Machuca is a 2004 internationally co-produced coming-of-age drama film co-written and directed by Andrés Wood. It stars Matías Quer, Ariel Mateluna, Manuela Martelli, and Aline Küppenheim alongside Federico Luppi.
Andrés Wood Montt is a Chilean film director, producer and writer. Some of his most popular films include Machuca, Violeta se fue a los cielos, and Historias de Futbol. He created his own production company known as Wood Producciones in 1993.
In heraldry, an ordinary componée, anglicised to compony and gobony, is composed of a row of squares, rectangles or other quadrilaterals, of alternating tinctures, often found as a bordure, most notably in the arms of the English House of Beaufort.
Pedro Machuca is mainly remembered as the Spanish architect responsible for the design of the Palace of Charles V adjacent to the Alcazar in Granada. The significance of this work is that it represents likely the first major classic Renaissance style building in Spain. Culturally, it represents the urge by the conquering Christians to challenge the hegemony of Moorish architecture in the recently (1492) acquired province of Granada.
Santa Rosa is a Colombian municipality located in the department of Cauca, in the region known as the Bota Caucana. It is located on the eastern slope of the Colombian Massif, the mountainous area where the Central and Oriental Cordilleras merge. Its economy is based on agriculture, its main products are corn, sugar cane, plantain and livestock. It includes the corregiments of Carmelo, San Juan de Villalobos and Descanse.
San Mateo is a canton in the Alajuela province of Costa Rica. The head city is in San Mateo district.
Baccharis salicifolia is a blooming shrub native to the sage scrub community and desert southwest of the United States and northern Mexico, as well as parts of South America. Its usual common name is mule fat; it is also called seepwillow or water-wally. This is a large bush with sticky foliage which bears plentiful small, fuzzy, pink, or red-tinged white flowers which are highly attractive to butterflies. It is a host plant for the larval stage of the fatal metalmark butterfly, and the adult stage also nectars on the flowers.
Alexis Maximiliano Machuca is an Argentine professional footballer who plays for Chilean side Deportes Concepción in the Segunda División as a defender.
Manuel Hernán Machuca Berríos was a Chilean football defender who played for Chile in the 1950 FIFA World Cup.
Juan de Dios Machuca Valdés is a Chilean football defender who played for Chile in the 1974 FIFA World Cup. He also played for Unión Española.
Machuca Tile Inc., originally known as Mosaicos Machuca, holds the distinction of being the oldest tile manufacturing business in the Philippines, with a history dating back to the early 1900s.
Machuca is a Spanish and Portuguese surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Ondřej Machuča is a Czech footballer who plays for FK Třinec as a midfielder.
The Machuca massacre was a massacre that took place in the Colombian village of Machuca, near Segovia, Antioquia on October 18, 1998. Guerillas belonging to the National Liberation Army (ELN) dynamited an oil pipeline, which caused a spreading fire to the village. Seventy people lost their lives, many of them children.
José Ignacio "Nacho" Fernández Garcia is a Spanish football manager he is the current assistant coach of La Liga club Getafe.
Marlon Ramirez is a Honduran footballer. Besides Honduras, he has played in Egypt and the United States.
Linda Marilina Machuca is an Argentine freestyle wrestler. She is a two-time bronze medalist at the Pan American Wrestling Championships. She won the silver medal in the girls' freestyle 73 kg event at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics held in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Junior Alexander Noguera Machuca is a Paraguayan professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Paraguayan Primera División side 2 de Mayo.
Imanol Javier Machuca is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Campeonato Brasileiro Série A club Fortaleza.
The Mexuar is a section of the Nasrid palace complex in the Alhambra of Granada, Spain. It served as the entrance wing of the Comares Palace, the official palace of the sultan and the state, and it housed various administrative functions. After the 1492 conquest of Granada by Christian Spain the building's main hall was converted into a chapel, though many of the Christian additions were later removed during modern restorations. The palace's two main courtyards were also put to other uses and only their foundations remain visible today.
