Chaparral is a shrubland or heathland plant community found primarily in the U. S. state of California and in the northern portion of the Baja California peninsula, Mexico.

The Chaparral is a coastal biome with hot, dry summers and mild, rainy winters.

* May 25 – Indianapolis 500: Johnny Rutherford wins for a third time in car owner Jim Hall's revolutionary ground effect Chaparral car ; the victory is Hall's second as an owner.

It is also home to the elementary schools Chaparral, Round Meadow, Lupin Hill, and Bay Laurel.

It is located in the Chaparral biome.

Chaparral is a census-designated place ( CDP ) in Doña Ana County, New Mexico, United States.

A portion of Chaparral is also in Otero County, New Mexico, United States.

While there is some employment within Chaparral, Chaparral is primarily a bedroom community for the neighboring city of El Paso, Texas and the neighboring military installations of White Sands Missile Range and Fort Bliss.

Chaparral is located at ( 32. 039072 ,-106. 429630 ) and is geographically isolated from the rest of Doña Ana County, New Mexico due to its location on the east side of the Franklin Mountains.

In Chaparral it is known as War Highway ( which refers to its construction during World War II as a military access road ) and connects to Martin Luther King Boulevard ( Texas Farm-to-Market Road 3255 ) in El Paso.

This highway connects Chaparral to Anthony, New Mexico and Interstate 10, which is approximately 10 miles to the west through the Anthony Gap.

In both Anthony and Chaparral it is known as O ' Hara Road.

Here is a small but nationally renowned amusement park called High Chaparral offering Wild West experiences.

Gerdau Ameristeel, formerly Chaparral Steel, a large steel factory is adjacent to TXI's cement plant.

It is the Chaparral Stagecoach Station and restaurant.

Chaparral is a common feature of the Transverse Ranges.

The ecology of California is diverse: it is considered to span six biogeographic provinces or ecoregions: " Coastal Chaparral Forest and Shrub ", " Dry Steppe ", " Coastal Steppe, Mixed Forest, and Redwood Forest ", " Sierran Steppe / Mixed Forest / Coniferous Forest ", " Coastal Range Open Woodland / Shrub / Coniferous Forest / Meadow ", and " American Semi-Desert and Desert ".

The Stanford Chaparral ( also known as the Chappie ) is a humor magazine published by students of Stanford University since 1899.

The Chaparral is nationally distributed.

Another similar car is the Chaparral 2C.

In 2004, Plac Centralny, Nowa Huta's central square which once was home to a giant statue of Lenin-on display at High Chaparral Museum in Hillerstorp, Sweden, was renamed Ronald Reagan Central Square ( Plac Centralny im.

Chaparral is also home to the student run comedy improv troupe, Home IMPROVment, which has run for 6 seasons as of 2012 and hosts multiple shows each per year.

Chaparral is home of the Firebird Robotics Team.

He used the ground-effect on race cars 10 years before Chaparral and his # 53 entry from " Autombiles Deutsch et Bonnet " won the " Index of Performance " trophy at the 1961 24 Hours of Le Mans.

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There are several lake communities in the county ( Linn Valley Lakes, Lake Chaparral ...), which are quick getaways for city dwellers who spend their weekends or holidays there.

* May-David Dortort appoints himself executive producer of Bonanza, a move which takes him out of the day-to-day running of the show but allows him to spend his efforts on another NBC western, The High Chaparral.

Scarfiotti and Bandini drove a 2-litre Ferrari to second place in the 1966 running of the 1, 000 kilometre Nürburgring in which first place went to Phil Hill and Joakim Bonnier driving a 5. 4-litre Chevrolet-powered Chaparral.

Three weeks after his win at Epsom, High Chaparral reappeared in the Irish Derby at the Curragh, for which he started 1 / 3 favourite.

Chaparral has three concert choirs, a Mixed Jazz group ( a co-ed group which performs jazz standards ) and a Nothing But Treble group ( an all-girls group ).

In 2009, Firebird Robotics won the Teacher of the Year Award at the Arizona Regional, which recognized Chaparral guidance counselor Chris Perry's work with the team.

VADS was intended to operate in concert with the MIM-72 Chaparral, which combined the AIM-9 Sidewinder missile with a more heavily modified version of the M113 chassis.

Along with the Princeton Tiger Magazine, the Stanford Chaparral, and the Harvard Lampoon, among many college humor magazines, The Record created a wide-ranging, absurdist style of comedy which mixed high-culture references with material dealing with the eternal topics of schoolwork, alcohol, sex ( or lack thereof ).

The High Chaparral is a Western-themed television series starring Leif Erickson and Cameron Mitchell which aired on NBC from 1967 to 1971.

The school opened its doors in September 1973 along with Chaparral High School, which brought the total number of major high schools in the Las Vegas Valley to eight, including Bishop Gorman, a private Catholic high school.

Every year, beginning in 1974, Eldorado and Chaparral holds its rivalry game, in which the winner gets possession of a bronzed cleat once owned by former Los Angeles Rams star Merlin Olsen.

Eldorado was one time part of a five-team Sunrise Division, which included Basic, Las Vegas, Rancho and Western ; while the Sunset Division schools were Valley, Chaparral, Gorman, Clark and Bonanza.

Chaparral Cars was a United States automobile racing team which built race cars from 1963 through 1970.