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Castro Valley, about 1970Before the arrival of European settlers the area was settled by the Chocheño ( also spelled Chochenyo or Chocenyo ) subdivision of the Ohlone Native Americans.

Some of his descendants still live in the area of Castro Ranch Road.

Upon Mexico's independence from Spain, church properties were secularized and in 1823, the area became part of a large grant to an ex-soldier stationed at the San Francisco Presidio, Francisco María Castro.

Castroville was established in 1844 by Henri Castro, an empresario of the Republic of Texas, who brought several dozen European families to the area from Alsace and adjoining Baden to populate his land grant along the Medina River 20 miles west of San Antonio.

That was the source of Cuban reports that briefly lured Fidel Castro away from the Bay of Pigs battlefront area.

By then, both Fidel Castro and José Ramón Fernández had re-located to that battlefront area.

The U. S. Department of Defense report even suggested covertly paying a person in the Castro government to attack the United States: " The only area remaining for consideration then would be to bribe one of Castro's subordinate commanders to initiate an attack on United States Navy | U. S. Navy base at Guantanamo.

The urban area of Vigo is built over both a hill-fort ( Castro ) and a Roman settlement.

The area was dominated by two ethnic communities: the Zoelae, with their seat in Castro de Avelãs, and a Lusitanian civitas under the stewardship of the Baniense in the southern part of the district.

The early traders from Las Pinas such as the " Eusebio clan " and from Manila the " Lopez clan " are considered the earliest to have established farming and business establishment in the area followed by the Kalaws, Clemente and De Castro clan who are all related to each other.

Xylokastro ( Greek: Ξυλόκαστρο, derived from Solo Castro as the area was designated on old maps De Wit, 1680 ) is a town and a former municipality in Corinthia, Peloponnese, Greece.

The ornate interior of the theater was designed by Nestor Castro, the art director for the Libman-Spanjer Corporation, which designed the interiors of many theaters in the Times Square area.

Rio Branco-Plácido de Castro International Airport is away on the BR-364 highway in the rural area.

Sedimentary layers laid down between 435 and 408 Ma ( Silurian epoch ) were deformed and metamorphosed into schists, greywackes and quartzites ( such as in the area of Castro Laboreiro ).

For the Winchat ( Saxicola rubetra ), the area of Mourela is the unique nesting ground in Portugal, while the Red-backed Shrike and Yellowhammer is limited to Castro Lombeiro plateau and northern corners of the Park.

South of the park is a hillside area known as " Dolores Heights ," while The Castro neighborhood is located a short distance to the west.

Many notable noblemen passed through this area, including the Infante John ( son of Peter I of Portugal and Inês de Castro ), but it was the Morais Sarmento family that influenced the growth of the settlement.

The area of the beach was a part of the Rancho Aptos grant to Rafael Castro in 1833.

It was located in an area where the people from a Castro settlement founded a Roman-Lusitanian villa.

Ferdinand was entrusted with the fortresses, and control was given to Álvaro Pérez de Castro, with the area occupied by troops from the military orders of Santiago and Calatrava.

He also gave him the town of Castro with the title of Duke of Castro, granting him possession of lands from the Thyrrenian Sea to the Lake of Bolsena, as well as the area of Ronciglione and many other smaller fiefdoms.

Mrs. Monte Tyson, chairman, says the work of 100 artists well known in the Delaware Valley area will be included in the exhibition and sale.

Adjoining the Cumberland Plateau region on the southeast is the Appalachian Valley ( locally known as Coosa Valley ) region, which is the southern extremity of the Appalachian Mountains, and occupies an area within the state of about.

Between the Cotton Belt and the Tennessee Valley is the mineral region, the Old Land area — a region of resistant rocks — whose soils, also derived from weathering in silu, are of varied fertility, the best coming from the granites, sandstones and limestones, the poorest from the gneisses, schists and slates.

In between lies Strathmore, a derivation of the Gaelic for the Great Valley, which is a fertile agricultural area noted for the growing of potatoes, soft fruit and the raising of Angus cattle.

Aberdare () is an industrial town in the Cynon Valley area of Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales, at the confluence of the Rivers Dare ( Dâr ) and Cynon.

The Okanagan area is one of several wine-growing regions in Canada and also produces ciders ; other wine regions in British Columbia include the Cowichan Valley on Vancouver Island, and the Fraser Valley.

In 1923 she bought a former deer park and vast sheep farm in the Troutbeck Valley called Troutbeck Park Farm, restoring its land, its thousands of Herdwick sheep, and establishing her as one of the major Herdwick sheep farmers in the area.

* At Consett the closure of the British Steel works in 1980 marked the end of steel production in the Derwent Valley and the decline of the area.

An extensive canal system exists within the Imperial Valley in the Southern California desert to provide irrigation to agriculture within the area.

The dry bed of the Hakra River runs through the area, along which many settlements of the Indus Valley Civilization have been found.

Important manufacturing centres in the region include Pictou County, Truro, the Annapolis Valley and the South Shore, and the Strait of Canso area in Nova Scotia, as well as Summerside in Prince Edward Island, and the Miramichi area, the North Shore and the upper Saint John River valley of New Brunswick.

The Halifax metropolitan area has come to dominate peninsular Nova Scotia as a retail and service centre, but that province's industries were spread out from the coal and steel industries of industrial Cape Breton and Pictou counties, the mixed farming of the North Shore and Annapolis Valley, and the fishing industry was primarily focused on the South Shore and Eastern Shore.

Another area in the region with smatterings of coinciding fiscal and social conservatism is the Annapolis Valley of Nova Scotia.

The quarry and tombs associated with it are north, not west of the main city and west only of the merchant area in the Tyropoeon Valley, which was enclosed by the Second Wall.

Freeway opponents fear that upgrading Highway 84 will encourage more people to live in southern Alameda County ( where housing is more affordable ) and commute to jobs in the mid-Peninsula area ( where businesses wish to be located in order to be close to Silicon Valley ), thus increasing traffic in their neighborhoods to the south and west of U. S. 101.

Dayton is situated within the Miami Valley region of Ohio just north of the Cincinnati – Northern Kentucky metropolitan area.

Approximately two million years ago, the land between the Rift Valley and the Mediterranean Sea rose to such an extent that the ocean could no longer flood the area.

They lived in a rustic, one-room cabin in Locust Ridge, just north of the Greenbrier Valley, in the Great Smoky Mountains in Sevier County, a predominantly Pentecostal area.

The notable exception to this was when land claims by the Connecticut-based owners of the Susquehanna Company, who had been granted titles to land claimed by Connecticut in the Wyoming Valley, in an area that is now Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.

Despite covering only about 5. 5 % of the total area of Egypt, the Nile Valley and Nile Delta are the most important regions, being the country's only cultivable regions and supporting about 99 % of the population.

After experiencing problems with mold contamination in her own home in the Conejo Valley, Brockovich became a prominent activist and educator in this area as well.

In August 2012, a swarm of earthquakes shook Southern California's Imperial Valley, showing the most recorded activity in the area since the 1970s.