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Marana was named for the Spanish word maraña ("thicket") by 19th-century railroad workers who had to clear a line through the area. In 2007, Marana began hosting the PGA Tour's WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship (now the WGC-Cadillac Match Play Championship). Held in late February, the event included the world's top 64 professional golfers.
UTC+1 ( CET) • Summer ( DST) UTC+2 ( CEST) Postal Code. 24996. Telephone prefix. 987. Maraña ( Spanish pronunciation: [maˈɾaɲa]) is a small village in Spain in the province of León, in the Picos de Europa, close to Asturias. The major festival is August 15, the Festival of Our Lady of Riosol.
An 1893 painting by Moshe Maimon. Marranos is one of the terms used in relation to Spanish and Portuguese Jews who converted or were forced by the Spanish and Portuguese crowns to convert to Christianity during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, but continued to practice Judaism in secrecy or were suspected of it, referred to as Crypto-Jews.
The Northern Mariana Islands, officially the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands [b] ( CNMI; Chamorro: Sankattan Siha Na Islas Mariånas; Carolinian: Commonwealth Téél Falúw kka Efáng llól Marianas ), is an unincorporated territory and commonwealth of the United States consisting of 14 islands in the northwestern Pacific Ocean ...
The Mariana Islands ( / ˌmæriˈɑːnə / MARR-ee-AH-nə; Chamorro: Manislan Mariånas ), also simply the Marianas, are a crescent-shaped archipelago comprising the summits of fourteen [1] longitudinally oriented, mostly dormant volcanic mountains in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, between the 12th and 21st parallels north and along the 145th ...
The Mariana Trench is an oceanic trench located in the western Pacific Ocean, about 200 kilometres (124 mi) east of the Mariana Islands; it is the deepest oceanic trench on Earth. It is crescent-shaped and measures about 2,550 km (1,580 mi) in length and 69 km (43 mi) in width. The maximum known depth is 10,984 ± 25 metres (36,037 ± 82 ft ...
Mission San Xavier del Bac ( Spanish: La Misión de San Xavier del Bac) is a historic Spanish Catholic mission located about 10 miles (16 km) south of downtown Tucson, Arizona, on the Tohono O'odham Nation San Xavier Indian Reservation. The mission was founded in 1692 by Padre Eusebio Kino [1] in the center of a centuries-old settlement of the ...
Marana may refer to: Maraña, a village in León, Spain. Maraṇa, the Pali/Sanskrit term for death. Marana, Arizona, a town in Pima County, Arizona, United States. Marana, Estonia, a village in Estonia. Marana, Syria, a village in Syria. Uva Marana, a synonym of the Italian wine grape Verdicchio.