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Cerro Gordo

(Encyclopedia)Cerro Gordo sāˈrō gōrˈᵺō [key], mountain pass, E Mexico, on the road between Veracruz and Xalapa, site of a decisive battle (Apr. 17–18, 1847) of the Mexican War. General Santa Anna, having ...

Santo Domingo Tehuantepec

(Encyclopedia)Santo Domingo Tehuantepec: see Tehuantepec, Mexico. ...

Parral

(Encyclopedia)Parral: see Hidalgo del Parral, Mexico. ...

Ciudad Porfirio Díaz

(Encyclopedia)Ciudad Porfirio Díaz, Mexico: see Piedras Negras. ...

Echeverría Álvarez, Luis

(Encyclopedia)Echeverría Álvarez, Luis lo͞oēsˈ āchāvār-rēˈä älˈvärās [key], 1922–, president of Mexico (1970–76). A lawyer, he was formerly a law professor. As a member of the ruling Institutiona...

Juárez

(Encyclopedia)Juárez, officially Heroica Ciudad Juárez, city (1990 pop. 789,522) Chihuahua state, N Mexico, on the Rio Grande opposite El Paso, Tex. Connected with the United States by three international bridges...

Santiago, Río Grande de

(Encyclopedia)Santiago, Río Grande de, river, Mexico: see Lerma. ...

Victoria de Durango

(Encyclopedia)Victoria de Durango: see Durango, city, Mexico. ...

Ixtacíhuatl

(Encyclopedia)Ixtacíhuatl or Ixtaccíhuatl: see Iztaccíhuatl, Mexico. ...

Lorde, Audrey Geraldine

(Encyclopedia)Lorde, Audre, 1934–1992, African-American poet, essayist, and civil rights activist, b. New York City, grad. Columbia (M.L.S. 1961). Lorde was born to...