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Navajo Dam

(Encyclopedia)Navajo Dam, 402 ft (123 m) high and 3,648 ft (1,112 m) long, NW N.Mex., on the San Juan River, near the Colo. line; built 1958–63 by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. The dam, a major unit of the Colo...

Puerto Rico, University of

(Encyclopedia)Puerto Rico, University of, main campus at Río Piedras, near San Juan; land-grant and commonwealth; coeducational; founded 1903 as successor to a normal school. The Río Piedras campus has faculties ...

Jujuy

(Encyclopedia)Jujuy ho͞ohwēˈ [key], city (1991 pop. 182,663), capital of Jujuy prov., NW Argentina, on the Bermejo River. In the scenic foothill region of the E Andes, it is the center of an agricultural, mining...

Don Giovanni

(Encyclopedia)Don Giovanni: see Don Juan.

Uncompahgre Peak

(Encyclopedia)Uncompahgre Peak, 14,309 ft (4,361 m) high, SW Colo., in the San Juan Mts. of the Rockies and NE of Ouray.

Illia, Arturo

(Encyclopedia)Illia, Arturo ärto͞oˈrō ēlˈyä [key], 1900–1983, president of Argentina (1963–66). A country physician, he entered politics after 1930, and from 1948 to 1952 he was one of the few non-Perón...

Joanes, Vicente

(Encyclopedia)Joanes, Vicente: see Macip, Vicente Juan. ...

Greytown

(Encyclopedia)Greytown: see San Juan del Norte, Nicaragua. ...

Northwest Boundary Dispute

(Encyclopedia)Northwest Boundary Dispute: see San Juan Boundary Dispute. ...

Perón, Isabel María Martínez de

(Encyclopedia)Perón, Isabel María Martínez de: see under Perón, Juan Domingo. ...