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Word: recoleta (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...engineer from, Brento, Italy, swart, indomitable Ernesto Boso. Ulen & Co. had done the first quarter of the work. On the Limari River 200 mi. north of Valparaiso. Signer Boso raised a wall of rock and concrete which slowly backed up enough water to submerge the historic colonial settlement of Recoleta, a town more than 250 years old. Last to disappear was the battered cross atop Recoleta's parish church...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHILE: Honeydew Dam | 9/3/1934 | See Source »

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