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Housing Units (2000): 5852
Land area (2000): 3.035712 sq. miles (7.862457 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 3.035712 sq. miles (7.862457 sq. km)
FIPS code: 12441
Located within: Puerto Rico (PR), FIPS 72
Location: 18.403878 N, 66.214664 W
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Candelaria
Wikipedia
Candelaria (or Candelária) may refer to:
Candelária is a civil parish located on the western coast of the island of Pico, in the municipality of Madalena in the Azores. The population in 2011 was 822, in an area of 29.70 km².
Candelária is a civil parish in the municipality of Ponta Delgada on the island of São Miguel in the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores. The population in 2011 was 1,079, in an area of 8.63 km². It is situated along the southwest flank of the Sete Cidades massif.
Candelaria is a genus of lichenized fungi in the Lecanoraceae family. The widespread genus contains 11 species.
Candelaria (Misiones) is a village and municipality in Misiones Province in north-eastern Argentina. Historically, the ownership of Candelaria was heavily disputed between Argentina and Paraguay. The Paraguayans abandoned it in 1815, but returned in 1821. By 1838, the surrounding area had been heavily fortified by the Paraguayans. Candelaria was returned to Argentina in 1870, following the defeat of Paraguay in the Paraguayan War.
Usage examples of "candelaria".
On leaving Cadiz the town was fired, and the cathedral, the church of the Jesuits, the nunneries of Santa Maria and Candelaria, two hundred and ninety houses, and, greatest loss of all, the library of the Jesuits, containing invaluable manuscripts respecting the Incas of Peru, were destroyed.
Despite the scorching midafternoon sun the crowds thronged downtown, from the Municipal Theater all the way up the mosaic sidewalks of the Avenida Rio Branco, past Praca Pio X and the magnificent old Candelaria Church, out along Avenida Presidente Vargas.
They had viewed the old city palace of the fugitive Portuguese sovereign Dom Joo VI, the Monroe palace, the cathedral, and the church of Our Lady of Candelaria with its twin towers and graceful dome.
Born of the enforced intimacy of the long years of training and the actual expedition to Mars, it fell apart almost as soon as they took their vows in the magnificent old Candelaria Church in Rio de Janeiro.