The rainforest was also greatly destroyed from the forest fires of 1997 to 1998, which were started by the locals to clear the forests for crops and perpetuated by an exceptionally dry El Niño season during that period.

The economic crisis was aggravated in 1982 and 1983 by drastic climatic changes, bringing severe drought as well as flooding, precipitated by the appearance of the unusually warm ocean current known as " El Niño ".

The crisis was precipitated by a number of external shocks, including the El Niño weather phenomenon in 1997, a sharp drop in global oil prices in 1997-98, and international emerging market instability in 1997-98.

Coffee production was hit particularly hard ; 3 % of the harvest was lost in addition to 8. 2 % that was lost earlier in the year due to El Niño.

El Niño – Southern Oscillation ( ENSO ), or El Niño / La Niña – Southern Oscillation, is a quasiperiodic climate pattern that occurs across the tropical Pacific Ocean roughly every five years.

The Southern Oscillation refers to variations in the temperature of the surface of the tropical eastern Pacific Ocean ( warming and cooling known as El Niño and La Niña respectively ) and in air surface pressure in the tropical western Pacific.

The two variations are coupled: the warm oceanic phase, El Niño, accompanies high air surface pressure in the western Pacific, while the cold phase, La Niña, accompanies low air surface pressure in the western Pacific.

The extremes of this climate pattern's oscillations, El Niño and La Niña, cause extreme weather ( such as floods and droughts ) in many regions of the world.

In popular usage, the El Niño – Southern Oscillation is often called just " El Niño ".

El Niño is Spanish for " the little boy " and refers to the Christ child, because periodic warming in the Pacific near South America is usually noticed around Christmas.

El Niño is defined by prolonged differences in the Pacific ocean Sea surface temperatures when compared with the average value.

When this warming or cooling occurs for only seven to nine months, it is classified as El Niño / La Niña " conditions "; when it occurs for more than that period, it is classified as El Niño / La Niña " episodes ".

The first signs of an El Niño are:

When El Niño conditions last for many months, extensive ocean warming and the reduction in Easterly Trade winds limits upwelling of cold nutrient-rich deep water and its economic impact to local fishing for an international market can be serious.

Although its causes are still being investigated, El Niño events begin when trade winds, part of the Walker circulation, falter for many months.

The weakening of the winds can also create twin cyclones, another sign of a future El Niño.

But whether the murder of El Benefactor in Ciudad Trujillo means freedom for the people of the Caribbean fiefdom is a question that cannot now be answered.

Douglas M. Pratt, president of the PTC, who attended the meeting, said the transit company is reviewing the work on the El.

From International Airport in Los Angeles to International Airport in Houston, as the great four-jet Boeing 707 flies, is a routine five hours and 25 minutes, including stopovers at Phoenix, El Paso, and San Antonio.

The undisputed master of this music is El Hadj M ' Hamed El Anka.

In the late 2nd century CE floor mosaic from El Djem, Roman Thysdrus, he is identifiable as Apollo Helios by his effulgent halo, though now even a god's divine nakedness is concealed by his cloak, a mark of increasing conventions of modesty in the later Empire.

It was the mutual bond and obligation between monarch and subjects, whereby subjects are called his liege subjects, because they are bound to obey and serve him ; and he is called their liege lord, because he should maintain and defend them ( Ex parte Anderson ( 1861 ) 3 El & El 487 ; 121 ER 525 ; China Navigation Co v Attorney-General ( 1932 ) 48 TLR 375 ; Attorney-General v Nissan 1 All ER 629 ; Oppenheimer v Cattermole 3 All ER 1106 ).

Natural allegiance and obedience is an incident inseparable to every subject, for parte Anderson ( 1861 ) 3 El & El 487 ; 121 ER 525 ).

He visited the ruins of Babylon and the subterranean secret of Memphis and spent ten years alone in the great southern desert of Arabia — the Roba El Khaliyeh or " Empty Space " of the ancients — and " Dahna " or " Crimson " desert of the modern Arabs, which is held to be inhabited by protective evil spirits and monsters of death.

Countries where ASL or a derivative of ASL is the national or a widespread language include Barbados, Belize, Benin, Bolivia, Botswana ( with BSL ), Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Canada, the Central African Republic, Chad, Côte d ' Ivoire, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Kenya ( minority use ), Liberia, Madagascar ( minority use ), Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Philippines ( L2 use ), Puerto Rico, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Trinidad and Tobago, Togo, and Zimbabwe ( with ZSL ).

Park Güell ( ) is a garden complex with architectural elements situated on the hill of El Carmel in the Gràcia district of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.

* 1895 – American Frontier murderer and outlaw, John Wesley Hardin, is killed by an off-duty policeman in a saloon in El Paso, Texas.

* 1881 – The Four Dead in Five Seconds Gunfight is fought in El Paso, Texas.

While BASE jumps had been made prior to that time, the El Capitan activity was the effective birth of what is now called BASE jumping.

The museum is one of the best galleries in south west France and has paintings by Degas, El Greco, Botticelli and Goya among others.

* Ivan, one of the protagonists of the historical novel by the Cuban writer Leonardo Padura Fuentes, El hombre que amaba a los perros ( The Man Who Loved Dogs ), is the editor of a university journal of veterinary medicine, who manages to make a living during the Special Period in Cuba by helping people take care of their dogs.

The Second Battle of El Alamein reversed German ambitions in North Africa, and is often cited as one of the turning points of the Second World War.

This union consisted of the present day nations of Guatemala ( which included the former state of Los Altos ), El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica ( which included a region which is now part of Panama, and the Guanacaste Province which was once part of Nicaragua ), and Soconusco, a portion of the modern Mexican state of Chiapas.

E is currently held in El Escorial and contains the largest number of songs ( 406 Cantigas, plus the Introduction and the Prologue ); it contains 41 carefully detailed miniatures and many illuminated letters.

An entire episode of The X-Files series, El Mundo Gira, is devoted to the chupacabras.

alt = An adult cane toad with dark colouration, as found in El Salvador: The parotoid gland is prominently displayed on the side of the head.

Carlos Alberto Valderrama Palacio (; born September 2, 1961 in Santa Marta, Colombia ), also known as El Pibe (" The Kid ") is a former Colombian football player.

China's Qing Dynasty bureaucracy, which devoted extensive attention to minimizing famines, is credited with averting a series of famines following El Niño-Southern Oscillation-linked droughts and floods.

" Father Lasuén is credited for having brought the concept to life in 1798 when he successfully argued that filling in the " spaces " along El Camino Real with additional outposts would provide much-needed rest stops, where travelers could take lodging in relative safety and comfort.

El Monte is credited with being the birthplace of TV variety shows.

When the German band Kraftwerk issued “ Man Machine ” ( 1978 ), a record whose electronic sound was echoed in the simple geometric shapes and striking red, black and white album cover the design credited to El Lissiztky, they were also tapping into a larger retrofuturist vision.

He was credited under the shortened name Siddig El Fadil until October 1995, three seasons into his run on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, when he changed his stage name to the easier to pronounce ( for English speakers ) Alexander Siddig.

Although performed by Flo Sandon's, Silvana Mangano was credited on the label of the recording of " El Negro Zumbon ", known as " Anna " in the U. S. A., which is from the soundtrack of the film Anna ( 1951 ) and was a hit song in 1953.

According to El Cholo restaurant history, waitress Carmen Rocha is credited with making nachos in San Antonio, Texas before introducing the dish to Los Angeles at El Cholo Mexican restaurant in 1959.

Ramón Gómez Valdés de Castillo ( September 2, 1923 – August 9, 1988 ), often credited as Ramón Valdéz, was a Mexican actor of film and television best known for his portrayal of Don Ramón in the popular sitcom El Chavo del Ocho.

He was also credited as executive producer on the DreamWorks animated films The Prince of Egypt ( 1998 ), The Road to El Dorado and Joseph: King of Dreams ( both in 2000 ) and Shrek in 2001.

Some claim that the song's structure actually came from Herminio " El Diablo " García Wilson, who could be credited as a co-composer.

Adel Imam ( sometimes credited as: Adel Emam ), (), born May 17, 1940 in El Mansoura ( المنصورة ), is a popular Egyptian movie and stage actor.

Changes are such that copyright for the song in " Simplemente " is credited to Rodrigo González and Alejandro Lora, veteran leader, vocalist and bass player of El Tri.

Nour El-Sherif is sometimes credited as Nour El Cherif, Nour El-Cherif or Nour Al-Sharif.

She was born as: Hanan Hassan Muhammad Abd El Karim ( Arabic: < big > حنان حسن محمد عبد الكريم </ big >), and is sometimes credited as Hanane Turk and Hanan Turk.

They lived the last years of their lives as celebrities in La estancia El Cardal ( El Cardal Ranch ), the breeding establishment of the man most credited for developing the crioulo breed, Dr. Emilio Solanet.

While the government was swift and brutal in attempting to suppress the uprising, this movement is today credited for being the first seeds of the revolution that enabled the Tunisians to remove Zine El Abidine Ben Ali | from power and ignited the Arab spring in the rest of North Afirca and the Middle East and beyond.

Swiss bigband leader, playboy, club owner and hotelier Teddy Stauffer ( 1909-1991 ), the man who is credited with turning Acapulco into a world class resort ,( and for some time managed the El Mirador Hotel at La Quebrada ) actually turned the boys, who were diving from the cliffs there, into stars, some ten years later.

is credited with modernizing the city of El Rosario by implementing the construction of concrete streets and a municipal soccer stadium.

ISBN-13: 978-0970924063 ( Foto credited to " El Imparcial ", 1939 )