Barrios Sentence Examples
Barrios, president of Guatemala, to restore federal unity to Central America failed in 1885, and had little influence on Costa Rican affairs.
Manaoag includes the town proper and eighteen barrios.
Its divisions are " barrios."
In March Barrios invaded Salvador, and on the 2nd of April a battle was fought, in which the Guatemalan president was killed.
There are thirty-eight villages, or barrios, of which eight had, in 1903, 1000 inhabitants or more.
This was confirmed when we visited the barrios and met with residents, teachers, Cuban doctors and financial and food cooperative workers.
A series of Cuban-style literacy drives and free neighborhood health clinics run by Cuban doctors were launched in the poorest barrios.
There are fifty-four villages or barrios in the town; the largest had a population in 1903 of 3254 and two others had each more than 1000 inhabitants.
Pop. (1903) 4494; with the barrios of San Roque and Caridad (on the main peninsula), which are under the municipal government of Cavite (15,630).
The main lines are the Southern, belonging to an American company and running from San Jose to the capital; the Northern, a government line from the capital to Puerto Barrios, which completes the interoceanic railroad; and the Western, from Champerico to Quezaltenango, belonging to a Guatemalan company, but largely under German management.
AdvertisementRufino Barrios (1835-1885), elected in 1873, governed the country after the manner of a dictator; he expelled the Jesuits, confiscated their property and disestablished and disendowed the church.
The republic is in regular steam communication on the Atlantic side with New Orleans, New York and Hamburg, by vessels which visit the ports of Barrios (Santo Tomas) and Livingston.
In 1892 General Jose Maria Reina Barrios was elected president, and in 1897 he was re-elected; but on the 8th of February 1898 he was assassinated.
There are sixty-four barrios or villages in the town, but only one of these had in 1903 more than loon inhabitants.
He was succeeded in 1883 by Dr Cardenas, during whose presidency the attempt of General Barrios to unite the five Central American states was a cause of war between Guatemala and Honduras on one side, and Salvador, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica on the other.
AdvertisementEach municipality is made up of barrios or small villages (about 13,400 in the entire archipelago) and of one, or more, more thickly peopled areas, each called a poblacion, and resembling the township " centre " of New England.
Cardenas had taken command of the united Nicaraguan and Costa Rican army when Barrios died, and on the 1 rth of April 1885 a treaty of peace was signed.
There are more than fifty barrios or villages in the town and the largest of these had, in 1903, 3 8 34 inhabitants.
There are forty-four barrios, or villages, in the town, and three of these had in 1903 more than 1000 inhabitants each.
There are thirty-three barrios or villages in the town, and the largest of them had a population in 1903 of 5419.
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