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The Palace of Running Waters (Spanish: Palacio de Aguas Corrientes) is an architecturally significant water pumping station in Buenos Aires, Argentina and the former headquarters of state-owned company Obras Sanitarias de la Nación. It is currently administered by Agua y Saneamientos Argentinos (AySA). The building, designed and completed in ...
In the high Sierra De Baoruco mountain range, of the southwestern Dominican Republic towards the border with Haiti. The town of Barahona and Enriquillo Lake are in the vicinity. The Three Eyes National Park (Parque Nacional Los Tres Ojos) Near Santo Domingo, this nature area features a series of caverns and underground lagoons.
Pedro Henríquez Ureña was born in Santo Domingo, the third of four siblings.Henríquez's father was Francisco Henríquez y Carvajal, a doctor and politician who was also an intellectual who maintained permanent contact with the most important representatives of the Hispanic Modernism movements from the early 20th century.
Enriquillo, an orphan, was later raised in a Santo Domingo monastery and given the name of "Enrico". [5] One of his mentors was Bartolomé de las Casas. De las Casas was a Spanish Roman Catholic Priest focused on the rights of Native Americans. [6] Enriquillo owned a steed and could read and write Castilian.
Gradual establishment of regional water and sewer companies (1973-1998) Santiago, the second city of the Dominican Republic. In 1973, under the second Presidency of Joaquín Balaguer (1966–1978), CAASD was set up in the capital Santo Domingo as the first regional water and sewer company.
The Santo Domingo Convent, or Basilic of Our Lady of the Rosary and Convent of Santo Domingo is a convent for Our Lady of the Rosary located in the Monserrat neighborhood of Buenos Aires. Built during the colonial times, it was the scenario of a military conflict during the British invasions of the Río de la Plata.
Aguas Corrientes is a small town in the Canelones Department of southern Uruguay. Its name (running waters) is derived from the installations of pumping, filtration and purification of water from the Santa Lucia River, which is the largest in the country, supplying drinking water to the departments of Montevideo and Canelones.
Saint Ignatius is the oldest church preserved in Buenos Aires, and was declared a National Historic Monument in 1942. [2] On June 16, 1955, during a government campaign against the Church, after a failed revolution against Juan Domingo Perón 's government, Peronist mobs burnt most churches of Buenos Aires, including Saint Ignatius.