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National Park Service Launches New Web Site to Highlight Hispanic Heritage Parks
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Posted on 10/06/2003 10:36:36 AM PDT by chance33_98

National Park Service Launches New Web Site to Highlight Hispanic Heritage Parks; New Web Site is Part of an Iberian Project

10/6/03 11:23:00 AM

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To: National Desk

Contact: John Wright of the U.S. Department of the Interior, 202-208-6416

WASHINGTON, Oct. 6 /U.S. Newswire/ -- National Park Service Director Fran Mainella has announced the availability of a new web site designed to highlight the importance of Hispanic Heritage Parks and the part they play in the nation's history.

The new site titled, "Hispanic Heritage Parks: An Iberian Project," assists visitors in experiencing the nation's Hispanic heritage that is preserved and interpreted throughout the National Park Service.

"We are proud of the rich Hispanic heritage that exists in parks throughout our country," said National Park Service Director Fran Mainella. "From Puerto Rico to Alaska, many of these parks have a direct connection to the Iberian Peninsula."

The new web site is part of an Iberian Project dedicated to the several parks in the national park system of Iberian or Spanish heritage. The site encourages a virtual electronic tour of all parks in the national park system of Hispanic heritage. Visitors can log onto www.nps.gov in order to access this special program, which is prepared in English and Spanish.

The Iberian Peninsula consists today of Portugal and Spain. It is an area surrounded by water except for its northern boundary with France. The Mediterranean Sea is to the east and to the west is the Atlantic Ocean. In the south, the Strait of Gibraltar separates the Iberian Peninsula from northern Africa. During the 15th and 16th centuries the nations of Portugal and Spain pioneered the European discovery of sea routes that opened the first channels of interaction among all of the world's continents.

Part of the NPS mission focuses on the preservation, education, and interpretation of the heritage of the United States -- a multidimensional heritage represented by 388 units throughout the national park system. This multidimensional heritage includes the history of the Spanish Colonial period, preserved in various units of the national park system. This important chapter of American history is shared with you through the units mentioned below and through other parks that preserve our rich Hispanic heritage.

National Park Units of Iberian or Spanish Heritage

Coronado National Memorial -- Arizona

Tumacacori National Historical Park -- Arizona

Cabrillo National Monument -- California

Channel Islands National Park -- California

Fort Point National Historic Site -- California

John Muir National Historical Site -- California

Point Reyes National Seashore -- California

Biscayne National Park -- Florida

Castillo de San Marcos National Monument -- Florida

De Soto National Memorial -- Florida

Fort Matanzas National Monument -- Florida

El Morro National Monument -- New Mexico

Pecos National Historical Park -- New Mexico

Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument -- New Mexico

San Antonio Missions National Historical Park -- Texas

San Juan National Historic Site -- Puerto Rico


TOPICS: Government; US: Arizona; US: California; US: Florida; US: New Mexico; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: heritage; hispanic; history; iberianproject; immigrantlist; interior; nps; portugal; spain

1 posted on 10/06/2003 10:36:37 AM PDT by chance33_98
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To: chance33_98

2 posted on 10/06/2003 10:39:04 AM PDT by bmwcyle (Hillary's election to President will start a civil war)
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To: All
Hi mom!
3 posted on 10/06/2003 10:39:49 AM PDT by Support Free Republic (Your support keeps Free Republic going strong!)
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To: chance33_98
Should the Alamo be on the list...it has some hispanic "heritage"!!!
4 posted on 10/06/2003 10:44:48 AM PDT by Onelifetogive
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To: chance33_98
If they do the same job marking the mileages on the trail signs that they do on the signs in my local park, no Mexican would ever find his way into this country again.
5 posted on 10/06/2003 10:44:52 AM PDT by holyscroller
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To: bmwcyle
You know what the map tells me???

Debt retirement...

Sell the land, pay off the National debt...

6 posted on 10/06/2003 10:46:16 AM PDT by Onelifetogive
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To: gubamyster; HiJinx
ping
7 posted on 10/06/2003 10:55:48 AM PDT by Libertarianize the GOP (Ideas have consequences)
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To: chance33_98
The only artifacts of spanish heritage visible in the parks and recreation areas in New Mexico are broken beer bottles, trash, and public property defaced with spray paint.
8 posted on 10/06/2003 10:57:48 AM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: SpaceBar
Georgia, Florida, Missouri, Alabama, Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona, California, Oregon, Utah, Nevada...

Iberian... think skippy, think...

9 posted on 10/06/2003 10:59:49 AM PDT by Porterville
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To: chance33_98
1492 October 12. The Spaniards land on an island called San Salvador — either present-day Watling Island or Samana Cay in the eastern Bahamas.

1513 Juan Ponce de León lands on the shores of Florida, exploring most of the coastal regions and some of the interior. At the time, there were an estimated 100,000 Native Americans living there.

1514 Ponce de León is granted a patent, empowering him to colonize the island of Bimini and the island of Florida. Diego Velázquez becomes a virtual feudal lord of Cuba, and establishes what are to become Cuba's two largest cities, Santiago and Havana. He also directs the explorations of the Mexican Gulf.

1519 Alonso Alvarez de Pineda claims Texas for Spain. Hernán Cortés lands on the coast of Veracruz, Mexico.

1520s Continuing their maritime adventures, the Spanish explorers cruise along the northern shore of the Gulf of Mexico, seeing Alabama, Mississippi, and Texas, and also sailing up the Atlantic coast to the Carolinas.

1536 In Mexico City rumors were that Cabeza de Vaca and his companions had discovered cities laden with gold and silver in the American Southwest, reviving the legend of the Seven Cities, which dated from the Moorish invasion of the Iberian Peninsula.

1537 Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca returns to Spain and spends some three years writing La relación, an account of his wanderings in the North American continent. Published in 1542, La relación is a document of inestimable value because of the many first descriptions about the flora, fauna, and inhabitants of what was to become part of the United States.

1539 May 18. From Havana, Cuba, Hernando de Soto sets sail for Florida and begins exploring the present-day U.S. Southeast

DO I NEED TO GO ON... Instead go to this website to learn about Hispanic history... http://www.galegroup.com/free_resources/chh/timeline/

10 posted on 10/06/2003 11:05:10 AM PDT by Porterville
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To: chance33_98
They would do us a big favor, if they would publish
the parks where wetbacks have fouled the environment
and are a threat to tourists.
11 posted on 10/06/2003 12:21:39 PM PDT by upcountryhorseman
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To: chance33_98
Hey,Park Service.
Most of those people and places are Spanish,not hispanic,you frickin'morons.
12 posted on 10/06/2003 1:26:37 PM PDT by Redcoat LI ("If you're going to shoot,shoot,don't talk" Tuco BenedictoPacifico Juan Maria Ramirez)
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To: Porterville
How would you like to be called Cabeza de Vaca (Head of Cow)?

I guess that's better that A$$ of Horse...

13 posted on 10/06/2003 1:53:30 PM PDT by snopercod ("leader" is English for "führer")
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To: chance33_98
They forgot Piedras Blancas North of San Simeon, CA.
14 posted on 10/06/2003 1:54:46 PM PDT by snopercod ("leader" is English for "führer")
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To: *immigrant_list; A Navy Vet; Lion Den Dan; Free the USA; Libertarianize the GOP; madfly; B4Ranch; ..
ping
15 posted on 10/07/2003 9:05:26 AM PDT by gubamyster
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To: gubamyster; chance33_98




Looks like our leaders can't get a civil war fast enough.


16 posted on 10/07/2003 9:20:09 AM PDT by Sabertooth (No Drivers' Licences for Illegal Aliens. Petition SB60. http://www.saveourlicense.com/n_home.htm)
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To: SpaceBar
The only artifacts of spanish heritage visible in the parks and recreation areas in New Mexico are broken beer bottles, trash, and public property defaced with spray paint.
You live here too?
17 posted on 10/07/2003 9:22:46 AM PDT by wjcsux
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To: gubamyster
This is probably the big push for open borders. Amnesty.
18 posted on 10/07/2003 9:26:34 AM PDT by texastoo
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To: chance33_98
Freakin idiots ought to come and remove some of the "Hispanic heritage" grafiti off some of the walls in my hometown before they start this nonsense.
19 posted on 10/07/2003 4:37:05 PM PDT by junta (Xenophobia a perfectly reasonable response to the feckless stupidity of globalism.)
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