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854 results for "UNESCO Hydrogeological Atlas of the Caribbean Islands" (6300ms)
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1986 CESRM Cardi UWI UNESCO RiskAssessment Agrochemicals Tropical Island Ecosystems Proposal StLucia Barbados

...1985) Hatershed Hanagesent in the Caribbean. Institute of Tropical Forestry, Rio Piedras, Pu ‘Rico. 157 pp. HCEWEM, F. L. & Stephenscn, G £ {1979). the use and Significance of Festicides in the Environment. iley-nterscience. 538 pp. D HACKAY, A. & Paterson, S. (1981}. Calculating Fugacity. Environ. . Technol., 16, - I...
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Document 65fcf6a4

...volcanic islands sean that agrochesmical residues are already reaching-the sarine environaent. Indeed, the tie lags between field application and being laid down in lagoon, s sangrove and P only a few hours or s i Eastern vr are with the ne to . regulate about (involving over 90 130 different agrocheaicals currently being used Many of
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OAS 1990 Economic Biology of Underutilized Tropical Plants Final Report

...amongst the constituents of the seeds. (Besson, etls; 1977 Nandakumar, L & N. Rangaswamy, 1985; Prakash, D. et al. 1988). REFERENCES: Morton, J.F. 1981. Atlas of medicinal plants of Middle America. (C Charles, U.S.A.) Norman, A. et al. 1967. JOURNAL OF PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES. 56: (8) 967-970. Besson,...
Conference Proceeding

1973 NSRC NAS Workshop Aquatic Weed Management Guyana Report

...emergent or algae. The major aquatic weed species in Guyana are listed below: Floating Local Name Eichhornia crassipes Water hyacinth Pistia stratiotes Water lettuce N plena Sour bush sp. Alligator eye Azolla sp. Water velvet * This section is based largely on Bates (1954) Paspalum repens Shrimp grass Submersed Cabomba aquatica Shrimp “moss Utricularia intermedia Lead “moss” El...
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Thomson 1987 GreenGold BananasDependency EasternCaribbean LAB

...UNESCO, Rome, 1980. Commonwealth Secretariat, The Export Marketing Arrangements of the Windward Islands Banana Industry. Economic Affairs Division, Commonwealth Secretariat, mimeo, London, March 1981. Dominica Farmers Union, Bananas and the Dominican Economy: What is to be done? mimeo, Roseau, Dominica, November 198...
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IRF Alphabetical Listing Agricultural Research Development Organizations Individuals Eastern Caribbean College Virgin Islands 1980s

...SUGARCANE PESTS TEL: (809)436-2311 NAME: ORANIZATION: ADDRESS: SPECIALTY: WEBB, ROBERT - PLANT PATHOLOBIST COLLEGE OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION RR-02 BOY 10051, KINGSHILL T. CROIX, USVI 00850 PAPAYA DISEASES, BIOLOGICAL CONTROL TEL: (B09)778-0268 NAME: WEEKS, SHERMAN - AGRONOMIST BRADES AGRICULTURAL STATION, PLYMOUTH...
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Document 68f0dc22

...Bureau of the Census, 1959); Census Atlas Maps of Latin America: Greater Antilles, (Washington: U. S. Bureau of the Census, 1956); John S. Beard, The Natural Vegetation of Trinidad, (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1946) Frans Verdoorn, Plants and Plant Science in Latin America (Waltham: Chronica Bot...
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Wider Caribbean Environmental Agricultural Constraints and Resource Management AMBIO 1981

...the surface salinity of the Caribbean. The 2 relatively high salinities between January and May (with maxima >36.5 percent in February and March) are regularly fol- lowed by lower salinities between June and December (with minima
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UNESCO Courier 1981-12 Caribbean Encounter and Cultural Fusion

...Sinaceur). The Hegira (H.M. Said). The scientific achievement of early Islam (A.-R. Kaddoura). Ummat ul-lim, towards a commonwealth of science (A. Salam). Dynamic of Islamic thought (A.M. Me- ziane). The eye of the heart (Rahmatullah). A new architecture rooted in tradition (D. Kuban). Art tr...
Technical Report

1977 UNESCO Development of Museums Trinidad and Tobago Almeida-Moro IRF TRP175-7-3

...s cultural The Consultant wishes to pay a tribute action programmes were discussed. to the importance and good quality of the work carried out by this institution. 13. Meetings were held with Mr Siltbourne St. Aubyn Clarke, Director of the subregional ECIA office, Mr Luis Lopez Alvarez of UNESCO
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Delatour 1984 UNESCO Monuments and Sites Caribbean Region

...Caribbean Region. Barbados. July 13, 1983. Concepts of Cultural Heritage and Preservation. Unesco. May 8-12, 1978. Association DeVauban a Font Diamant. Les Fortifications de la Guyame. Guyanaise d'Archeologie et Ethnographie. 1974. Elder, J.D. The New World Negroes. Search for Identity. N.C.C.P. Fannon, Frantz. Black Skin, White Mask. Grove Pr...
Policy Document

Cultural Policy Guyana AJ Seymour UNESCO 1977

...the Law Revision Act 1972 public library. As the National Libr. It is empowered to perform the functions of both a national library and a Ppreserving publications received on I ary it is responsible for acquiring and egal deposit, preparing and publishing a national bibliography, arranging interlibrary loans and training staff for other organi...
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Citadelle SansSouci Ramiers Haiti Historic Preservation UNESCO ISPAN 1977-1980

...to Haiti the hand of fellowship. Amadou Mahtar M’Bow Director-General UNESCO £ - % pige Monument légendaire de la lutte héroique de la Nation Haitienne pour la conquéte de son Indépen- dance, la Citadelle La Ferriére demeure le symbole émouvant de la détermination des peuples subjugués de faire échec a I'esclavage partout dans le Monde. Aujourd’hui,...
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Brookfield 1975 Gain and Loss of System Independence Island Ecosystems Fiji UNESCO MAB ConferencePaper

...localities within large islands, is growing in all parts of the island Pacific. The area in which ny present project is engaged is representative of a great many. . : ‘I'his paper differs somewhat from others in this symposium. It -is concerned with a particular current problem, rather than with the progress and eva...
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Brookfield 1970s Gain and Loss of System Independence Island Ecosystems Fiji UNESCO MAB Symposium

...the relative attraction of many other islands, vis-a-vis the evolving growth centres. Differentiation between different islands, island groups, and localities within large islands, is growing in all parts of the island Pacific. The area in which my present project is engaged is r...
Conference Proceeding

1970 Cultural Conservation Conference Jamaica Report Commission Archaeology Historic Monuments UNESCO

...and Restoration the whole Monumental "Plaza de la Santa c ~ by Arq, Luis A.Sosa Villasenor, Mexico, 4. Conservation of Historic Si Under the Sea tes - by lan B, Albright, C~ribbean Research Institute, U. S, Virgin Islands, 5. Port Royel Archaeological Project by Philip Mayes, Jamaica 6. Spanish Town - by Fr. Francis J. Osborne, Jamaica...
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1978 Council of Europe Report Underwater Cultural Heritage Doc4200 Roper

...coopération P'UNESCO et 'ICOM, ’application de la conven- tion au niveau régional par des accords entre les Etats bordant une méme mer ou partie de mer ; d d’appuyer la création d’un groupe euro- de archéologie subaquatique, qui aurait entre autres pour tiche d’élaborer et de tenir a jour une série de manuels européens (complétés en cas de besoin par d matériel visuel) sur : i. l...
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Zube Pitt 1980 CrossCulturalPerceptions Scenic Heritage Landscapes LandscapePlanning

...Analysis. The Johns Hopkins Press, Balimore, pp. 292-346. Craik, K. H., 1972b. Psychological factors in landscape appraisal. En- vironment and Behavior. 4, 3:255-266. - Daniel, T.C. and Boster, R.S., 1976. Measuring scenic beauty: the n beauty estimation method. USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station, Research Paper RM-167, Fort Coll...
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1974 Caribbean Cruise Conservation Preservation Clinics Report IRF NTHP CCA

...The workshops encouraged the small organizations and gave them new ideas. More workshops should be held in the future. FUTURE PROGRAMS The sponsors of the tour are interested in promoting the regional survey programs so badly needed in the Caribbean. It was suggested that a dem...
Conference Proceeding

Nicholson 1989 Educating Through Museums Developing Countries BermudaConference

...literature of CARNIED, which 1s a branch of UNESCO that deals with education and culture in the "Education and Culture". Caribbean. One of this boy's components is This is explained in their literature as follows, I quote:— "Naticonal development is better served when education is linked with culture. Cultwe contribut...
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Berkes 1985 Fishermen and Tragedy of the Commons Community Fishery Management

...G.A. (1980). Oceania. Pp. 245-81 in World Systems of Traditional Resource Munagement (Ed. G.A. KLEE). V.H. Winston & Sons, New York, NY, USA: ix + 290 pp., illustr. Lams, R.[P.] (1981). Learning conservation from the Bedouin. Environmental Conservation, 8(2), p. 106. McCavy, B.J. (1980). A fishermen’s cooperative, limited: indige- nous resource management in a comple...
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Towle Tyson 1979 Planning Strategy Historical Cultural Resources Lesser Antilles IRF

...with a good deal of force by UNESCO, and which has been endorsed by the leaders of many developing nations in- These resources can be cluding those in the Caribbean. utilized in imaginative ways to yield multiple develop- mental benefits. The rich cultural resources of the regio...
Policy Document

1987 Tyson Towle BVI Marine Archaeology Policy MelbertLtd Draft

...ISLAND RESOURCES FOUNDATION Caribbean Headgarters Washington, D.C. Office RED HOOK BOX 33. ST. THOMAS 1718 P STREET. N.W., SUITE T4 U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS 00802 WASHINGTON. D.C. 20036 (809) 775-6225 (202) 265-9712 British Virgin Islands Marine Archaeology Resource Development Conservation and Management PRELIMINARY Discussion of Objectives, Princ...
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Historical Resource Development Workshop St Kitts 1983 Cummins IRF Report

...by the CCA. Sho further ennouncen that CCA had submitted a pro- posal to UNESCO for funding for a subregional museum development plan in 1984, & There fellowed shae scesians planned around central ar a7 thmes during the throc-day workshoo. p ticular topic dis~ cussed was why and how dos o o inclu steric resources in the developmant process <...
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Berkes 1985 Fishermen and Tragedy of the Commons Community Fishery Management

...G.A. (1980). Oceania. Pp. 245-81 in World Svsems of Traditional Resource Muanagement (Ed. GA KLEE). V.H. Winston & Sons, New York, NY, USA: ix + 290 pp., illustr. Lamn, R.[P.] (1981). Learning conservation from the Bedouin. Environmental Conservation, 8(2), p. 106. McCay, B.J. (1980). A fishermen’s cooperative, limited: indige- nous resource management in a complex s...
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ICOM Museums and Development deVarineBohan Feb1968

...is the opinion in some countries “hich have sought new formulas, such as ''cultural centres'. Others, “onvinced that museums are an indispensable element of develop- “€nt in all domains, are doing their utmost to create new ones and encouragement 1o museums by modernizing them and raking m more atiractive. G & &G G &G - Apart from the services they...
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INA Explores Age of Discovery Ships of Discovery Molasses Reef Wreck Research 1980s

...the Turks and Caicos Islands, and brief surveys of early sites in the Bahamas, Mexico and the Dominican Republic, our goals seemed to coincide with the conference quincentennial theme. Asked to provide an overview of the Institute’s Caribbean research, | organized a slide present...
Conference Proceeding

1968 CaribbeanResearchInstitute MarineArchaeologyEasternCaribbean ConferenceProceedings

...jobs o for the local people. These can be museum functions. Mr Marx feels that UNESCO would not help with the establishment & A 03 a museum in the Virgin Islands because this is not an underdeveloped arca; they were willing to participate in museum work in Jamaica n order to stimulate the growth of tou...
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IGBP Global Change Reducing Uncertainties International Council of Scientific Unions

...This region is included within the IAI initiative. Caribbean The START Caribbean region also includes Central America; both are located within the IAI area. Spe- cial interests include the effects of sea level rise and other land-ocean interactions. Temperate Northern Hemisphere This large region has a...
Conference Proceeding

1993 UNESCO MehirAshraf Statement PreparatoryCommittee SIDS Conference

...problenms of environment and development are urgent and complex. They require an extensive array of initiatives and disciplines for their solution. __ Critical to the effort will be the involvement of people, and critical to enhancing both human involvement and human skills are education and training, especially in science and e...
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Insula Vol1 No1 1993 UNESCO Satellite Monitoring Sea Level Rise

...System of Management 14 in Nicobar Islands 41 G. Prakash Reddy 17 The Archipelago of Finland: between Two Archetypes Errka J. Maula 45 Insula's Page 48 News from MAB 49 Book Reviews 50 Contributions 52 19 Front Cover: An old map of the islands of Guadeloupe and Marie 26 29...
Technical Report

1987 SCOPE-MAB Workshop Geosphere-Biosphere Observatories Design IGBP Dyer UNESCO

...Reserva de la Biosfera de las Marismas del odiel, Spain Reserva de la Biosfera "Sierra Nevada", Spain TG Atlas Steppe WD Sahara 2(0) Western Sahel 0 TDF West African Woodland/Savanna 10(3) Parc national de la Boucle due Boule, Mali Parc national de la Comoe, Ivory Coast Foret classee de la mare aux hippopotomes, Burkina Faso BN I -6- THF Guinean Rain Forest 5(4) Parc National de...
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Insula Vol1 No1 1993 Dossier Global Warming Sea Level Rise Does Sea Level Rise Stewart Jerfue Dwivedi UNESCO COMAR

...Does the Sea-level Rise? Science versus Fears Insula's Guest An Interview with Federico Mayor, Director-General UNESCO Islanders at Work The Salt Gardens a Disappearing Art Pier Giovanni d'Ayala VOLUME 1 NO. 1 - Spring 1993 Culture and Traditional Knowledge Popular use of Medicinal Plants in the Maltese Islands
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Dyer 1987 Definition Design Geosphere Biosphere Observatories Global Change ScopeMAB Workshop Report

...B Caribbean Headuarters RED HOOK BOX 33, ST. THOMAS U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS 00802 (809) 775-6225 Please Reply To: Washington, D.C. Office 1718 P STREET, N.W., SUITE T4 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20036 (202) 265-9712 B DEFINITION AND DESIGN OF GEOSPHERE-BIOSPHERE OBSERVATION FOR STUDYING CLOBAL CHANGE BY M.I. Dyer UNESCO B BN N Il Il R =] i...
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Connell Problems of Atoll States Global Warming Insula Vol1No1 1993

...climate change convention and a biodiversity con- vention, and hold promise of fur- ther practical change. Yet in some metropolitan countries there are fears that radical legislation to reduce GE will produce a 'poor- house effect’ and therefore no certainty that appropriate action will be taken. International Cooperation The particular threat to small island countri...
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1990 MAB Vol5 Sustainable Development Environmental Management Small Islands Beller dAyala Hein

...sources of marine pollution can be divided into utilizing marine water-quality standards, effluent standards, environmental planning, and best management practices. The participants in the Puerto Rico workshop agreed on the need for a Protocol for the Wider Caribbean Region for controlling pollution from land- based...
Policy Document

Caribbean Regional Planning Adaptation Global Climate Change GEF OAS WorldBank 1996

...March 23, 1994 Belize - October 31, 1994 Commonwealth of Dominica - June 21, 1993 Grenada - August 11, 1994 Guyana - August 29, 1994 Jamaica - January 6, 1995 St. Kitts and Nevis - January 7, 1993 St. Lucia - June 14, 1993 Trinidad and Tobago - June 24, 1994 Total Project Costs STV — US$ 6. million N - GEF Financing US 6.5 million Government Counterpart Financing to be quanti...
Conference Proceeding

1993 IISD EarthNegotiationsBulletin Vol8 GlobalConference SustainableDevelopment SIDS PrepCom Report

...work of UNESCO has been reoriented in response to nda 21 and is bein, carried out in cooperation with othe o5 N agencies. UNESCO projects also cover the interaction between ecology, population and tourism in SIDS. IGC: Elizabeth Dickson, speaking on behalf of the Intergovernmental Committee on Biological Diversity, g...
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UN Regional Technical Meeting Report SIDS Atlantic Caribbean Mediterranean Port of Spain 1993

...Wiltshire UNESCO Representative and Sub-Regional Adviser in Science and Technology for the Caribbean P. O. Box 812, Port-of-Spain Tel.: 622-0536; Fax.: 628-4827 UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME (UNDP) Mr. Paul Koulen Officer-in-Charge, Caribbean Division United Nations Plaza, New York, NY 10017 United States of
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EnvironmentalPlanningIssues 08 1995 SmallIslandStates SustainableDevelopment Bass DalalClayton

...1995 ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS ADB Asian Development Bank AOSIS Association of Small Island States CARICOM Caribbean Community Cco Commission de 10cién Indien EC European Community EMPS-90 Environmental Management Plan for Seychelles, 1992-2000 EEZ Exclusive Economic Zone ESCAP Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific FAO United Nations F...
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EARTHMAP Design Study Implementation Plan Global Environment Technology Foundation 1995

...at a scale larger than the existing 1:5 million- scale FAO/UNESCO soil map of the world. Towards this goal. a universal legend for soils and terrain mapping at a scale of 1:1 million has been developed by a working group of the International Soci- ety of Soil Science. This method lends itself...
Policy Document

1994 UN Global Conference SIDS Barbados Declaration Programme of Action

...impact in many cases exacerbated by the effects of natural hazards and extreme events, such as hurricanes/cyclones/typhoons, storm surges and abnormally high tides. A. National action, policies and measures (i) Establish and/or strengthen, where appropriate, institutional, administrative and legislative arrangements for developing and implementing integrated coastal...
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Vermeiren Watson New Technology Storm Risk Assessment Caribbean CDMP TAOS IRF 1995

...as the various components interact differently on differcnt shorelines, Figurce 1 shows these components, which are described below: @ Asironomical Tide. Tide levels are especially imporant for hindeasting, and arc important for setting upper and lower bounds for planaing purposes. Throughout most of the Caribbean, tidal variations are small...
Academic Paper

Roy Connell 1991 Climatic Change Future Atoll States JCR 7-4 1057-1075

...MACDONALD, B., 1982. Cinderellas of the Empire. Towards a History of Kiribati and Tuvalu. Can- berra, ANU Press. MARSHALL, J.F. and JACOBSON, G., 1985. Holocene growth of a mid-Pacific atoll: Tarawa, Kiribati, Coral Reefs, 4, 11-17. MARSHALL, M., 1979. Education and Depopulation on a Micronesian Atoll. Micronesica, 15, 1-11. Maros, C. and T...
Conference Proceeding

Ratter Possekel Bynoe Resource Management Caribbean EcoEco Scenarios LandUse IRF

...development alterna- tives that meet the criteria of the Brundtland definition: “Sustainable development is de- velopment that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs” (World RS S 32 —————————————————————————————————————...
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Bass 1993 Ecology Economics Small Islands Sustainable Development Framework

...appropriate in densely-populated islands subject to high resource demands. From an economic viewpoint, resource management should aim to sustain high income on relatively small land units. It should realize com- parative advantages to produce speciality crops for which there are possibilities of creating monopolies, such as flower/fruit/vegetable/spice intensive horti...
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Clark 1986 Sustainable Development Biosphere Chapter1 Themes Research Program IIASA CambridgeUP

...2000-2075 from Keyfitz et al., note [48). ® Energy: Data are energy consumption for 1981, from World Bank (1984), this note, Table 8. ® Agriculture: Data are total agricultural production for 1979 in dollar values, taken from data tapes of the Food and Agriculture Program at the Inter- national Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria...
Technical Report

1996 UVI Renewable Energy Institute Business Plan Eastern Caribbean Center

...Implications of climatic changes in the wide Caribbean region : prelimi- nary conclusions of the Task Team of Experts. [Kingston, Jamaica]: Caribbean Environment Programme, United Nations Environment Programme, 1989. (CEP Technical Report No. 3) McCarley, Jeff, St. Thomas/St. John Chamber of...
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UNESCO IRF Status Hydrogeological Maps Caribbean Islands 1989

...Island Canouan Trinidad Tobago West Caicos Providenciales Pine Cay North Caicos Middle Caicos East Caicos South Caicos Grand Turk Salt Cay St. Croix St. Thomas St. John Margarita Coche Cubagus Tortuga Blanquilla Orchila s 1:50 000 1:25 000 1.25 000 1.25 o 1.25 000 — 25 oon 25 000 25 000 50 000 S0 000 50 000 250 000 50 000 20 000 25 000 25 000...
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UNESCO ROSTLAC Status Hydrogeological Maps Caribbean Islands 1989

...Copies of the Explanatory Notes not yet distributed). Mr. Chris Winkel Soil & Water Section, Dept. of Agriculture, Animal Husbandry & Fisheries Klein Kwartier 33 Curacao, Netherlands Antilles Telephone: (5999) 70288 ext. 40 Cable: BCCUR Telefax: (999) 96 132 57 - 27 - o o 4.21 Puerto Rico (Culebra, Vieques and Mona) Organization responsible f...
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