Don fermin tanguis biography
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List of family unit from San Juan, Puerto Rico
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Magical Water Circuit, a beautiful set of fountains located in Lima
The Magical Water Circuit, also known as the Parque de las Aguas, was inaugurated on July 26, , and is located within the Parque de la Reserva in the Cercado de Lima district. This tourist attraction stands out for the unique and incredible shows it offers to visitors in its thirteen cybernetic fountains, equipped with the highest technology for handling music, water, sound, and laser lights.
Moreover, it holds the Guinness World Record for being the “Tallest Fountain Complex in the World located in a public park”. Its construction marked the beginning of a project to reclaim valuable public spaces in the city of Lima.
Next, we will tell you a bit more about its cybernetic fountains.
● Magic fountain: it has 8 small Sevillian fountains and amazes with its majestic geyser over 80 meters high.
● Fantasy fountain: the largest in the circuit. Images of Peru's cultural richness are projected on its enormous water screen.
● Illusion fountain: releases small, continuous jets of water that simulate multicolored circular waterfalls.
● Visitable dome fountain: visitors can enter this fountain without getting wet as water jets emerge from the edge towards the
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Fermín Tangüis
Puerto Rican businessman
Fermín Tangüis | |
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developer of the Tanguis cotton seed which saved Peru's cotton industry. | |
| Born | March 29, San Juan, Puerto Rico |
| Died | August 24, () (aged79) Lima, Peru |
Fermín Tangüis (March 29, – August 24, ), was a Puerto Rican businessman, farmer, and scientist who developed the seed that would eventually produce the Tanguis cotton in Peru and save that nation's cotton industry.
Early years
[edit]Tangüis' father, Henri Tangüis, emigrated from France to San Juan, Puerto Rico, where he met and married a young Spanish Puerto Rican girl by the name of Justa Uncal. Tangüis was born in San Juan, the capital of Puerto Rico, and there he received his primary and secondary education. Tangüis moved to Cuba to pursue a university degree; however when the Ten Years' War (–) broke out in that island, he decided that it would be best to move to South America.[1]
He moved to Lima, Peru in , when he was 22 years old and worked as a mercantile accountant. Tangüis went on to work in the mines of Castrovirreyna and later established his own businesses in Ayacucho and in Huancavelica. In July , he married Isabel Novoa and in , at the age of 39, he purchased land in Valle de Pisco and established a plantation