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Wiktionary
n. A city in Alaska.
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 1645
Land area (2000): 221.966304 sq. miles (574.890063 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 55.092057 sq. miles (142.687766 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 277.058361 sq. miles (717.577829 sq. km)
FIPS code: 82200
Located within: Alaska (AK), FIPS 02
Location: 61.122947 N, 146.305178 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 99686
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Valdez
Wikipedia
Valdez or Valdés may refer to:
Valdez or Valdés is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Al Valdes, Canadian football player
- Antonio Valdés y Fernández Bazán, Spanish naval officer for whom Valdez, Alaska is named
- Bebo Valdés, (1918–2013), Cuban jazz composer and arranger
- Cayetano Valdés y Flores (1767–1834), Spanish naval officer and explorer
- Chayito Valdez (born 1945), Mexican musician and entertainer
- Chucho Valdés, (born 1941), Cuban jazz musician and pianist
- Cynthia Valdez (born 1987), Mexican rhythmic gymnast
- Germán Valdés (1915–1973), Mexican actor, singer and comedian
- Juan Dominguez y Valdez (1784 -?) military of Texas
- Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés (1478–1557), Spanish historian
- Jerónimo Valdés (1785–1855), Spanish general and governor of Cuba
- Juan de Valdés (1500–1541), Spanish religious writer
- Juan Meléndez Valdés (1754–1817), Spanish poet
- Juan Valdez, a Costa Rican man who played a role in the Juan Valdez drinks Costa Rican coffee litigation
- José Ramón Guizado Valdés (dates unknown), President of Panama 1955
- José Travassos Valdez (1787–1862), Portuguese soldier and statesman
- Miguel Alemán Valdés (1902–1983), President of Mexico 1946–1952
- Nelson Haedo Valdez (born 1983), Paraguayan footballer
- Peter Valdes (died before 1219), founder of the Waldensians
- Ramon Maximiliano Valdés, President of Panama 1916–1918
- Ramón Valdés (1923–1988), Mexican actor
- Rodrigo Valdez (born 1946), Colombian former middleweight boxer
- Roy Valdés (born 1920), Cuban Major League Baseball player
- Víctor Valdés (born 1982), Spanish football goalkeeper
- Wendy Valdez (born 1982), Filipina beauty queen, former reality star, and actress
- Wilmar Valdez (born 1965), Uruguayan football executive
- Gov. Juan Valdez, colonial governor of Texas
Usage examples of "valdez".
Woodle told me there was a spill at Valdez before the Exxon collision, though not nearly as large.
Failure to contain the Exxon Valdez spreading oil is what destroyed the coastline.
Alaskan oil game began in 1969 when the oil group bought the most valuable real estate in all Alaska, the Valdez oil terminal land, from the Chugach Natives.
And the night the Exxon Valdez grounded, the emergency spill-response barge which carries oil-containment barriers and pumps was sitting in a dry dock in Valdez locked in ice.
When the Exxon Valdez grounded, there was no Native spill crew, only chaos.
That night, the Exxon Valdez oil tanker ran aground and killed the fish, smothered the clam beds and poisoned all the seal on which Chenegans subsisted.
The Chugach campsite on Valdez harbour happened to be the only place on the entire Alaska coast that could geologically support an oil tanker terminal.
Native crew cleaning up tons of toxic crude oil still oozing out of Sleepy Bay eight years after the Exxon Valdez grounding.
Following the Exxon Valdez disaster in Alaska, an Exxon-British Petroleum joint venture wiretapped and bugged the home of a whistleblower working with the US Congress.
When the Exxon Valdez grounded, he fought the oil company to get compensation for the Natives of Alaska.
This thing with Valdez went against all that, but you get what you pay for.
The sitting figure of Valdez came into focus, two holes chest high, pistol spun away from him.