Two parallel mountain ranges cross El Salvador to the west with a central plateau between them and a narrow coastal plain hugging the Pacific.

El Niño episodes are defined as sustained warming of the central and eastern tropical Pacific Ocean.

Meanwhile, significantly wetter winters are present in northwest Mexico and the southwest United States including central and southern California, while both cooler and wetter than average winters in northeast Mexico and the southeast United States ( including the Tidewater region of Virginia ) occur during the El Niño phase of the oscillation.

However, in the last two decades non-traditional El Niños were observed, in which the usual place of the temperature anomaly ( Nino 1 and 2 ) is not affected, but an anomaly arises in the central Pacific ( Nino 3. 4 ).

The first recorded El Niño that originated in the central Pacific and moved toward the east was in 1986.

* 2010: The Congo River is a central element in the 2010 novel by Mario Vargas Llosa, El sueño del celta ( The Dream of the Celt ), a fictionalisation of episodes in the life of the Irishman Roger Casement.

The El Capitan pluton intruded the valley, forming most of the granitic rock that makes up much of the central part of the valley, including Cathedral Rocks, Three Brothers, and El Capitan.

It is also known as El Camino Real ( The Royal Road ) where its route along the southern and central California coast approximates the old trail which linked the Spanish missions, pueblos, and presidios.

El Dorado is located in the West Gulf Coastal Plain: In Arkansas, the West Gulf Coastal Plain covers the southeastern and south central portions of the state along the border of Louisiana.

El Dorado is a city situated along the Walnut River in the central part of Butler County, located in south-central Kansas, in the Central United States.

Historical examples include the oldest known Sumerian cities of Mesopotamia and Ur, the Phoenician cities of Canaan ( such as Tyre and Sidon ), the Berber city-states of the Garamantes, the city-states of ancient Greece ( the poleis such as Athens, Sparta, Thebes, and Corinth ), the Roman Republic which grew from a city-state into a great power, the Maya of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica ( including sites such as Chichen Itza, Tikal, Palenque and El Mirador ), the central Asian cities along the Silk Road, Venice, Croatian city-state of Ragusa ( Dubrovnik ) and many others.

Midland was originally established in June 1881 as Midway Station, on the Texas and Pacific Railway ; it earned its name because of its central location between Fort Worth and El Paso.

The newspaper has been characterized as propaganda for the New Progressive Party since El Vocero receives funds from the NPP-controlled central government.

The city of Aguascalientes is made up of four traditional neighborhoods, all of which grew up around the central Plaza de la Patria: Guadalupe, San Marcos, El Encino and La Estacion.

El Encino or La Triana, head for the Encino gardens with their tile-decorated central fountain is full of tranquility.

The basilica of San Lorenzo el Real, the central building in the El Escorial complex, was originally designed, like most of the late Gothic cathedrals of western Europe, to take the form of a Latin cross.

During the 1980s and 1990s, a network of buoys in the central and eastern tropical Pacific ocean helped study the El Niño-Southern Oscillation.

The Conjunto de la Secretaría de Cultura ( Secretary of Culture Complex ) is a series of buildings around a central plaza that contains a Juan Soriano sculpture by the nameof “ El Toro .” The three main buildings are the Edificio de Talleres which is for workshops on various artistic disciplines, the Casa de la Cultura Alfonso Michel or Edificio Central, which hosts various exhibitions along with a permanent collection of works by Alfonso Michel and Museo de las Culturas de Occidente María Ahumada de Gómez ( María Ahumada de Gómez Museum of Western Cultures. The Ahumada Museum has a large collection of archeological pieces from the region.

The larger and more southwesterly Toiyabe National Forest is located generally in central, western, and southern Nevada and eastern California, in parts of Nye, Lander, Mineral, Lyon, Eureka, Washoe, Douglas, and Clark counties and Carson City in Nevada, and Mono, Alpine, Sierra, Nevada, Lassen, and El Dorado counties in California.

In 2010, Robert Dull, John Southon and colleagues presented evidence suggesting a link between the Tierra Blanca Joven ( TBJ ) eruption of the Ilopango caldera in central El Salvador and the AD 536 event.

El Paso International Airport is a public airport located four miles ( 6 km ) northeast of the central business district ( CBD ) of the City of El Paso, in El Paso County, Texas, USA.

Further south it occurs in southwest Guatemala and from northern El Salvador and central Honduras to northern Nicaragua.

Ronald Reagan, who had assumed the American presidency in January 1981, accused the Sandinistas of importing Cuban-style socialism and aiding leftist guerrillas in El Salvador.

* 1981 – El Mozote massacre: Armed forces in El Salvador kill an estimated 900 civilians in an anti-guerrilla campaign during the Salvadoran Civil War.

* 1981 – El Hadji Diouf, Senegalese footballer

Upon assuming office in 1981, U. S. President Ronald Reagan condemned the FSLN for joining with Cuba in supporting Marxist revolutionary movements in other Latin American countries such as El Salvador.

The next album, El Loco, was released in October 1981, featuring three singles (" Tube Snake Boogie ", " Pearl Necklace ", and " Leila ").

* El Loco ( 1981 )

The initially poorly trained Salvadoran Armed Forces ( ESAF ) also engaged in repression and indiscriminate killings, the most notorious of which was the El Mozote massacre in December 1981.

* 1981: El derecho de nacer as María Elena

* Ostia appears briefly towards the end of the Roman Empire section of the 1981 comedy film History of the World, Part I, where the main characters board a galleon ( bearing the El Al logo ) bound for Judaea.

Also in the category of Spanish pop art is the " Chronicle Team " ( El Equipo Crónica ), which existed in Valencia between 1964 and 1981, formed by the artists Manolo Valdés and Rafael Solbes.

) ( 1974 ), Jamás ( Never ) ( 1975 ), El Amor de mi Vida ( The Love of my Life ) ( 1978 ), Perdóname ( Forgive me ) ( 1981 ), the latter being his most successful hit and other as Donde estés, con quien estés, Amor de mujer ( 1984 ) and the classic " Amor Mío, ¿ Qué Me Has Hecho?

The War Powers Resolution was disregarded by President Reagan in 1981 by sending military to El Salvador, by President Clinton in 1999, during the bombing campaign in Kosovo, and by President Obama in 2011, when he did not seek congressional approval for the attack on Libyan forces, arguing that the Resolution did not apply to that action.

Other of her films are El Ministro y yo ( 1975 ), with Cantinflas, Más negro que la noche ( 1976 ), La Ilegal ( 1979 ), Los Renglones Torcidos de Dios ( 1981 ), and El Maleficio ( 1985 ).

In 1981 Kale's new lineup put out Now & Not Then on the El Macombo label.

Examples of this argument being used often include the 1981 April Fool's Day Coup in Thailand and the El Tejerazo coup in Spain when King Bhumibol and King Juan Carlos I respectively stepped in to restore democracy in their countries.

In 1981 he went to Honduras to train Contras who were fighting Nicaragua's Sandinista government, which was supported by Cuba and the Soviet Union ; the Army of El Salvador ; and the Honduras death squads.

El Loco is the seventh studio album by American blues rock band ZZ Top, released in 1981 ( see 1981 in music ).

The arrival of the Morales family was a part of a much wider migration to the region, with many Bolivians hoping to set up farms where they could earn a living growing coca, the plant from which cocaine is made, and was experiencing a steady rise in price and which could be cultivated up to four times a year ; in 1981 El Chapare's population was 40, 000 but by 1988 it had risen to 215, 000.

* El Mar Y Tu Ediciones Huracan, 1981 ; ISBN 0-940238-46-2

*" Leila " ( song ), 1981 song by American rock band ZZ Top, from their album El Loco

Bonner is best known as one of two journalists ( the other was Alma Guillermoprieto of The Washington Post ) who broke the story of the El Mozote massacre, in which some 900 villagers at El Mozote, El Salvador, were slaughtered by the Salvadoran army in December 1981.