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Definition: Durango |
DurangoNoun1. A city in north central Mexico; mining center. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: DurangoSynonym: Victoria de Durango (n). (additional references) |
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Screenplays | The Durango '95 purred away a real horrowshow. (A Clockwork Orange; writing credit: Stanley Kubrick) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Paga o muori Arriva Durango (1972) Un Treno per Durango (1967) Gun Duel in Durango (1957) Rough Riders of Durango (1951) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Sheepherder near Durango, Colorado. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Pack train of sheepherder near Durango, Colorado. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Roundhouse and turntable of railroad at Durango, Colorado. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Wheels used on railway coaches and cars. Railroad shops at Durango, Colorado. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Railroad yards. Durango, Colorado. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Locomotives in roundhouse. Durango. Colorado. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Motor locomotive of railroad equiped with snow plow. Durango, Colorado. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Residential district of Durango, Colorado. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Durango, Colorado. Residential district. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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Business | Residences having air conditioning equipment are located primarily in the Mexican states of Sonora, Sinaloa, Nayarit, Jalisco, Colima, Jalisco, Guerrero, Tamaulipas, Veracruz, Campeche, Yucatan, and Quintana Roo. Other states, such as Nuevo Leon, Coahuila, Durango, Chihuahua and the Northern portion of Sonora have extreme climates so a significant portion of residences have air conditioning and/or heating equipment. (references) | |
Economic History | Mexico | Its principal cites are Gomez Palacio (270,000 pop.) and Durango (490,000 pop.), the capital of the state. (references) |
Mexico | DURANGO, located in north central Mexico, is a center for gold and silver mining, agriculture, and paper production. (references) | |
Mexico | The U.S. Commercial Service in Monterrey covers north and northeast Mexico, including the states of Chihuahua, Coahuila, Durango, San Luis Potosi, Tamaulipas, and Nuevo Leon. (references) | |
Human Rights | Mexico | There were no developments in the investigation into the presumed suicide of Jose Manuel Urbina, who was found drowned in a Durango state security facility in June 2000. According to the Guerrero State Human Rights Commission, in 1999 Angel Guillermo Martinez Gonzalez and his wife, Virginia Montes Gonzalez, were arrested and imprisoned in connection with a 1999 attack on Acapulco City councilor-elect Marco Antonio Lopez Garcia and his family. (references) |
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| Country | Name |
| USA | Durango Apparel Inc. |
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1. Durango, CO (city, FIPS 22035) 2. Durango, IA (city, FIPS 22935) |
Expression using "Durango": Victoria de Durango. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "Durango"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | 杜兰戈. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | urangoday | ||||
Misspellings | |
"Durango" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Daryanto, Dibango, durano, Murango, Rurange, Tarango. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: aground. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-g-n-o-r-u" | |
-1 letter: around, dragon, ground, ourang. | |
-2 letters: adorn, argon, donga, doura, gonad, gourd, grand, groan, guano, guard, orang, organ, radon, round. | |
-3 letters: agon, dago, dang, darn, dona, dong, dour, drag, drug, dung, dura, durn, duro, gaud, gaun, gaur, gnar, goad, grad, gran, guan, guar, nard, nurd, orad, rand, rang, road, roan, ruga, rung, undo. | |
-4 letters: ado. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-g-n-o-r-u" | |
+1 letter: gourmand, rigaudon. | |
+2 letters: dangerous, gourmands, noseguard, outdaring, outranged, rigaudons. | |
+3 letters: adjourning, background, campground, clangoured, encouraged, fairground, graduation, groundmass, groundsman, gynandrous, jaguarondi, noseguards, outdrawing, outreading, outtrading, playground, sandgrouse, uphoarding. | |
+4 letters: aboveground, androgynous, backgrounds, beardtongue, campgrounds, dangerously, dreadnought, fairgrounds, gourmandise, gourmandism, gourmandize, graduations, groundwater, handwrought, jaguarondis, nongraduate, outdragging, outdreaming, playgrounds, sandgrouses, squadroning, unorganized. | |
+5 letters: backgrounded, backgrounder, battleground, beardtongues, deregulation, discouraging, dreadnoughts, edulcorating, endeavouring, fluoridating, gourmandises, gourmandisms, gourmandized, gourmandizes, groundmasses, groundwaters, nongraduates, nonregulated, outbargained, outgeneraled, outorganized, outspreading, surfboarding, undercoating, unglamorized, unprogrammed. | |
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