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Website. www .sancristobal .gob .mx (in Spanish) San Cristóbal de las Casas ( Spanish: [saŋkɾisˈtoβal de las ˈkasas] ⓘ ), also known by its native Tzotzil name, Jovel ( pronounced [xɤ̞ˈve̞l] ), is a town and municipality located in the Central Highlands region of the Mexican state of Chiapas. It was the capital of the state until ...
San Cristóbal, Dominican Republic. / 18.41667°N 70.10556°W / 18.41667; -70.10556. San Cristóbal [4] is a city in the southern region of Dominican Republic. It is the municipal ( municipio) capital of the San Cristóbal province. The municipality is located in a valley at the foothills of the mountains belonging to the Cordillera ...
Castillo San Cristóbal ( English: Saint Christopher Castle) is a fortress in the historic district of Old San Juan, Puerto Rico, known as the largest fortification built by the Spanish in the New World. [2] Dating back to defense expansions following attacks by the English in 1598 and the Dutch in 1625, it was first built in 1634 as the Garita ...
San Cristóbal (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈsaŋ kɾisˈtoβal]) is a province in the southern region of Dominican Republic, located west of the capital Santo Domingo. With approximately 642,000 inhabitants, it is the fourth most populated province in the country, only behind Santo Domingo , Santiago and the National District .
Names. San Cristóbal is Spanish for Saint Christopher, reckoned in Catholicism as the patron saint of sailors.. The English pirate William Ambrosia Cowley named it Dassigney's Island in 1684, later shortened to Dassigney or Dassigny Island, in honor of Philip Dassigny, the member of Bartholomew Sharp's crew who translated the Spanish atlas that saved the captain from being hanged for piracy.
The San Cristobal mine in Lipez, Potosí Department, Bolivia is an open-pit silver, lead and zinc mine near the town of San Cristóbal, Potosí. The mine, operated by Sumitomo Corporation, produces approximately 1,300 metric tons of zinc-silver concentrate and 300 tons of lead-silver concentrate per day, as of August 2010, [1] by processing ...
San Cristóbal ( Spanish pronunciation: [saŋ kɾisˈtoβal]) is the capital city of the Venezuelan state of Táchira. It is located in a mountainous region of Western Venezuela. The city is situated 818 metres (2,684 ft) above sea level in the northern Andes overlooking the Torbes River, 56 kilometres (35 mi) from the Colombian border.
San Cristóbal Verapaz ( Spanish pronunciation: [saŋ kɾisˈtoβal βeɾaˈpas]) is a town, with a population of 20,961 (2018 census), [2] and a municipality (population 68,819 at 2018 census) in the Guatemalan department of Alta Verapaz. It is located approximately 29 km from Cobán, the capital of Alta Verapaz and about 210 km from Guatemala ...