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River in Alta Verapaz and Izabal, Guatemala
The Polochic River (Spanish pronunciation: [poloˈtʃik]) is a 194-kilometre-long (121 mi) river in eastern Guatemala. The 194 kilometers long river flows
Polochic_River
Fault zone in Guatemala and Mexico
Chiapas, following the deep valleys of the Polochic River, Chixoy River and Cuilco River. The Chixoy-Polochic Fault is a large, dominantly strike-slip,
Chixoy-Polochic_Fault
River in Guatemala
Semuc Champey and Santa María Cahabón below which it joins the smaller Polochic River. The Cahabón has whitewater reaches, with Class III and IV rapids —
Cahabón_River
Lake in Guatemala
acres; 259 mi2) [1] and a maximum depth of 18 m (59 ft). The Polochic River is the largest river that drains into the lake. The lake, which is only a metre
Lake_Izabal
Municipality of Guatemala in Alta Verapaz
Panzós means "place of the green waters" in reference to the nearby Polochic River and swamps full of alligators and birds. In late 19th century Alta Verapaz
Panzós
Species of fish
to inhabit Izabal Lake in Guatemala, and possibly also inhabits the Polochic River. It reaches a maximum standard length of 44 cm (17 in). Synonyms of
Potamarius_izabalensis
the valleys of the Polochic River in the north and the Motagua River in the south. Its western border is marked by the Salamá River valley which separates
Sierra_de_las_Minas
Topics referred to by the same term
Oriental of Jujuy, Argentina Santa Rosita, Guatemala, a place nearby the Polochic River in Guatemala a neighborhood of Guatemala City, Guatemala Santa Rosita
Santa_Rosita
Municipality in Corredor Seco, Guatemala
the Guatemalan department of Alta Verapaz. It is located in the hot Polochic River valley. It was originally part of the municipality of Panzós, but was
Santa_Catalina_la_Tinta
Municipality and town in Izabal Department, Guatemala
Also located in the Northern Transversal Strip, the valley of the Polochic River was inhabited since ancient times by k'ekchí and P'okomchi people. In
El_Estor
Private international mining and metals group
product of pollution, but due to organic and chemical waste in the Polochic river, one of the largest in Guatemala. The finding was supported by the Ministry
Solway_Group
Geographical region of Mesoamerica
the Polochic and the Sarstoon rivers. A third, the Sierra de las Minas, or its eastern portion, Sierra del Mico, stretches between the Polochic and the
Guatemalan_Highlands
Place in Guatemala
Cambranes Also located in the Northern Transversal Strip, the valley of the Polochic River had been inhabited since ancient times by k'ekchí and P'okomchi people
Franja_Transversal_del_Norte
Castellanos Cambranes Also located in the Northern Transversal Strip, the Polochic River Valley has been inhabited since ancient times by the K'ekchí and P'okomchi
History_of_Guatemala
1524–1697 defeat of Mayan kingdoms
engaged in battle with the Maya natives at the city of Chacujal, on the Polochic River. He seized plentiful supplies of food from the city and sent supplies
Spanish_conquest_of_Guatemala
farms (fincas) controlled mainly by Germans to the port of Panzós on Polochic River, which merged to Lago de Izabal and the Caribbean Sea. The company was
Rail_transport_in_Guatemala
Municipality in Alta Verapaz, Guatemala
Railroad maiden voyage in 1894. Verapaz Railroad steamboat sailing the Polochic river. Coffee transport. Verapaz Railroad engine in the 1900s. One of the
Tucurú
Municipality in Alta Verapaz, Guatemala
as it was used to ship coffee towards the Caribbean Sea through the Polochic river, and Lake of Izabal. Citypopulation.de Population of departments and
Tactic,_Guatemala
River in the south of England
other projects: the Yellow River in China, Lake Simcoe in Canada, the Polochic Basin in Guatemala and the Lower Owens River in the USA. The prize for 2009
River_Avon,_Hampshire
Maya-Q'eqchi families were forcibly removed from their homes in the Polochic River region. The Widmann Lagardes family claimed that they owned the land
Discrimination against Maya peoples in Guatemala
Discrimination_against_Maya_peoples_in_Guatemala
River Franco River Chocón River Dulce River Chocón Machacas River Lake Izabal Polochic River Matanzas River Cahabón River Lanquin River Motagua River
List_of_rivers_of_Guatemala
Municipality in El Quiché, Guatemala
legend is that the white sediments in the banks and hills above the Polochic River are the origin of Sac Wal B'a. As of 1850, the British were calling
Zacualpa
Municipality in Baja Verapaz, Guatemala
Railroad maiden voyage in 1894. Verapaz Railroad steamboat sailing the Polochic river. Coffee transport. Verapaz Railroad engine in the 1900s. The Thomae
Purulhá
Province of the Kingdom of Guatemala
state lay in ‘the sierras which stretch between the Polochic River, to the south, and the Cahabón River, to the north,’ and thus bordered the Poqomchi’ polity
Verapaz,_Guatemala
Musical artist
last years of his life in the Polochic River valley which inspired him his famous fox-blues Río Polochic. Río Polochic, fox-blues Ruiseñor Verapaz, capriccio
Rodolfo_Narciso_Chavarría
Water resources management for Guatemala
industrial water use as a means of reducing effluents to the Motagua and Polochic Rivers. The World Bank is implementing the $85 million project aimed at improving
Water resources management in Guatemala
Water_resources_management_in_Guatemala
04237.x. White, RA (1985). "The Guatemala earthquake of 1816 on the Chixoy-Polochic fault". Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. 75 (2): 455–73
List_of_fault_zones
Subregion of North America
2009. Another onshore continuation of the Cayman Trough is the Chixoy-Polochic Fault, which runs parallel to, and roughly 80 kilometers (50 mi) to the
Central_America
First-order subdivision of Mesoamerica
Block of the Caribbean Plate. The Region notably houses the active Motagua–Polochic Fault Zone in the south, part of the Central American Volcanic Front in
Maya_Region
Mountain in Guatemala
Based upon geological maps, Cerro Amay is located directly on Chixoy-Polochic Geological Fault System that comprises the geological boundary between
Cerro_Amay
reaches up to 2504 m. Located between the Motagua Fault and the Chixoy-Polochic Fault, the Chuacús mountains were formed by complex tectonic and geological
Sierra_de_Chuacús
Second-order subdivision of Mesoamerica
Channel, and Maya Mountain Faults to the east, and a portion of the Motagua–Polochic Fault Zone to the south. In the northern and central Lowlands, encompassed
Maya_Lowlands
List of wetlands protected under the Ramsar Convention
800 Punta de Manabique 132,900 328,000 Refugio de Vida Silvestre Bocas del Polochic 21,227 52,450 Reserva de Usos Múltiples Río Sarstún 35,202 86,990
List_of_Ramsar_Sites
Genus of fish
Arroya cichlid (Theraps irregularis) from fast-flowing rivers and streams in the Usumacinta and Polochic basins of southern Mexico and Guatemala. It is a medium-sized
Theraps
Major seismic zone in the southern and midwestern United States
waves moving upstream gave observers the impression that the Mississippi River was flowing backwards. At New Madrid, trees were knocked down and riverbanks
New_Madrid_seismic_zone
drainage basins. These rivers include the Polochic and Dulce Rivers, which drain into Lake Izabal, the Motagua River, the Sarstún, which forms the boundary
Guatemala
springs that dot the active trace of the Chixoy Polochic fault, 2 km south of the lake in the chixoy river valley, where they form large travertine fans
Lake_Chichoj
boundary with Honduras. The rivers are short and shallow in the Pacific vertient, larger and deeper, such as the Polochic which drains in Lake Izabal
Geography_of_Guatemala
Earthquake affecting Central America
Caribbean plate, and continues onshore as the Motagua Fault and the Chixoy-Polochic Fault. The 30-second offshore quake was felt in Guatemala, El Salvador
2009_Swan_Islands_earthquake
Archaeology museum in Estanzuela, Guatemala
Spanish). Retrieved 2021-08-29. IGER. Biología 10: 4.° Bachillerato - Grupo Polochic (in Spanish). IGER. ISBN 978-9929-614-64-2. IGER. Ciencias Sociales y Formación
Estanzuela Museum of Paleontology and Archaeology
Estanzuela_Museum_of_Paleontology_and_Archaeology
Region in northern Central America
Block is bounded on the north by the Motagua-Polochic Fault Zone in Guatemala. The valley of the Motagua River, which follows the fault, forms the northwestern
Chortis_Highlands
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English : habitational name from the place in Bedfordshire (named in Old English as ‘settlement (Old English tūn) on the (river) Lea’), or, more plausibly in view of the pattern of distribution, from Luton in Devon (near Teignmouth), named in Old English as ‘Lēofgifu’s settlement’ (from an Old English female personal name composed of the elements lēof ‘dear’, ‘beloved’ + gifu ‘gift’). A further possible source of the name is Luton in Kent, named as the ‘settlement of Lēofa’.
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English : patronymic from Mathew; a variant spelling of Matthews. In the U.S., this form has absorbed some European cognates such as German Matthäus.Among the earliest bearers of the name in North America was Samuel Mathews (c.1600–c.1657), who came to VA from London in about 1618. He established a plantation at the mouth of the Warwick River, which was at first called Mathews Manor; later its name was changed to Denbigh. He was one of the most powerful and influential men in the early affairs of the colony. He (or possibly his son, who bore the same name) was governor of the colony from 1657 until his death in 1660.
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English : habitational name from places so named in Cumbria, probably so named from an Old English river name Hlóra nmeaning ‘the roaring one’ + Old English tūn ‘settlement’.
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Irish : shortened form of McMeans.English : habitational names from East and West Meon in Hampshire, which take their names from the Meon river. The word is Celtic but of uncertain meaning, possibly ‘swift one’.nickname from Middle English mene ‘inferior in rank’, ‘of low degree’ (from Old English gemǣne), or from Middle English mene ‘moderate in behaviour’ (from Old French mëen, mean).
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English : topographic name for someone who lived in the center of a village, from Middle English midde ‘mid’ + toun ‘village’, ‘town’.English : habitational name from places in Lancashire, Worcestershire, and West Yorkshire, so named in Old English as ‘farmstead at a river confluence’, from (ge)m̄ðe ‘river confluence’ + tūn ‘farmstead’, ‘settlement’.
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English : habitational name from places in Lancashire and southern Cumbria, named in Old English as Lunesdæl, from the river name Lune + dæl ‘valley’. This ancient British river name is the same as in the first element in Lancaster, through which city the river runs.
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English (now found mainly in northern Ireland) : habitational name from any of the various places so called, in Northamptonshire, Devon, Lincolnshire, and elsewhere. The one in Northamptonshire is Old English Ludingtūn ‘settlement (tūn) associated with Luda’ (a personal name of uncertain origin); that in Cornwood, Devon, is Old English Ludantūn ‘Luda’s settlement’; that in Lincolnshire is ‘pool settlement’, from Old English luh ‘pool’, and Lutton in North Yorkshire is ‘settlement on the river Hlūde’ (see Loud) or ‘Luda’s settlement’.
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English : topographic name for someone who lived near a meadow or a patch of arable land (see Layman).Dutch : from a Germanic personal name composed of the elements liut ‘people’, or possibly liub ‘dear’, ‘beloved’ + man ‘man’.Americanized form of German Leimann, Americanized form of Leinemann, habitational name for someone from Leine in Pomerania, or for someone who lived by either of two rivers called Leine, near Hannover and in Saxony.
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Norwegian : habitational name from any of several farmsteads in southwestern Norway, named with Old Norse lón ‘calm, deep pool (in a river)’.English : variant of Lane.Muslim : unexplained.
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Welsh : from the Welsh personal name Meurig, a form of Maurice, Latin Mauritius (see Morris).English : from an Old French personal name introduced to Britain by the Normans, composed of the Germanic elements meri, mari ‘fame’ + rīc ‘power’.Scottish : habitational name from a place near Minigaff in the county of Dumfries and Galloway, so called from Gaelic meurach ‘branch or fork of a road or river’.Irish : when not Welsh or English in origin, probably an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Mearadhaigh (see Merry).
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English : topographic name from Old English hlið, hlid, Old Norse hlÃð ‘slope’.English : habitational name from places so named in Shropshire, Herefordshire, or Somerset, or on the island of Orkney. The Herefordshire and Somerset places are named with the Old English river name HlÌ„de (see Loud).English : from a medieval byname derived from Old English līðe ‘mild’, ‘gentle’.
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River
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English (of Norman origin) : habitational name from any of various places in northern France called Rivières, from the plural form of Old French rivière ‘river’ (originally meaning ‘riverbank’, from Latin riparia). The absence of English forms without the final -s makes it unlikely that it is ever from the borrowed Middle English vocabulary word river, but the French and other Romance cognates do normally have this sense.Common Americanized form of French Larivière. ire.
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English : habitational name from a place in Cumbria, so called from the river on which it stands. The place name is of obscure etymology, perhaps of ancient Welsh origin (compare Lauder), or from Old Norse lauðr ‘froth’, ‘foam’ + á ‘river’.
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English (Norfolk) : from the Middle English personal name Loveke, Old English Lufeca, a derivative of Lufa (see Love 1), or LÄ“ofeca, a derivative of LÄ“ofa (see Leaf 2).English : perhaps a habitational name from places in Cumbria and Northumberland called Lowick, or Lowich in Northamptonshire. The first is from Old Norse lauf ‘leaf’ + vÃk ‘creek’; the second is from the river name Low (possibly from Old English luh ‘pool’) + Old English wÄ«c ‘dairy farm’, ‘dwelling’; and the third from an unattested Old English personal name, Luffa, or Luhha + wÄ«c.Probably a respelling of Lovik.
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English : habitational name from a place in Shropshire, so named from the Old English river name HlÅ«de (from hlÅ«d ‘loud’, ‘roaring’) referring to the Teme river + hlÄw ‘hill’. See also Laidlaw.Dutch : from the personal name Ludolph.
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English : of uncertain origin. It may be a nickname for a beggar, from an agent derivative of maund ‘beg’ (probably from Old French mendier, Late Latin mendicare); this word is not attested before the 16th century, but may well have been in use earlier. Alternatively it may be an occupational name for a maker of baskets, from an agent derivative of Middle English maund ‘basket’ (Old French mande, of Germanic origin); or perhaps for someone in some position of authority, from a shortened form of Middle English coma(u)nder (from coma(u)nden ‘to command’).German : habitational name from places called Mandern, in Hesse and the Rhineland.Belgian (van der Mander) : habitational name from a place called Ter Mandere or Mandel, in West Flanders, derived from the river name Mandel.Indian (Panjab) : Sikh (Dogar, Jat) name of unknown meaning, based on the names of clans in these communities.
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English : habitational name from Louth in Lincolnshire, so called from its position on the river Lud (Old English Hlūde, meaning ‘the loud one’).Irish : when not of English origin (see 1), probably a reduced and altered form of McLeod. Compare McLouth.
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English : habitational name from a pair of villages in Cheshire, on either side of the Weaver river, recorded in Domesday Book as Maneshale, from the genitive case of the Old English personal name Mann + Old English scylf ‘shelf’, ‘ledge’.
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Form of Evelyn: Life.
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meaning from Lydia.
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Beautiful Woman
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New Sun rays of motivation
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Servant of Tulsi
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Happy
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Ramswaroop | ராமஸà¯à®µà®°à¯‚பÂ
Lord Rama
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A little lioness.
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Graceful Lady; Goddess Saraswati
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A tribe of North American Indians formerly living on the Neuse and Tar rivers in North Carolina. They were conquered in 1713, after which the remnant of the tribe joined the Five Nations, thus forming the Six Nations. See Six Nations, under Six.
n.
The act of swimming across, as a river.
n.
Fig.: A large stream; copious flow; abundance; as, rivers of blood; rivers of oil.
v. t.
To pass or cross by wading; as, he waded /he rivers and swamps.
n.
A traveler; -- applied in Canada to a man employed by the fur companies in transporting goods by the rivers and across the land, to and from the remote stations in the Northwest.
v. i.
To hawk by the side of a river; to fly hawks at river fowl.
n.
A stream or river flowing into a larger river or into a lake; an affluent.
a.
Lying or being on the further side of the river Po with reference to Rome, that is, on the north side; -- opposed to cispadane.
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The quality or state of being a river.
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High land; ground elevated above the meadows and intervals which lie on the banks of rivers, near the sea, or between hills; land which is generally dry; -- opposed to lowland, meadow, marsh, swamp, interval, and the like.
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The side or bank of a river.
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A genus of fresh-water or river turtles which have the shell imperfectly developed and covered with a soft leathery skin. They are noted for their agility and rapacity. Called also soft tortoise, soft-shell tortoise, and mud turtle.
v. t.
To make an opening, or a passageway, through or under; as, to tunnel a mountain; to tunnel a river.
adv.
From a lower to a higher position, literally or figuratively; as, from a recumbent or sitting position; from the mouth, toward the source, of a river; from a dependent or inferior condition; from concealment; from younger age; from a quiet state, or the like; -- used with verbs of motion expressed or implied.
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In a high degree; to no small extent; exceedingly; excessively; extremely; as, a very great mountain; a very bright sum; a very cold day; the river flows very rapidly; he was very much hurt.
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Having rivers; as, a rivery country.
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Supplied with rivers; as, a well rivered country.
v. t.
To pass over; as, Alexander transpassed the river.
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Not divided; not separated or disunited; unbroken; whole; continuous; as, plains undivided by rivers or mountains.
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An artificial passage or archway for conducting canals or railroads under elevated ground, for the formation of roads under rivers or canals, and the construction of sewers, drains, and the like.