Viana, Spain
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Viana | |
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Town and municipality | |
 The main church in Viana, Navarra | |
 Flag  Coat of arms | |
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| Country |  Spain |
| Community | Navarre |
| Merindad | Estellerria |
| Comarca | Estella Occidental |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | José Luis Murguiondo (Socialist Party of Navarre) |
| Area | |
• Total | 78.62 km2 (30.36 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 469 m (1,539 ft) |
| Population (2018)[1] | |
• Total | 4,156 |
| • Density | 53/km2 (140/sq mi) |
| Demonym(s) | Basque: vianar Spanish:vianés, -a |
Viana is a town and municipality located in the province and autonomous community of Navarre, northern Spain.[2] Cesare Borgia is buried there.[3]
Viana is on the French Way path of the Camino de Santiago.
Demography
[edit]| Vertical bar chart demographic of Viana between 1900 and 2017 |
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Notable people
[edit]- José Antonio Lacayo de Briones y Palacios, born there in 1679,[5] was Governor of Costa Rica (1713 to 1717) and Nicaragua (1740 to 1745) during Spanish colonial times.[6][7]
- Francisco Gonzalez de Ibarra, a missionary active in Southern California between 1820 and 1840, was a native of Viana,[8] born there in 1782.[9]
- Jesús Elizalde Sainz de Robles (1907-1980), Carlist politician
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Municipal Register of Spain 2018. National Statistics Institute.
- ^ "Spain's Grupo Clavijo installs 12.56 MW solar power plant in Sri Lanka". Colombo Page. LankaPage.com (LLC). 4 February 2017. Retrieved 1 July 2017.
- ^ Moore, Malcolm (23 January 2007). "The rehabilitation of Cesare Borgia". The Telegraph. Telegraph Media Group Limited. Retrieved 1 July 2017.
- ^ "Alteraciones de los municipios en los Censos de Población desde 1842 Viana". Instituto Nacional de Estadística (España) (in Spanish). Retrieved 2 July 2010.
- ^ Caldera Cardenal, Norman José (1993). La descendencia del General José Antonio Lacayo de Briones y Palacios: en Nicaragua y el mundo. Copi-Zás. pp. 15–19.
- ^ Fernández Guardia, Ricardo (2006). Crónicas coloniales de Costa Rica. Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia. p. 124. ISBN 9968314811. Retrieved September 16, 2015.
- ^ Cardenal Telleria, Marco A. (2000). Nicaragua y su historia, 1502-1936: 1502-1936. Banco Mercantil. pp. 169–171. ISBN 9992400641. Retrieved September 15, 2015.
- ^ de Jesús Chauvet, Fidel (1983). Franciscanos memorables en México: ensayo histórico (1523-1982). Centro de Estudios Bernardino de Sahagún.
- ^ Archivo ibero-americano. J. Costa. 1965. p. 324.
External links
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Media related to Viana at Wikimedia Commons- Viana.- Medieval History of Navarre
- Ciudad de Viana (City of Viana) translated to english
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42°30′54″N 2°22′20″W / 42.51500°N 2.37222°W
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