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Santa Gertrudis (the name of Saint Gertrude) may refer to:
Canada:
- Santa Gertrudis-Boca del Infierno Provincial Park, in British Columbia
Mexico:
- Santa Gertrudis, Oaxaca, a town in the state of Oaxaca
:* Santa Gertrudis (municipality): municipality centred on that town
- Santa Gertrudis, Veracruz, village in Veracruz
- Santa Gertrudis, Chihuahua, a town and Air Force base in the state of Chihuahua
- Santa Gertrudis de Carbonera, former name of Villa Juárez, San Luis Potosí
- Misión Santa Gertrudis, a mission in the state of Baja California Sur
Spain:
- Santa Gertrudis de Fruitera, a town in the municipality of Santa Eulària des Riu, Eivissa
United States:
- Santa Gertrudis cattle, a breed of cattle from Texas
Santa Gertrudis is a municipality in the state of Oaxaca. Its municipal seat is also called Santa Gertrudis. Its territory encompases 21.69km, representing 0.02% of the total area of the state. Its approximate distance to the capital city of Oaxaca is 41 km. It is part of the Zimatlán District in the west of the Valles Centrales Region
Its climate is temperate, with prevailing winds from the north.
According to the INEGI 2005 census, the municipality has a total of 2,661 people, with a total of 689 housing units.
Its major economic activities are industries, products and services, agriculture and livestock. Agriculture is the economic basis, with 80% of the population taking part. The breeding and sale of livestock, small business activities, bureaucratic functions occupy approximately 20% of the population. The economically active population of the town amounts to 943.
The regional cuisine consists of mole accompanied with white rice, beef stew, pork liver with scrambled egg ( for breakfast)and typical drinks as chocolate, chocolate atole, tejate, and mescal.
Usage examples of "santa gertrudis".
He bought a huge chunk of Petit Jean Mountain, about fifty miles west of Little Rock, became a successful breeder of Santa Gertrudis cattle, and married his second wife, Jeannette.
It had been injured from an encounter with one of his angry Santa Gertrudis bulls.
They didn't like him raising cattle, they disapproved of his owning a large block of prime pasture in Meriwether County, they objected to the fact that he'd arranged the first shipment of Brezhnev bears from the Soviet Union and now raised the critters -- along with a thousand head of Santa Gertrudis cattle -- on Berthelot Acres.
I work for a firm of accountants now, but my family still has a pretty formidable Santa Gertrudis purebred operation.
All he learned reinforced his desire h to follow Bawu's successful experiments wit cross-breeding the indigenous Afrikaner strain, known for its hardiness and disease- and drou lit-resistance, with the quicker yielding Santa Gertrudis strain.