Valdez

Valdez or Valdés may refer to:

Places

  • Valdés, Asturias, a Spanish municipality in the province of Asturias, birthplace of the name
  • Valdez, Alaska, seaport city in Alaska
  • Valdez oil terminal, oil port in Valdez, Alaska, at the southern end of the Alaska Pipeline
  • Valdez, California, in Yolo County
  • Valdez, Esmeraldas, Ecuador
  • Valdez, Florida, a populated place in Volusia County, Florida
  • Valdes Island, one of the Gulf Islands located in the Strait of Georgia, British Columbia, Canada
  • Valdes Peninsula, peninsula along the Atlantic coast of Argentina
  • Other uses

  • Valdez (surname)
  • Exxon Valdez, oil tanker involved in an oil spill in Alaska in 1989
  • Survivors of the Valdez Oil Spill, organization that claims to represent the victims of the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill
  • Valdez (acrobatic), a back walkover that begins in a sitting position
  • Valdez Blockade, a protest by Alaskan fishermen in 1993
  • Valdés, Asturias

    Valdés is a Spanish municipality in the province of Asturias. Its capital is Luarca. It borders the Bay of Biscay on the north, the municipalities of Navia and Villayón on the west, Tineo on the south, Salas on the southeast, and Cudillero on the east. The rivers Esva, Negro and Barayo flow through the area. The national road N-634 is the main road serving the municipality.

    Politics

    Parishes

    Notable residents

  • Álvaro de Albornoz y Liminiana (1879-1954), politician
  • Severo Ochoa de Albornoz (1905-1993), biochemist, Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1959.
  • Gil Parrondo y Rico (b. 1921), set decorator
  • Margarita Salas Folgueras (b. 1938), scientist
  • External links

  • Townhall website (Spanish)
  • Federación Asturiana de Concejos (Asturian Federation of Municipalities) (Spanish)
  • Vivasturias (tourism page) (Spanish)
  • Images of Valdés
  • Valdez (surname)

    Valdez or Valdés is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Al Valdes, Canadian football player
  • Antonio Valdés y Fernández Bazán, Spanish naval officer for whom Valdez, Alaska is named
  • Bebo Valdés, (19182013), Cuban jazz composer and arranger
  • Cayetano Valdés y Flores (17671834), Spanish naval officer and explorer
  • Chayito Valdez (born 1945), Mexican musician and entertainer
  • Chucho Valdés, (born 1941), Cuban jazz musician and pianist
  • Cynthia Valdez (born 1987), Mexican rhythmic gymnast
  • Germán Valdés (19151973), Mexican actor, singer and comedian
  • Juan Dominguez y Valdez (1784 -?) military of Texas
  • Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés (14781557), Spanish historian
  • Jerónimo Valdés (1785–1855), Spanish general and governor of Cuba
  • Juan de Valdés (15001541), Spanish religious writer
  • Juan Meléndez Valdés (17541817), Spanish poet
  • Juan Valdez, a Costa Rican man who played a role in the Juan Valdez drinks Costa Rican coffee litigation
  • José Ramón Guizado Valdés (dates unknown), President of Panama 1955
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