Fajardo is a town and municipality in Puerto Rico located in the east region of the island, facing the Atlantic Ocean, north of Ceiba and east of Luquillo. Fajardo is spread over 7 barrios and Downtown Fajardo, which serves as the administrative center. It is both a principal part of the Fajardo Metropolitan Statistical Area and the San Juan-Caguas-Fajardo Combined Statistical Area.
Ceiba is both a small town and municipality in northeast Puerto Rico. It is named after the famous Ceiba tree. Ceiba is located in the north-east coast of the island, bordering the Atlantic Ocean, south of Fajardo, north of Naguabo and southeast of Río Grande. Located about one hour's driving distance from San Juan, Ceiba is spread over 7 barrios and Ceiba Pueblo. It is part of the Fajardo Metropolitan Statistical Area.
La Goulette, known in Arabic as Halq al-Wadi, is a municipality and the port of Tunis, Tunisia. The Kasbah fortress was built in 1535 by Charles I of Spain but was captured by the Ottoman Turks in 1574. La Goulette is located at around 36°49′5″N10°18′18″E.
Vélez-Blanco is a municipality of Almería province, in the autonomous community of Andalusia, Spain. In 2018 the population was 1938.
Don Alonso Fajardo de Entenza y de Guevara, Córdoba y Velasco, Knight of Alcantara, Lord of Espinardo was Spanish Governor-General and Captain-General of the Islands of the Philippines from 3 July 1618 until his death.
Zipacón is a municipality and town of Colombia in the Western Savanna Province, part of the department of Cundinamarca. The urban centre of Zipacón is situated at an altitude of 2,550 metres (8,370 ft) on the Bogotá savanna, the southern flatlands of the Altiplano Cundiboyacense in the Eastern Ranges of the Colombian Andes. Zipacón borders Anolaima, Facatativá, La Mesa and Bojacá.
Luis Alfonso "El Bendito" Fajardo Posada is a retired Colombian footballer. He was chosen to play for Colombia in the 1990 FIFA World Cup in Italy by his former Atlético Nacional manager Francisco Maturana. He's now a chairman of Deportivo Rionegro, a second division Colombian team.
Requesens is a Catalan surname. It may refer to:
The Green Alliance is a Colombian political party located in the centre of the political spectrum. The party advocates social justice, electoral reform and economic sustainability.
Pedro Fajardo y Chacón, 1st Marquis of los Vélez, Grandee of Spain,, was a Spanish military and nobleman. His seat was at the Castillo de Vélez-Blanco.
Luis Yáñez Fajardo y La Cueva, 2nd Marquis of los Vélez, Grandee of Spain,, was a Spanish military and nobleman.
Eduardo Martínez Fajardo was a Spanish film actor born in Meis (Pontevedra), Spain. He appeared in 183 films, 75 plays and made 2,000 television appearances between 1947 and 2002.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Fajardo–Humacao(Latin: Dioecesis Faiardensis–Humacaensis) is an ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Roman Catholic Church and consists of part of the east and the northeast of the island of Puerto Rico. The current bishop is Luis Miranda Rivera, who was appointed on May 16, 2020 by Pope Francis. The mother church is Cathedral Santiago Apóstol in Fajardo, Puerto Rico.
Fadrique de Toledo or Fadrique Álvarez de Toledo y Mendoza, 1st Marquess of Valdueza, was a Spanish noble and admiral. He was a Knight of the Order of Santiago and Captain General of the Spanish Navy at the age of 37.
Marquis of Molina is a Castilian noble title that the Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor granted to the heirs to the Marquis of Los Vélez. The title was given to Luis Fajardo, 2nd Marquis of los Vélez. For centuries "Marquis de Molina" was the courtesy title of the apparent heir of the Marquis de los Vélez.
Fajardo is a Spanish surname. Notable people with the surname include:
The Battle of Los Alporchones was a battle of the Spanish Reconquista that took place on 17 March 1452. The battle was fought between the troops of the Emirate of Granada and the combined forces of the Kingdom of Castile and its client kingdom, the Kingdom of Murcia. The Moorish army was commanded by Malik ibn al-Abbas and the Castilian troops were commanded by Alonso Fajardo el Bravo, the head of the House of Fajardo and the Alcalde of Lorca Castle. The battle was fought in the area around the city of Lorca and resulted in a victory for the Kingdom of Castile.
The Lioness of Castille is a 1951 Spanish historical drama film directed by Juan de Orduña and starring Amparo Rivelles, Virgilio Teixeira and Alfredo Mayo. De Orduña had directed a number of the most expensive Spanish costume films of the era for the leading studio CIFESA. The film portrays the sixteenth century noblewoman María Pacheco, in a fictitious story that has her battling foreign agents during the reign of Charles V.
Luis Fajardo y Ruíz de Avendaño, KOC, known simply as Luis Fajardo, was a Spanish admiral and nobleman who had an outstanding naval career in the Spanish Navy. He is considered one of the most reputable Spanish militaries of the last years of the reign of Philip II and the reign of Philip III. He held important positions in the navy and carried out several military operations in which he had to fight against English, Dutch, French and Barbary in the Atlantic, the Caribbean and the Mediterranean. It is known for the conquest of La Mamora in 1614.
