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Joaquin, TX -- U.S. city in Texas
Population (2000): 925
Housing Units (2000): 400
Land area (2000): 2.303044 sq. miles (5.964857 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.006886 sq. miles (0.017835 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.309930 sq. miles (5.982692 sq. km)
FIPS code: 37684
Located within: Texas (TX), FIPS 48
Location: 31.965511 N, 94.048316 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 75954
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Joaquín (footballer)

Joaquín Sánchez Rodríguez (; born 21 July 1981), known simply as Joaquín, is a Spanish professional footballer who plays for Real Betis as a right winger.

He is well known for his pace and acceleration, as well as excellent dribbling and crossing ability. During his career he was mainly associated with Betis and Valencia, appearing in 425 La Liga games over the course of 13 seasons and scoring 53 goals. In the competition he also represented Málaga, signing with Fiorentina from Italy in 2013.

Joaquín was capped for Spain on 51 occasions, representing the nation in two World Cups and one European Championship.

Joaquín

See also San Joaquin for more uses of the specific name San Joaquin

Joaquín is the Spanish language version of Joachim. It is a male name which finds its origin in Hebrew and literally means "lifted by Yahweh". Jojakim (originally Eljakim) was a king of Judah in the Old Testament. His son was Jojachin. San Joaquín is the Spanish Language of the name of Saint Joachim, the traditional name for the father of Mary (mother of Jesus).

Usage examples of "joaquin".

Riverbank there were only three races of people, and the closest anyone came to being black was during the summer when brown buffalos ran practically naked in the sweltering heat of the San Joaquin Valley.

Big Beefy Chalupa, Ramirez exited the freeway at Bear Street, toward the San Joaquin Corridor.

These missions, called San Joaquin del Taruma, San Estanislao, and Belen, were quite apart from all the other missions of the Guaranis, far distant from the Chaco, and removed by an enormous distance from those of the Order in the Moxos and amongst the Chiquitos, forming, as it were, an oasis in the recesses of the Tarumensian woods.

Remington flechettes, inch-long steel darts that scythed through the still air of the hall, spreading out a little by the time they reached Joaquin and his two henchmen.

Ciudad de Vados when there are slums in Astoria Negra, lairs of criminals in Puerto Joaquin.

It was the last half of September, the very end of the dry season, and all Tulare County, all the vast reaches of the San Joaquin Valley--in fact all South Central California, was bone dry, parched, and baked and crisped after four months of cloudless weather, when the day seemed always at noon, and the sun blazed white hot over the valley from the Coast Range in the west to the foothills of the Sierras in the east.

His descriptions remind me of the luminous beachscapes painted by the Valencian Impressionist Joaquin Sorolla.

County Manager Joaquin Avino was in charge of building and zoning when some of the crummiest developments were approved.

This was an innovation in the San Joaquin, an idea of shrewd, quick-witted young Annixter, which Harran and Magnus Derrick had been quick to adopt, and after them Broderson and Osterman, and many others of the wheat growers of the county.

They-- these men around his table on that night of the first rain of a coming season--seemed to stand in his imagination for many others--all the farmers, ranchers, and wheat growers of the great San Joaquin.

Cedarquist turned to Harran and began asking details as to the conditions of the wheat growers of the San Joaquin.

The new committee accordingly had two objects in view: to resist the attempted grabbing of their lands by the Railroad, and to push forward their own secret scheme of electing a board of railroad commissioners who should regulate wheat rates so as to favour the ranchers of the San Joaquin.

These matters, these eternal fierce bickerings between the farmers of the San Joaquin and the Pacific and Southwestern Railroad irritated him and wearied him.

Cool water was provided to soothe his parched throat, but he refused to leave the collapsed chaitya until he saw Joaquin carefully carried out on a stretcher.

In his zeal to keep the International Players Championships at Crandon Park, County Manager Joaquin Avino wants tax dollars used to help pay for a permanent $16.