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Chubasco. A chubasco is a violent squall with thunder and lightning, [1] encountered during the rainy season along the Pacific coast of Mexico, Central America, and South America . The word chubasco has its origins in the Portuguese word chuva which means rain. The monsoon [2] storms that regularly pass over the southwestern United States ...
Liga Deportiva Alajuelense ( LDA, Spanish pronunciation: [ˈliɣa ðepoɾˈtiβa alaxweˈlense] ), commonly known as Alajuelense and nicknamed La Liga ( Spanish pronunciation: [la ˈliɣa] ), is a Costa Rican multisport club based in the borough of El Llano, Alajuela, Alajuela province. Although they compete in a number of different sports ...
Liga Deportiva Alajuelense (1938–present) The Estadio Alejandro Morera Soto is a football stadium in El Llano neighborhood of Alajuela, Costa Rica, which is the home of Liga Deportiva Alajuelense, one of the most successful football clubs from Costa Rica. It also serves as the home ground of Carmelita, who rent the stadium from Alajuelense.
Provinces 1 Alajuela, 2 Cartago, 3 Guanacaste, 4 Heredia, 5 Limón, 6 Puntarenas, 7 San José. Costa Rica is composed of seven provinces, which in turn are divided into 82 cantons (Spanish: cantón, plural cantones), each of which is directed by a mayor. Mayors are chosen democratically every four years by each canton.
Alajuela is an important transport hub for the country, connecting the capital city of San José with northwestern Costa Rica. As a part of the Greater Metropolitan Area , most of the inhabitants of Alajuela work in other cities or regions of the Central Valley, and every day receives residents from other locations to work in local factories.
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San Pedro has an area of 13.63 km 2 [3] and an elevation of 1,148 metres. [1] It is in the mountains of the Cordillera Central (Central Mountain Range) in Costa Rica. It is 13 kilometers northwest of the provincial capital city of Alajuela and 32 kilometers from the national capital city of San Jose .
Joaquín Archivaldo Guzmán Loera ( Spanish: [xoaˈkin aɾtʃiˈβaldo ɣusˈman loˈeɾa]; born 4 April 1957), [5] commonly known as " El Chapo " ( pronounced [el ˈtʃapo]) and " JGL ", is a Mexican former drug lord and a former leader within the Sinaloa Cartel, an international crime syndicate. He is considered to have been one of the most ...