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  2. Tayrona National Natural Park - Wikipedia

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    The Tayrona National Natural Park ( Spanish: Parque Nacional Natural Tayrona) is a protected area in the Colombian northern Caribbean region and within the jurisdiction of the city of Santa Marta, 34 kilometres (21 mi) from the city centre. The park presents a biodiversity endemic to the area of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta mountain range ...

  3. 2023–2024 El Niño event - Wikipedia

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    The Pacific Ocean and surrounding areas. The 2023–2024 El Niño was regarded as the fourth-most powerful El Niño–Southern Oscillation event in recorded history, resulting in widespread droughts, flooding and other natural disasters across the globe. The onset was declared on 4 July 2023 by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) [1] [2 ...

  4. Like water sloshing in a giant bathtub, El Niño begins an ...

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    Ned Kleiner. May 12, 2024 at 6:00 AM. Waves from an El Niño storm slam into the seawall of a beach community in Ventura County in January 2016. (Los Angeles Times) A few weeks ago, the Australian ...

  5. Tairona - Wikipedia

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    Tairona. Tairona or Tayrona was a Pre-Columbian culture of Colombia, which consisted in a group of chiefdoms in the region of Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in present-day Cesar, Magdalena and La Guajira Departments of Colombia, South America, which goes back at least to the 1st century AD and had significant demographic growth around the 11th ...

  6. SER-Niños Charter School - Wikipedia

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    SER-Niños II Middle school campus. SER-Niños Charter School ("Niños" means children in Spanish) is a PreK-8 state charter school in the Gulfton area of Houston, Texas. The school has three campuses: An elementary school, a middle school, and SER-Niños Charter School II.

  7. Caño Cristales - Wikipedia

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    Caño Cristales ( Spanish pronunciation: [ˈkaɲo kɾisˈtales]; English: "Crystal Channel") is a Colombian river located in the Serranía de la Macarena, an isolated mountain range in the Meta Department. It is a tributary of the Guayabero River, itself a part of the Orinoco basin. Caño Cristales was found in 1969 by a group of cattle farmers.

  8. Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta - Wikipedia

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    3,830 km 2 (1,480 sq mi) Established. 1964. Governing body. SINAP. The Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta (English: Snow-Covered Mountain Range of Saint Martha) is an isolated mountain range in northern Colombia, separate from the Andes range that runs through the north of the country. Reaching an elevation of 5,700 m (18,700 ft) just 42 km (26 mi ...

  9. Monumento a los Niños Héroes - Wikipedia

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    Niños Héroes. The Monumento a los Niños Héroes ("Monument to the Boy Heroes"), officially Altar a la Patria ("Altar to the Homeland"), is a monument installed in the park of Chapultepec in Mexico City, Mexico. [1] It commemorates the Niños Héroes, six mostly teenage military cadets who were killed defending Mexico City from the United ...