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patagonia
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
South American region, with -ia + Patagon, name given by Europeans to the Tehuelche people who inhabited the coasts of the region, sometimes said to mean literally "large-foot," from Spanish and Portuguese pata "paw, animal foot" (see patten) in reference to the people's llama-skin shoes. But elsewhere said to be from Patagon, name of a dog-headed monster in the prose romance "Amadís de Gaula" (1508) by Garci Ordóñez de Montalvo (which also might have yielded California).
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 498
Land area (2000): 1.192704 sq. miles (3.089090 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.192704 sq. miles (3.089090 sq. km)
FIPS code: 53490
Located within: Arizona (AZ), FIPS 04
Location: 31.541743 N, 110.753428 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 85624
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Patagonia
Wikipedia
Patagonia is a sparsely populated region located at the southern end of South America, shared by Argentina and Chile. The region comprises the southern section of the Andes mountains as well as the deserts, steppes and grasslands east of this southern portion of the Andes. Patagonia has two coasts; a western one towards the Pacific Ocean and an eastern one towards the Atlantic Ocean.
The Colorado and Barrancas rivers, which run from the Andes to the Atlantic, are commonly considered the northern limit of Argentine Patagonia. The island of Tierra del Fuego is sometimes included as part of Patagonia. Most geographers and historians locate the northern limit of Chilean Patagonia at Reloncaví Estuary,
Patagonia is a region of South America
Patagonia may also refer to:
Animals- Patagonia (mammal), a gondwanathere
- Patagonia, Arizona, United States
- Patagonia Lake in Arizona
- Patagonia (clothing), an American outdoor clothing and gear company
- Patagonia (film), a 2010 film
- Patagonia Mail, the employer of the airmail pilot Fabien, in Antoine Saint-Exupéry's novel Night Flight
- ARA Patagonia, an AOR supply ship of the Argentine Navy
- Patagonia, a snout moth genus in tribe Phycitini
Patagonia, Inc. is an American clothing company founded by Yvon Chouinard in 1973 that sells and showcases mainly sustainable outdoor clothing. Based in Ventura, California, the company is part of several environmental movements and is a certified B Corp, meaning the company is committed to combatting public concerns (in this case environmental) alongside its profit motive.
The logo is the skyline of Cerro Fitz Roy looking west in Patagonia.
Patagonia is a 2010 British- Argentine drama film co-written and directed by Marc Evans. The story centers on Welsh and Argentine people connected to " Y Wladfa", the Welsh settlement in Patagonia, Argentina. The film stars several well-known Welsh actors including Matthew Rhys, Nia Roberts and the singer Duffy. It premiered at the Seattle International Film Festival on 10 June 2010 and had its UK premiere in Cardiff on 4 March 2011.
It was selected as the British entry for Best Foreign Language Film at the 84th Academy Awards, but it did not make the final shortlist.
Patagonia is an extinct genus of non- placental mammal from the Miocene of Argentina. Traditionally considered a metatherian incertae sedis, more recent analysis have shown it to be a gondwanathere. It is the youngest allothere species known.
Usage examples of "patagonia".
I have no doubt whatever the event occurred on the coast of Patagonia, but still I will have inquiries made in Glasgow, as to the destination of the BRITANNIA, and we shall know if it is possible she could have been wrecked on those shores.
June, 1862, the three-mast vessel, BRITANNIA, of Glasgow, has sunk on the coast of Patagonia, in the southern hemisphere.
As soon as they grew calmer they asked a complete string of questions, and Lady Helena recounted the whole story of the document, telling them that their father had been wrecked on the coast of Patagonia, and that he and two sailors, the sole survivors, appeared to have reached the shore, and had written an appeal for help in three languages and committed it to the care of the waves.
DUNCAN is going to bring back shipwrecked mariners who were cast away on the shores of Patagonia, and we could not alter such a destination.
Pampas in Patagonia are as much Indians as the natives of the Punjaub.
Oh, I make no question that the Geographical Society would have sent me to Patagonia as soon as to India, if I had sent in a request to that effect.
He would insist that Patagonia without Patagonians was not Patagonia at all.
It was much cooler, thanks to the violent and cold winds from Patagonia, which constantly agitate the atmospheric waves.
Harry Grant, from this very Patagonia so distinctly named in the document.
The natural inference is that, as far as regards Patagonia, our interpretation of the document was erroneous.
No other coast but the western coast of Patagonia could possibly, we thought, have been the scene of the shipwreck.
That was a plausible enough theory in Patagonia, but not in the part of Australia intersected by the 37th parallel.
After Patagonia, after Australia, his imagination, allured by a name, flew to New Zealand.
The names Patagonia, Australia, New Zealand, had appeared to him in turn with absolute certainty.
As soon as the DUNCAN had re-provisioned, she sailed along the coast of Patagonia, doubled Cape Horn, and made a swift run up the Atlantic Ocean.