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    Puerto Marqués is a bay located on the Pacific Coast in the Mexican State of Guerrero. Approximately 10 kilometers (6.5 miles) south of the city of Acapulco...
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    René Marqués (October 4, 1919 – March 22, 1979) was a Puerto Rican short story writer and playwright. Marqués was born, raised and educated in the city...
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    golf course. Starting at the Scenic Highway in Las Brisas, it includes Puerto Marqués and Punta Diamante and extends to Barra Vieja Beach. It is 10 minutes...
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    The Puerto Rican Autonomist Party (Spanish: Partido Autonomista Puertorriqueño) was a political party in Puerto Rico founded in 1887. The Party was founded...
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    offshore Playa Manzanillo while two small vessels were found in the bay of Puerto Marqués. Further inland, ten road accidents occurred in the Toluca Valley in...
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    Santa Marina Soirana Vega Cima y Vigo Álvaro de Navia Osorio y Vigil, Marqués de Santa Cruz de Marcenado Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos, statesman and...
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  • politician Fernando Marqués (born 1984), Spanish footballer Francisco Domingo Marqués (1842–1920), Spanish painter Miguel Marqués (1843–1918), Spanish...
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    figures in Puerto Rican theater is René Marqués (1919-1979 ) author of The Oxcart (La Carreta), which dramatizes the hardships of a Puerto Rican family...
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    de peces en la Laguna Negra de Puerto Marqués" [High mortality of fish denounced in the Black Lagoon of Puerto Marqués]. El Sol de Acapulco (in Spanish)...
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    Palacio del Marqués de las Claras or Casino de Arecibo, as it is also known, was built in 1888 by Fernando Fernández Umpierre, Marqués de las Claras. At...
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    in the West, specifically at sites such as Matanchén, Nayarit, and Puerto Marqués, in Guerrero. Some authors hold that the early development of pottery...
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  • La Carreta (category Puerto Rican plays)
    La Carreta (English: The Oxcart) is a 1953 play by Puerto Rican playwright René Marqués. The story follows a family of "jíbaros", or rural peasants, that...
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    is produced. The main rum producing enterprise in Arecibo is Barceló, Marqués Y Co. Its flagship brand was Ron Palo Viejo. Ron Palo Viejo is now owned...
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    El Puerto de Santa María (Spanish pronunciation: [el ˈpweɾto ðe ˈsanta maˈɾi.a], lit. "the Port of Saint Mary"), locally known as El Puerto and historically...
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    Perla and the Governor of Puerto Rico Luis Muñoz Marín. The Puerto Rican classic play, La Carreta, (1953) by René Marqués, takes place in La Perla. A...
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    traditions in Mesoamerica. The most ancient remains have been found in Puerto Marqués, near Acapulco, and are about 3500 years old. During the Preclassic...
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    father, Tomás Campeche, was a freed slave born in Puerto Rico, and his mother María Jordán Marqués came from the Canary Islands. Since she was considered...
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  • lodges for smaller audiences. In 1940, Puerto Rican dramatist René Marqués began to develop an awareness of the Puerto Rican experience in the United States...
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    Galeana Atoyac de Álvarez, a town behind two coastal lagoons in Guerrero Puerto Marqués, 10 km south of Acapulco Papagayo River delta, and nearby lagoons Ometepec...
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    Throughout the history of Puerto Rico, its inhabitants have initiated several movements to gain independence for the island, first from the Spanish Empire...
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    the conquest and pacification of this New Spain, from the time when the Marqués del Valle [Cortés] entered it; and in his company I was present at all...
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    was an act enacted by the Puerto Rico legislature of 1948, with the purpose of suppressing the independence movement in Puerto Rico. The act made it a crime...
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    René Marqués (1919–1979), playwright; wrote La Carreta (The Oxcart), which helped secure his reputation as a leading literary figure in Puerto Rico Nemir...
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    pronunciation: [aɾeˈsiβo]) is a city and municipality on the northern coast of Puerto Rico, on the shores of the Atlantic Ocean, located north of Utuado and Ciales;...
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    indecency. (Puerto Rico does not have nudist beaches.) Mar Chiquita Beach, which is considered the most popular beach in the city. Marqués de la Esperanza...
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    popular music shows, and symphonic concerts. René Marqués Theater Hall – Dedicated to one of Puerto Rico's most famous playwrights and essayists, this...
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    Juan Ramón Jiménez (category Writers from San Juan, Puerto Rico)
    the University of Puerto Rico. His literary influence on Puerto Rican writers strongly marks the works of Giannina Braschi, René Marqués, Aurora de Albornoz...
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    Sergio Marqués Fernández (4 August 1946 – 8 May 2012) was a Spanish politician and lawyer. Marques served as the President of the Principality of Asturias...
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    possible evacuees across five states. Three ports in Guerrero, Acapulco, Puerto Marqués and Zihuatanejo along with Lázaro Cárdenas in Michoacán were closed...
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    The University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus (Spanish: Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Río Piedras; UPR-RP, or informally La IUPI) is a public...
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