Pedro Molina est une localité argentine située dans le département de Guaymallén, province de Mendoza.
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The 1985 Mendoza earthquake occurred with medium intensity in the province of Mendoza, Argentina. It took place 7 minutes after midnight on 26 January 1985, and had a magnitude of 6.2 in the Richter scale. Its epicenter was located about 45 km southwest of Mendoza, the provincial capital, at the southern end of the region's pre-Andes range, and at a depth of 5 km. It was felt as grade VIII in the Mercalli intensity scale.
The earthquake caused 6 deaths and about 100 injuries. In the affected Greater Mendoza area, where most of the provincial population is concentrated, one third of the buildings were built of adobe. Some 23,000 homes were destroyed or condemned, though the actual number might have been larger. Estimates vary between 50,000 and 100,000 people left homeless.
A report released soon afterwards stated that the main reason why the event did not produce thousands of casualties was its short duration. In addition, the fact that it was a summer Friday night might have led many people to be sitting outside their homes, chatting with their neighbors, rather than sleeping inside.
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The Mendoza trolleybus system formed part of the public transport network in Mendoza, the capital city of Mendoza Province, Argentina. It was owned by the provincial government.
Opened in 1958, the system expanded to three routes by 1961 and remained relatively static in size and configuration until 1989, when a fourth route opened. Additional routes opened in 2004 and 2005, bringing the system to its maximum extent of six routes, which linked the city center with some of its metropolitan suburbs. However, one of the original routes was suspended from 2005 to 2011, and consequently no more than five routes were operating concurrently during that period.
In the 2010s, the provincial government entity that had always operated the system, the Empresa Provincial de Transportes de Mendoza, began to experience increasingly worsening financial problems, due in large part to difficulties in keeping its fleet of approximately 30-year-old trolleybuses operating reliably. Construction projects around the city, including work on the new Metrotranvía Mendoza light rail system, also disrupted trolleybus service, and the actual number of trolleybuses in service declined considerably.
At the end of 2016, the provincial legislature voted to dissolve EPTM entirely and replace it with a new company, the Sociedad de Transporte de Mendoza, and this change was put into effect on 1 January 2017. All remaining trolleybus service was suspended on 4 May 2017. A plan to make the suspension a permanent closure gave way to one calling for retention of trolleybus service on one route, the Parque route, with the other five routes permanently closed. The suspension lasted 16 months, and trolleybus service resumed on the Parque route in January 2019. Service was discontinued again, this time permanently, in February 2021. Dismantling of the overhead wires began in September 2023.
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The Universidad del Aconcagua, generally known as UDA, is a non-profit private university founded in 1965. It is located in the city of Mendoza, Argentina.
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The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Mendoza is in Argentina and is a metropolitan diocese. Its suffragan sees include Neuquén and San Rafael.
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The Juan Agustín Maza University is a private university located in Las Cañas district, Guaymallén department in Mendoza, Argentina. It was founded on May 4, 1960, as a non-profit organization.