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  2. International Cartographic Association - Wikipedia

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    The International Cartographic Association ( ICA) ( French: Association Cartographique Internationale, ACI) is an organization formed of national member organizations, to provide a forum for issues and techniques in cartography and geographic information science (GIScience). ICA was founded on June 9, 1959, in Bern, Switzerland. [1]

  3. Paracas National Reserve - Wikipedia

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    Official name. Paracas. Designated. 30 March 1992. Reference no. 545 [1] Paracas National Reserve is a protected area located in the region of Ica, Peru and protects desert and marine ecosystems for their conservation and sustainable use. [2] There are also archaeological remains of the Paracas culture inside the reserve.

  4. List of highest mountains on Earth - Wikipedia

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    Almost all mountains in the list are located in the Himalaya and Karakoram ranges to the south and west of the Tibetan plateau. All peaks 7,000 m (23,000 ft) or higher are located in East, Central or South Asia in a rectangle edged by Noshaq (7,492 m or 24,580 ft) on the Afghanistan–Pakistan border in the west, Jengish Chokusu (Tuōmù'ěr Fēng, 7,439 m or 24,406 ft) on the Kyrgyzstan ...

  5. Ica, Peru - Wikipedia

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    Ica ( Spanish pronunciation: [ˈika]) ( Quechua: Ika) is a city and the capital of the Department of Ica in southern Peru. While the area was long inhabited by varying cultures of indigenous peoples, the Spanish conquistador Jerónimo Luis de Cabrera claimed its founding in 1563. As of the 2017 census, it had a population of over 282,407.

  6. Immigration and Checkpoints Authority - Wikipedia

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    Parent agency. Ministry of Home Affairs. Website. www .ica .gov .sg. The Immigration and Checkpoints Authority ( ICA) is a law enforcement agency within the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), the border control agency responsible for frontline border control operations at air, sea and rail ports in Singapore. [1] ICA was formed on 1 April 2003 ...

  7. List of mountain peaks of North America - Wikipedia

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    Mount Elbert is the highest summit of Colorado and the Rocky Mountains. Mount Rainier is the highest summit of Washington and the Cascade Range. Grays Peak in Colorado is the highest point on the Continental Divide in North America. Mount Shasta in California is the highest summit of the southern Cascade Range.

  8. Palpa Province - Wikipedia

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    11/km 2 (28/sq mi) UBIGEO. 1104. The Palpa Province is the smallest of five provinces of the Ica Region of Peru and the only landlocked province of the region. The capital of the province is the city of Palpa .

  9. Denali - Wikipedia

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    Denali is a granitic pluton, mostly pink quartz monzonite, lifted by tectonic pressure from the subduction of the Pacific Plate beneath the North American Plate; at the same time, the sedimentary material above and around the mountain was stripped away by erosion. [12] [13] The forces that lifted Denali also caused many deep earthquakes in ...