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    Punta Arenas Zanja a Pique El Páramo Sloggett Bay Lennox Island Wollaston Islands Between 1883 and 1906 Tierra del Fuego experienced a gold rush attracting...
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    reservoirs connected to the city's system, Zanja Madre. When the city abandoned the non-pressurized zanja system for a pressurized pipe system, these...
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    the Province of Biobío, Region of Biobío and the Region of Araucanía. Zanja de Alsina, built in the 1870s along the southern frontier of Argentina The...
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    Conquest of the Desert. To counter the cattle raids, a trench called the Zanja de Alsina was built by Argentina in the pampas in the 1870s. In the mid-19th...
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  • following streams: Mangrullo Baba Pacobá Curuzú Ycuá Porá Morotí Gasory Itacarú Zanja Pytá Cabayuby The main social-demographic indicators in the district report:...
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    expressed verbal opposition against the activities of Buenaventura's gold mine La Zanja. After corporate and government authorities failed to acknowledge their...
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    complete without mention of their extensive water supply systems. Stone zanjas (aqueducts, sometimes spanning miles, brought fresh water from a nearby...
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  • rivers. The first settlers built a water system consisting of ditches (zanjas) leading from the river through the middle of town and into the farmlands...
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    rancho, known officially by the name San Rafael but informally called "La Zanja" by Verdugo. The rancho's boundaries were primarily defined by the Verdugo...
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    storage for preserved foodstuffs and other treated materials. Three long zanjas (aqueducts) ran through the central courtyard and deposited the water they...
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    Rafael Ranch was originally an old Mexican land grant called San Rafael de la Zanja, which was sold to the cattle baron Colin Cameron and a few of his partners...
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  • printing house was on what is now Los Angeles Street, then called Calle Zanja Madre (Mother Ditch street), and sometimes Canal street. This site of Foster’s...
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    state park in 2001. In 2001, a 5-foot section (1.5 m) of the historical Zanja Madre irrigation canal was uncovered. In 2005, the former industrial site...
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    as in 1842 when Don Luis Arenas, owner of the Rancho Azusa de Dalton, constructed a zanja from the mouth of San Gabriel River to his homestead, a distance...
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  • Mill Creek Zanja...
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    from San Cristobal, the Fernández came from Puñal, the Valerio came from La Zanja, and finally, the Núñez and Franco came from Arroyo Hondo. Similar to the...
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    the original on 3 February 2020. Retrieved 3 February 2020. "Susana Díaz zanja el debate sobre su candidatura a las primarias del PSOE". El País (in Spanish)...
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