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El Chichón

(Encyclopedia)El Chichón, volcano, Chiapas, Mexico, 40 mi (59 km) SSW of Villahermosa, rising to 3,478 ft (1,060 m). Also known as Chichonal, it had not erupted significantly in historic times until 1982, when a v...

Bab el Mandeb

(Encyclopedia)Bab el Mandeb băb ĕl mănˈdĕb [key] [Arab.,= gate of tears], strait, 17 mi (27 km) wide, linking the Red Sea with the Gulf of Aden and separating the Arabian peninsula from E Africa. It is an impo...

Ksar el Kebir

(Encyclopedia)Ksar el Kebir ksär ĕl kĕbĭrˈ [key], city (1994 pop. 107,065), N Morocco. The name also appears as Alcazarquivir and Al Qasr al Kabir. Near the city on Aug. 4, 1578, the Moroccans soundly defeated...

Camino Real, El

(Encyclopedia)Camino Real, El [Span.,=The Royal Road]. There are Camino Reals in most former Spanish possessions, including four in former Spanish territory in the United States. Probably the best-known American tr...

El Niño–Southern Oscillation

(Encyclopedia)El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) ĕl nēnˈyō [key], large-scale climatic fluctuation of the tropical Pacific Ocean and the overlying atmosphere. The El Niño [Span.,=the child] is the South Am...

Kut-el-Amara

(Encyclopedia)Kut-el-Amara: see Al Kut, Iraq.

Shatt el Arab

(Encyclopedia)Shatt el Arab: see Shatt al Arab. ...

Gadhafi, Moammar El-

(Encyclopedia)Gadhafi, Moammar El-: see Qaddafi, Muammar al-. ...

Bahr el-Huleh

(Encyclopedia)Bahr el-Huleh: see Hula, Lake.

Bahr el Abiad

(Encyclopedia)Bahr el Abiad, river, Sudan: see White Nile. ...