
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, province in the Puno region
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Sandia Mountains
The Sandia Mountains ( Southern Tiwa: ''Posu gai hoo-oo'', Keres: ''Tsepe,'' Navajo: ''Dził Nááyisí''; Tewa: ''O:ku:p’į'', Northern Tiwa: ''Kep’íanenemą''; Towa: ''Kiutawe'', Zuni: ''Chibiya Yalanne'') are a mountain range located ...
, a mountain range near Albuquerque in New Mexico, USA, which gave their name to
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Sandia Heights
Sandia Heights is a census-designated place (CDP) in Bernalillo County, New Mexico, United States. The population was 10,293 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Albuquerque Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Geography
Sandia Heights is located in ...
, New Mexico
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Pueblo of Sandia Village, New Mexico
Pueblo of Sandia Village is a census-designated place (CDP) in Sandoval County, New Mexico, United States. The population was 344 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Albuquerque Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Geography
Pueblo of Sandia V ...
, U.S. census-designated location
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Sandia Mountain Wilderness
Sandia Mountain Wilderness, part of Cibola National Forest, is located east of Albuquerque, New Mexico, and comprises much of Sandia Mountains. It became part of the National Wilderness Preservation System in 1978 by an act of the United States ...
, in New Mexico, USA
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Sandia High School
Sandia High School (SHS) is a Public High School located in the northeast heights of Albuquerque, New Mexico. It is a member of the Albuquerque Public Schools district. The current enrollment is 1,776.
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History
The school opened in 1958 a ...
, high school in Albuquerque, New Mexico
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Sandia Motorsport Park
Suika Circuit (formerly known as Sandia Speedway, Sandia Motorsport Park and NAPA Speedway) is a multiple use racing facility located in Albuquerque, New Mexico
Albuquerque ( ; ), ; kee, Arawageeki; tow, Vakêêke; zun, Alo:ke:k'ya; apj, G ...
, racing venue in Albuquerque, New Mexico
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Sandia Preparatory School
Sandia Preparatory School is an independent college preparatory school located in Albuquerque, New Mexico serving students in sixth through twelfth grade. The school is accredited by the Independent Schools Association of the Southwest (ISAS) an ...
, in Albuquerque, New Mexico
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Sandia View Academy, in Corrales, New Mexico
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Sandia Base
Sandia Base was the principal nuclear weapons installation of the United States Department of Defense from 1946 to 1971. It was located on the southeastern edge of Albuquerque, New Mexico. For 25 years, the top-secret Sandia Base and its subsidia ...
, nuclear weapons base
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Sandia National Laboratories
Sandia National Laboratories (SNL), also known as Sandia, is one of three research and development laboratories of the United States Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA). Headquartered in Kirtland Air Force Bas ...
, a major United States Department of Energy research and development national laboratory
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Sandia Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Lockheed Martin Corporation, which formerly managed and operated the Sandia National Laboratories
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Sandia Peak Tramway
The Sandia Peak Tramway is an aerial tramway located adjacent to Albuquerque, New Mexico. It stretches from the northeast edge of the city to Sandia Peak on the ridge line of the Sandia MountainsThe upper station of the tramway is at a point on ...
, tram way in New Mexico
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Sandia Pueblo
Sandia Pueblo (; Tiwa: Tuf Shur Tia) is a federally recognized tribe of Native American Pueblo people inhabiting a reservation of the same name in the eastern Rio Grande Rift of central New Mexico. It is one of 19 of New Mexico's Native Amer ...
, a Native American tribe
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Sandia Casino
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Sandia (butterfly)''
Ehrlich & Clench 1960, a genus of
butterflies
Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. The group comprises t ...
* Invalid genus names preoccupied by the butterflies:
** ''Sandia''
Sutherland & Harlow 1973,
brachiopod
Brachiopods (), phylum Brachiopoda, are a phylum of trochozoan animals that have hard "valves" (shells) on the upper and lower surfaces, unlike the left and right arrangement in bivalve molluscs. Brachiopod valves are hinged at the rear end, ...
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** ''Sandia''
Theron 1982,
Hemiptera (true bugs)
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Sandia Furtado, Indian actress
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Sandia hairstreak
The Sandia hairstreak (''Callophrys mcfarlandi'') is a species of butterfly Endemism, native to North America.
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(''Callophrys mcfarlandi''), species of butterfly
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