It is located on the Mediterranean coast between the mouths of the rivers Llobregat and Besòs and is bounded to the west by the Serra de Collserola ridge ().

* 1769 – Father Junípero Serra founds California's first mission, Mission San Diego de Alcalá.

* 1771 – Foundation of the Mission San Antonio de Padua in modern California by the Franciscan friar Junípero Serra.

* June 3 – Gaspar de Portolà and Father Junípero Serra establish Monterey, the presidio of Alta California territory for Spain from 1777 – 1822, United Mexican States 1824 – 1846, until the California Republic.

* July 16 – Father Junípero Serra founds Mission San Diego de Alcalá, the first of the 21 California missions.

The role of Rosina, although written for a coloratura contralto and most frequently sung by a coloratura mezzo-soprano, has, in the past and occasionally in more recent times, been sung in transposition by coloratura sopranos such as Marcella Sembrich, Maria Callas, Roberta Peters, Gianna D ' Angelo, Victoria de los Ángeles, Beverly Sills, Lily Pons, Diana Damrau, Kathleen Battle and Luciana Serra.

Despite only winning numerically the vote in only 1 state ; the relatively electorally small Federal District which holds the capital of Brazil ; the Green Party interestingly came second to Dilma in Amapa, Amazonas, Pernambuco and in Rio de Janeiro in front of Jose Serra.

It is situated on the left bank of the small Besòs River and on the Mediterranean Sea, backed by the Serra de la Marina mountain range.

These occupy the north-western ( Serra de Tramuntana or Tramuntana range ) and eastern thirds of the island.

The highest peak on Majorca is Puig Major ( 1, 445 m ) in the Serra de Tramuntana.

The climate is Mediterranean, with markedly higher precipitation in the Serra de Tramuntana.

Visitador General José de Gálvez engaged the Franciscans, under the leadership of Fray Junípero Serra, to take charge of those outposts on March 12, 1768.

On July 14, 1769 Gálvez sent the expedition of Junípero Serra and Gaspar de Portolà to found a mission at San Diego and presidio at Monterey, respectively.

Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa is a Spanish mission founded in 1772 by Father Junípero Serra in the present-day city of San Luis Obispo, California.

The Mission was founded on June 29, 1776, by Lieutenant José Joaquin Moraga and Father Francisco Palóu ( a companion of Father Junipero Serra ), both members of the de Anza Expedition, which had been charged with bringing Spanish settlers to Alta ( upper ) California, and evangelizing the local Natives, the Ohlone.

One year later Father Serra himself, along with Fathers Amúrrio and Pablo de Mugártegui, took up work on the Mission at San Juan Capistrano ; the contingent, accompanied by eleven soldiers, arrived on October 30 or 31, 1776.

* California Historical Landmark # 113 — Site of " Junípero Serra's Cross " ( the first cross on the hill known as La Loma de la Cruz, or the " Hill of the Cross ") can be found in Grant Park, and was erected by Junípero Serra upon the Mission's founding

He was appointed the second Presidente of the missions in California in 1785, replacing Junípero Serra, and transferred to the Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo.

Monument of Junípero Serra ( with Juaneño Indian boy ) on plaza de San Francisco de Asis in Havana

When the party reached San Diego on July 1, Father Serra stayed behind to start the Mission San Diego de Alcalá, the first of the 21 California missions ( including the nearby Visita de la Presentación, also founded under Serra's leadership ).

Junipero Serra moved to the area that is now Monterey in 1770, and founded Mission San Carlos Borroméo de Carmelo.

Serra was also present at the founding of the Presidio of Santa Barbara on April 21, 1782, but was prevented from locating the mission there because of the animosity of Governor Felipe de Neve.

In 1773, difficulties with Pedro Fages, the military commander, compelled Father Serra to travel to Mexico City to argue before Viceroy Antonio María de Bucareli y Ursúa for the removal of Fages as the Governor of California Nueva.

* Serra de Água, in the Madeira Islands

Its small territory is relatively rich in biodiversity, influenced by its differentiated environmental characteristics between the Fogo volcano ( the Serra de Água de Pau ) and the volcanic complex of Picos.

* Ribeira Chã-the community, with 366 residents, straddles the river-valleys at the foot of the Serra de Água de Pau and was once part of the neighboring parish of Água de Alto ( in the municipality of Vila Franca do Campo )

In the civil parish of Santa Cruz, the Forest Park of Chã da Macela, located in the eastern foothills of Serra de Água de Pau, is a large park with endemic ( laurel, heather, fir ) and introduced species ( cryptomeria, acacias, and pine ).

The population in 2001 was 3501, in an area of 14. 25 km² that extends from the southern coast of São Miguel to the Serra de Água de Pau massif ( a density of 245 inhabitants per km² ).

Ribeira Grande's relief is dominated by the Serra de Água de Pau volcanic massif, and lying within its caldera the crater lake Lagoa do Fogo ( the highest altitude here is Pico da Barrosa at 947m or Monte Escuro, at 890m ), but also extends to the Graminhais Plateau in the eastern border with Nordeste ( Pico do Salto do Cavalo, 954m ).

The principal vicar and governor, Bishop António Alfredo de Santa Catarina Braga, sent out a proclamation on 13 June 1836, to extinguishing the independent parish of Água de Pena and incorporating into grand parish of Santo da Serra e Água de Pena, with its seat in Água de Pena.

This was an arbitrary and capriciousness act: Santo da Serra was a subsidiary of the parish of Machico ( created in 1813 ), but the clergy did not reside in the parish, the annexation of Água de Pena to Santo da Serra, allowed the vicar to have residency in the appropriate parish.

Penned in by the parishes of Santa Cruz and Machico, Água da Pena was limited to the north by Machico and Santo da Serra, to the south by Santa Cruz, east by the Atlantic Ocean and west by Santa Cruz and Santo da Serra.

The bishopric governor, António Alfredo de Santa Catarina, in 1836, annexed the parish of Água de Pena to Santo da Serra, transferring the ecclesiastical seat to the latter, under the parish of Santo da Serra e de Água de Pena.

* Serra de Água, south

Approximately ten tributaries feed this river, whose course ends in the Serra de Água, and much later empties into the Atlantic along the village's coast.

* Serra de Água

Wood was the first of livelihood and income for the early settlers to Madeira, and due to the abundance of vegetation in Serra de Água the sawmills, commercial exportation of wood was very profitable.

The lands are irrigated by numerous ravines, such as the Ribeira da Fajã das Éguas, Ribeira do Poço and Ribeira da Serra de Água ( which are affluentes of the Ribeira da Ribeira Brava, the main waterway in the municipality ).

Serra de Água is situated from the municipal seat of Ribeira Brava, connected by a regional roadway that extends north to Calheta from Funchal.

In 1462 Portuguese explorer Pedro da Cintra mapped the hills surrounding what is now Freetown Harbour, naming the oddly shaped formation Serra Lyoa ( Lion Mountains ).

* November 10 – Pedro Antonio Joaquim Correa da Serra Garção, Portuguese poet ( b. 1724 )

The genus Correa is named after the Portuguese botanist José Correia da Serra ( 1750 – 1823 ), known as Abbé Correa.

Other towns of different Portuguese regions, like Peniche, Cascais, and even Covilhã which is located near the Serra da Estrela mountain range in central inland Portugal, were affected.

Among the escapees was also Jaime Serra, who would help to organize a secret commando group, the Armed Revolutionary Action ( Portuguese: Acção Revolucionária Armada or ARA ).

* Cão da Serra de Aires, Portuguese herding dog

* Cão da Serra da Estrela, Portuguese herding dog

Serra, the capital of the municipality, is to the north of the characteristic Mestre Álvaro mountain which juts out of the coastal lowlands, and which is said to look like a small mountain range or " serra ", in Portuguese, which is where the town and municipality got its name.

* History of Serra ( in Portuguese )

The Campos de Piratininga ( Fields of Piratininga in Portuguese ) is the relatively flat plains territory at the top of the Serra do Mar just off the cities of Santos and São Vicente in the Brazilian state of São Paulo.

They founded the village, known at that time as Santo Antônio de Campo Grande, near the Serra de Maracaju cliffs, at the confluence of two streams named Prosa and Segredo ( Portuguese for " conversation " and " secret ," respectively ), whose courses now coincide with two of the city's most important avenues.

Manguinhos is a small village in the municipality of Serra in Espírito Santo, Brazil, technically known as a neighbourhood ( Bairro in Portuguese ).

It was created from part of Nova Almeida municipality, which today is no longer a municipality but a town ( distrito in Portuguese ) of Serra municipality.

The municipality has some noted landmarks like the Sotto Mayor Palace, the old fishing village of Buarcos, the Serra da Boa Viagem – a small forested mountain by the Atlantic Ocean, several beaches, and its large seaside promenade paved with typical Portuguese pavement.

Covilhã is located in the Centro region, Cova da Beira subregion, in central Portugal ; 300 km ( 186 mi ) Northeast of Lisbon, Portugal's capital ; 100 km ( 62 mi ) East of Coimbra, the regional administrative centre ; and at the bottom of the highest Portuguese mountain range, Serra da Estrela.

The cape is in the Portuguese municipality of Sintra, west of the district of Lisbon, forming the westernmost extent of the Serra de Sintra.

There are three rivers that have their headwaters in the Serra da Estrela: the Mondego, which is the biggest river entirely within Portuguese territory ; and the Zêzere, which is a tributary to the Tagus ; a tributary of the Mondego, the Alva also has its headwaters in the range.

It has its source in Serra da Estrela, the highest mountain range in mainland Portugal ( i. e. except the Portuguese islands ).

Known locally as the " Portuguese Switzerland " due to its landscape that includes a principal settlement nestled in the mountains of the Serra da Estrela Natural Park.

The name Itapecerica is believed to come from the Tupi language for slippery stone, and da Serra means of the Mountains in Portuguese.

It borders with Portugal on the west in the area of the Portuguese Serra da Malcata Natural Reserve.

The area is known for its caves that attract many tourists and is home of the Portuguese indigenous dog breed, the Cão da Serra de Aires.

In the same year, Manuel da Nóbrega, a Portuguese Jesuit, sent 13 Jesuits, Anchieta among them, to climb the fearsome Serra do Mar to a plateau which the Indians had named Piratininga, along the Tietê river, where the Jesuits established a small missionary settlement.

The Parque da Cascata ( meaning Waterfall Park in Portuguese ) is the popular name of Parque Florestal Municipal de Sete Lagoas located at Serra Santa Helena, just 3 km ( 2 mi ) from downtown Sete Lagoas, Minas Gerais, Brazil.

São Caetano do Sul is located on a plateau that is part of the Serra do Mar ( Portuguese for " Sea Range "), part of the vast region known as the Brazilian Highlands, with an average elevation of around 800 metres ( 2, 625 ft ) above sea level-though at a distance of only about from the Atlantic Ocean.