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  2. Marana, Arizona - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. List of Spanish words of Iberian origin - Wikipedia

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    cuérrago "riverbed"; also Portuguese córrego and corgo, from Late Latin corrugus "canal, water conduit in a mine", from Iberian; related to arroyo. galápago "tortoise" (also Catalan calàpat "toad"), from * calappacu. gándara "low wasteland, wilderness", from Late Latin gangadia. garabato "pothook; squiggle".

  4. Marijuana (word) - Wikipedia

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    Marijuana, or marihuana, is a name for the cannabis plant, and more specifically, a drug preparation from it. [1] [2] [3] "Marijuana" as a term varies in usage, definition and legal application around the world. [4] Some jurisdictions define "marijuana" as the whole cannabis plant or any part of it, [5] while others refer to "marijuana" as a ...

  5. Morana (goddess) - Wikipedia

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    Marzanna. Poland. Marzanna Mother of Poland: modern imagination of goddess by Marek Hapon. Marzanna (in Polish), Morė (in Lithuanian), Marena (in Russian), Mara (in Ukrainian), Morana (in Czech, Slovene and Serbo-Croatian), Morena (in Slovak and Macedonian) or Mora (in Bulgarian) is a pagan Slavic goddess associated with seasonal rites based on the idea of death and rebirth of nature.

  6. List of Spanish words of Indigenous American Indian origin

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    This is a list of Spanish words that come from indigenous languages of the Americas. It is further divided into words that come from Arawakan, Aymara, Carib, Mayan, Nahuatl, Quechua, Taíno, Tarahumara, Tupi and uncertain (the word is known to be from the Americas, but the exact source language is unclear). Some of these words have alternate ...

  7. Juan Bautista de Anza National Historic Trail - Wikipedia

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    The Juan Bautista de Anza National Historic Trail is a 1,210-mile (1,950 km) trail extending from Nogales on the U.S.-Mexico border in Arizona, through the California desert and coastal areas in Southern California and the Central Coast region to San Francisco. [1] The trail commemorates the 1775–1776 land route that Spanish commander Juan ...

  8. Maraña - Wikipedia

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    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.

  9. Most common words in Spanish - Wikipedia

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    Most of the sources are from the 1990s. Of the 20 million words in the corpus, about one-third (~6,750,000 words) come from transcripts of spoken Spanish: conversations, interviews, lectures, sermons, press conferences, sports broadcasts, and so on. Among the written sources are novels, plays, short stories, letters, essays, newspapers, and the ...