Being equidistant from mountain and sea, it experiences similar monsoon pattern with Northeast monsoon and Southwest monsoon, with the former providing more rain during October to December.

To the north of Lagos is the road to Silves, the first capital of Algarve, Monchique ( spa town / mountain ), Milfontes, a coastal town and port / harbour of the city of Sines, that winds through the scenic protected landscape of the Southwest Natural Park ( Costa Sudoeste Alentejana e Vicentina ).

The Southwest Mountains of Virginia are a mountain range centered around Charlottesville, parallel to and geologically associated with the Blue Ridge Mountains, which lie about 30 miles ( 50 km ) to the west.

Long thought to be divergent from other tri-color kingsnakes and milksnakes, Pyron & Bubrink demonstrated the phylogenetic distinction of this species and its closer relationship to the mountain kingsnakes of the Southwest than to milksnakes.

The second ascent was not until 1946, when a group from the Harvard Mountaineering Club including noted mountain historian Dee Molenaar climbed the Southwest Ridge route.

Lake Clark has been called " the essence of Alaska ", for it concentrates in a relatively small area of the Alaska Peninsula, Southwest of Anchorage, a variety of features not found together in any of the other Alaska Parks: the junction of three mountain ranges, ( the Alaska Range from the North, the Aleutian Range from the South, and the park's own rugged Chigmit Mountains ), two active volcanoes ( Iliamna and Redoubt ), a coastline with rainforests on the East ( similar to South East Alaska ), a plateau with tundra on the West ( similar to Arctic Alaska ), and turquoise lakes.

The city is located within a valley at the confluence of the Pech River and Kunar River between two mountain ridgelines running along both sides of the valley from Northeast to Southwest.

The term cacomistle is from the Nahuatl language ( tlahcomiztli ) and means " half cat " or " half mountain lion "; it is sometimes also used to refer to the ringtail, Bassariscus astutus, a similar species that inhabits arid northern Mexico and the American Southwest.

The Daxue Mountains () are a great mountain range in the western part of Sichuan province in Southwest China.

However, a ridge splits off at a level area, known as Devil's Acre, midway along the mountain, rising to a ) summit unofficially known as Southwest Hunter Mountain.

On the other side of the mountain, the West Virginia-based Fenwick Lumber Company logged Hunter and Southwest Hunter so thoroughly between 1903 and 1917 that it is hard to find virgin forest anywhere in the lands they once owned.

Located in Southwest North Carolina near the South Carolina border, it is ideally situated two hours east of the Appalachian mountain range, as well as just three and one half hours from the Atlantic coast.

The klopotec is most frequently heard in the transnational region from Southwest Styria ( e. g., the Sausal mountain range and the Weinstraße ) to Eastern Slovenia: Slovenske gorice, Haloze and Prlekija ( of which it is a symbol ), less frequently in Lower Carniola and White Carniola.

The region covers 83, 000 square kilometres at an average elevation of 4, 800 meters, stretches in a meridional ( east-west ) direction between the Tanggula and Kunlun mountain chains in the border areas of Southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, Northwest China's Qinghai Province and the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.

Thomas L. " Pegleg " Smith ( October 10, 1801 – 1866 ) was a mountain man who, serving as a guide for many early expeditions into the American Southwest, helped explore parts of present-day New Mexico.

Raichberg transmitter is a broadcast facility for various FM radio and television programs operated by the Südwestrundfunk ( SWR, " Southwest Broadcasting ") on the Raichberg mountain ( elevation 956 metre ) at Albstadt, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

The fretted dulcimer — often called the " Appalachian " or " mountain " dulcimer due to its popularity in the region — emerged in Southwest Pennsylvania and Northwest Virginia in the 19th century.

Parts of the Atlas Mountains in North Africa, the Lebanon and Anti-Lebanon ranges of Syria, Israel and Lebanon, the Jebel Akhdar ( Oman ) in Oman, parts of the Sierra Nevada and neighboring ranges in the United States ' Southwest, have shallow aquifers that are exploited for their water.

Housing is as diverse with ranges from the $ 100K's in the inner city to the $ 1M + on the Southwest side.

In particular, the Merriam kangaroo rat ranges through Southern California, Utah, Southwest New Mexico, Arizona, northern Mexico and Hawaii and live in areas of low rainfall and humidity, and high summer temperature and evaporation rates.

the 2, the San Kiang ( three rivers ) in the ( then ) Southwest ; ;

According to the Southwest Consortium for Environmental Research and Policy ( SCERP ), all streams and rivers in the border region have been ecologically devastated as a consequence of the maquila industry.

* Southwest Australia rivers and streams ( Australia )

Erosion has created the " Miramichi River valley " ( also shortened to just " Miramichi Valley "), through which the Northwest and Southwest Miramichi rivers flow.

Several names were considered, including Dayton State University, Southwest Ohio State University, Shawnee University, Four Rivers University ( after the four nearby rivers: the Great Miami, the Mad, the Stillwater, and Wolf Creek ), and Mad River University.

With the establishment of the minimum flow of the upper and middle river by the Southwest Florida Water Management District in 2007 and its supporting Recovery Strategy, the City of Tampa and the District in partnership are implementing measures and projects to achieve the required flow in the lower river, while preserving the pristine nature of the middle and upper rivers.

The southern K Street runs between the Potomac and Anacostia rivers, crossing the Southwest and Southeast quadrants ( as K Street SW and K Street SE, respectively ).

In between, M-40 runs through mixed agricultural and forest lands and along lakes and rivers through Southwest Michigan.

* the Bellevue neighborhood occupies all of the Southwest land between South Capitol Street ( to the east ) and the Anacostia and Potomac rivers ( to the west and north ).

He taught history and geography in the Baltimore City Public Schools from 1966 to 1978, most notably at Baltimore City College and the now closed Southwest Senior High School.

When Mexico rejected American annexation of Texas, Polk led the nation to a sweeping victory in the Mexican-American War, which gave the United States most of its present Southwest.

Mav of Sol Camp and MC Magic are the most successful rappers to come out to the Southwest region.

It is most prominent in Southwest France in regions like Bordeaux, Bergerac and Cahors where it is often blended with Malbec.

Southwest of Gruyères, the municipality comprises most of the catchment area of the brook Albeuve, which originates on the flanks of mount Moléson.

Although they had lived peaceably with most Americans in the New Mexico Territory up to about 1860, the Chiricahua became increasingly hostile to American encroachment in the Southwest after a number of provocations had occurred between them.

The most highly developed Native communities of the Southwest were large villages or pueblos at the top of the mesas, rocky tablelands typical to the region.

Valparaíso (, ) is a city and commune of Chile, center of its third largest conurbation ( Greater Valparaíso ), is located 69. 5 miles northwest of Santiago and one of the country's most important seaports ; it is an increasingly important cultural center in the Southwest Pacific hemisphere.

The most notable were the SportsChannel networks, which went on the air in 1976 with the original SportsChannel ( now MSG Plus ) and later branched out into Chicago and Florida ; Prime Network, which went on the air in 1983 with the charter member being Home Sports and Entertainment ( now FSN Southwest ) and later branched out onto the West Coast as " Prime Sports "; and SportSouth, the RSN operated by Turner Broadcasting.

In the early 1990s, most of the colleges in the Division I Football Bowl Subdivision ( FBS ), then known as Division I-A, were members of the College Football Association ; this included members of the Big Eight and Southwest Conferences.

TCU had been a member of the Southwest Conference, one of the original constituent conferences that were incorporated into what became the Big 12 and has long and historical rivalries with several Big 12 schools, the most notable of which is with Baylor, a rivalry dating back to 1899 — making it one of the longest ongoing series in the nation.

The county's location directly adjacent to both the Roanoke and the Blacksburg-Christiansburg-Radford Metropolitan Statistical Areas have contributed to modest population growth in contrast to most rural counties in Southwest Virginia.

Kokopelli is one of the most easily recognized figures found in the petroglyphs and pictographs of the Southwest.

Like all of Southwest Alaska, Sand Point has a subpolar oceanic climate ( Köppen Cfc ), though compared to most parts of the region it is a little less rainy and has fewer wet days-145 as against over 220 throughout the Aleutian Islands and in most of Southeast Alaska.

An unusual feature of the village is that its streets run Northeast to Southwest and Northwest to Southeast, while most streets and roads in the surrounding area, indeed the whole Midwest, run North-South and East-West.

The area of Currie / Lake Shetek has a combined population of almost 1, 000 residents during the summer months, making it one of the most popular vacation destinations in Southwest Minnesota.

Cave Spring covers much of the area known locally as " Southwest County " which has the most affluent suburbs of Roanoke.

The scarp also defines the easternmost limit of the various aquifers present in the Perth Basin sediments, most notably the Southwest Yarragadee Aquifer.

Assuming that the bulk of the Austrian army was deployed so as to cover their bridgehead at Landshut and the main highway to Vienna, on 20 April 1809, Napoleon launched most of his army in an attack to the Southwest.

The party flourished most among farmers in the Southwest and Great Plains, as well as making significant gains in the South, where they faced an uphill battle given the firmly entrenched monopoly of the Democratic Party.

While the Trans-Pecos area is generally acknowledged to be part of the " desert Southwest " most of Texas and large parts of Oklahoma are often placed into a sub-region of the South, which some consider Southwestern in the general framework of the original application, meaning the " Western South.

The brown dog tick, or Rhipicephalus sanguineous, that passes the organism to the dog is prevalent throughout most of the United States, but most cases tend to occur in the Southwest and Gulf Coast regions where there is a high concentration of the tick.