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Record 1 2025-06-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Place Names (outside Canada)
Universal entry(ies)
GT-BV
classification system code, see observation
OBS

A department of Guatemala.

OBS

GT-BV: code recognized by ISO.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Toponymes (hors Canada)
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
GT-BV
classification system code, see observation
OBS

Département du Guatémala.

OBS

GT-BV : code reconnu par l'ISO.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Topónimos (fuera de Canadá)
Entrada(s) universal(es)
GT-BV
classification system code, see observation
OBS

Departamento de Guatemala.

OBS

GT-BV: código reconocido por ISO.

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Record 2 2025-06-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Place Names (outside Canada)
Universal entry(ies)
MX-BCN
classification system code, see observation
OBS

A state of Mexico.

OBS

MX-BCN: code recognized by ISO.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Toponymes (hors Canada)
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
MX-BCN
classification system code, see observation
OBS

État du Mexique.

OBS

MX-BCN : code reconnu par l'ISO.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Topónimos (fuera de Canadá)
Entrada(s) universal(es)
MX-BCN
classification system code, see observation
OBS

Estado de México.

OBS

MX-BCN: code reconnu par l'ISO.

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Record 3 2025-06-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Place Names (outside Canada)
Universal entry(ies)
MX-BCS
classification system code, see observation
OBS

A state of Mexico.

OBS

MX-BCS: code recognized by ISO.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Toponymes (hors Canada)
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
MX-BCS
classification system code, see observation
OBS

État du Mexique.

OBS

MX-BCS : code reconnu par l'ISO.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Topónimos (fuera de Canadá)
Entrada(s) universal(es)
MX-BCS
classification system code, see observation
OBS

Estado de México.

OBS

MX-BCS: código reconocido por ISO.

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Record 4 2023-01-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Geomorphology and Geomorphogeny
  • Climatology
CONT

A fog desert is a type of desert where fog drip supplies the majority of moisture needed by animal and plant life. Examples of fog deserts include the Atacama Desert of coastal Chile and Peru, the Baja California Desert of Mexico, the Namib Desert in Namibia, the Arabian Peninsula coastal fog desert, and a manmade instance within Biosphere 2, an artificial closed ecosphere in Arizona.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Géomorphologie et géomorphogénie
  • Climatologie
CONT

Les déserts côtiers se trouvent sur la côte ouest de l'Afrique et en Amérique du Sud, à proximité du tropique du Cancer et du tropique du Capricorne. Ils comprennent le désert côtier du Sahara occidental, la côte squelette de la Namibie et de l'Angola, et le désert d'Atacama au Chili.

Spanish

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Record 5 2023-01-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Fish
Universal entry(ies)
Sebastes alutus
Latin
CONT

Pacific ocean perch is not a true perch, but rather a beautiful vibrant red rockfish that dwells on rocky seafloor habitats from the Bering Sea to Baja California. Commonly known as POPs, these rockfish are one of the most important commercial species in the northeast pacific.

OBS

A fish of the family Scorpaenidae.

OBS

Pacific ocean perch: trade name recommended by the "Comité de normalisation de la terminologie des pêches commerciales" and by Fisheries and Oceans Canada.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Poissons
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
Sebastes alutus
Latin
OBS

Poisson de la famille des Scorpédinés.

OBS

sébaste à longue mâchoire : nom français commercial normalisé par le Comité de normalisation de la terminologie des pêches commerciales.

Spanish

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Record 6 2021-08-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Oceanography
  • Meteorological Forecasting, Data Measurement and Analysis
CONT

Described first by [the] University of Washington climate scientist... The Blob is a large body of water sitting off the west coast, stretching from the American state of Alaska all the way to Baja California, Mexico.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Océanographie
  • Prévisions météorologiques et mesure et analyse des données
CONT

Le Blob est le nom donné à une masse d'eau chaude au large de la côte ouest canadienne et qui contribue depuis deux ans à aggraver les conditions propices aux sécheresses, qui pourraient devenir la nouvelle norme dans la région.

Spanish

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Record 7 2021-04-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Place Names (outside Canada)
OBS

A municipality of Puerto Rico.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Toponymes (hors Canada)
OBS

Municipalité de Porto Rico.

Spanish

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Record 8 2021-04-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Place Names (outside Canada)
OBS

A municipality of Puerto Rico.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Toponymes (hors Canada)
OBS

Municipalité de Porto Rico.

Spanish

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Record 9 2021-04-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Place Names (outside Canada)
OBS

A municipality of Puerto Rico.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Toponymes (hors Canada)
OBS

Municipalité de Porto Rico.

Spanish

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Record 10 2020-01-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Place Names (outside Canada)
OBS

A peninsula in northwestern Mexico between the Pacific and the Gulf of California ...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Toponymes (hors Canada)
OBS

Longue péninsule montagneuse et aride du Mexique au sud de la Californie […], entre le Pacifique et le golfe de Californie.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Topónimos (fuera de Canadá)
OBS

Península montañosa y árida del [noroeste] de México, que se extiende a lo largo de 1260 km, entre el Pacífico y el golfo de California […]

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Record 11 2016-02-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Botany
Universal entry(ies)
Pinus lambertiana
Latin
OBS

Pinus lambertiana Dougl. ;a tall tree of the family Pinaceae(Pine family) Habitat : Oregon to Baja California.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Botanique
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
Pinus lambertiana
Latin
OBS

Grand arbre de la famille des Pinacées.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Botánica
Entrada(s) universal(es)
Pinus lambertiana
Latin
OBS

Arból grande de la familia de las pinaceas.

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Record 12 2016-02-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Fish
Universal entry(ies)
Citharichthys sordidus
Latin
DEF

A flatfish with the strong colour and eyes on the left side of the body, the length of the lower eye greater than that of the snout, and a high body ridge above the lower eye. No striking light and dark bands on the unpaired fins. [This fish is distributed] from Baja California to the Bering Sea at depths down to 167 fathoms(306m) but [it is] more common in shallow water.

OBS

A fish of the family Boteridae.

Key term(s)
  • Pacific sand dab

French

Domaine(s)
  • Poissons
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
Citharichthys sordidus
Latin
OBS

Poisson de la famille des Bothidae.

Spanish

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Record 13 2016-02-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Botany
Universal entry(ies)
Mesembryanthemum aequilaterale
Latin
Mesembryanthemum chilense
Latin
OBS

Aizoceae family.

OBS

Succulent subshrub, coastal Oregon to Baja California, Chile.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Botanique
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
Mesembryanthemum aequilaterale
Latin
Mesembryanthemum chilense
Latin
OBS

Propositions du musée canadien de la nature.

Spanish

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Record 14 2013-07-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Symptoms (Medicine)
  • Musculoskeletal System
DEF

An abnormally low patella ...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Symptômes (Médecine)
  • Appareil locomoteur (Médecine)
DEF

Rotule [située] trop bas [...]

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Síntomas (Medicina)
  • Sistema musculoesquelético (Medicina)
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Record 15 2013-05-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Seed Plants (Spermatophyta)
Universal entry(ies)
Pachycereus pecten-aboriginum
Latin
OBS

A waxy-green column cactus from Baja California of the family Cactaceae.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Plantes à graines (Spermatophyta)
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
Pachycereus pecten-aboriginum
Latin
OBS

Pachycereus pecten-aboriginum : Il n'y a pas de commun français pour désigner cette espèce de cactus.

Spanish

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Record 16 2011-08-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Place Names (outside Canada)
DEF

A western state of U. S. A., bounded on north by Oregon, on east by Nevada and Arizona, on south by Mexican state of Baja California, and on west by the Pacific Ocean.

OBS

The State of California became the 31st state of the United States of America in 1850.

OBS

Nicknames: Golden State, also, El Dorado.

OBS

Capital: Sacramento. Chief cities: Los Angeles, San Francisco.

OBS

CA: The ISO two-letter code to be used only as post symbol in addresses or for data in rows or columns where the number of characters is restricted.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Toponymes (hors Canada)
DEF

État du Sud-Ouest des États-Unis, situé sur la côte du Pacifique et à la frontière du Mexique.

OBS

Histoire : Découverte en 1542 et colonisée par les Espagnols en 1769, la Californie fut annexée par le Mexique en 1822. Le traité de Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848) céda la Haute-Californie aux États-Unis.

OBS

L'État de la Californie est devenu le 31e État des États-Unis d'Amérique en 1850.

OBS

Capitale : Sacramento.

OBS

CA : Code ISO à deux lettres à n'utiliser que comme indicatif de la poste pour l'adressage ou dans les tableaux où les données figurent en colonnes et dans un nombre limité de caractères

Spanish

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Record 17 2010-02-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • International Bodies and Committees
  • Biological Sciences

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités internationaux
  • Sciences biologiques

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Organismos y comités internacionales
  • Ciencias biológicas
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Record 18 2008-11-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Seed Plants (Spermatophyta)
Universal entry(ies)
Alnus rhombifolia
Latin
CONT

Alnus rhombifolia is the common alder throughout the dry Mediterranean climatic zone of coastal western United States. Mexican populations are not known, but because A. rhombifolia has been collected as far south as San Diego, California, it should be expected in adjacent Baja California.

OBS

A plant of the family Betulaceae.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Plantes à graines (Spermatophyta)
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
Alnus rhombifolia
Latin
OBS

Plante de la famille des Betulaceae.

Spanish

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Record 19 2008-09-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tectonics
CONT

The Pacific-North American plate boundary in southern California and northern Baja, Mexico undergoes a complex transition from crustal spreading in the Gulf of California to right-lateral transform motion along the San Andreas and associated fault systems.

CONT

Stresses related to plate convergence and subsequent right-lateral transform movement have produced several large folds and numerous faults that constitute traps for hydrocarbons within the Great Valley.

OBS

right-lateral transform: term used at Natural Resources Canada - Earth Sciences Sector.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tectonique
OBS

mouvement transformant dextre : terme en usage à Ressources naturelles Canada - Secteur des sciences de la Terre.

Spanish

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Record 20 2006-11-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mineralogy
  • Petrography
CONT

Secondary mineral assemblages in Eocene volcanic and volcaniclastic rocks of the Toa Baja drill hole progressively change as a function of depth. Four metamorphic zones are delineated with increasing depth : Ca-clinoptilolite {yields} heulandite {yields} laumontite {yields} prehnite-pumpellyite zone. The deepest belongs to the prehnite-pumpellyite facies, whereas the three zones at shallower depths(< 2, 350 m) belong to the zeolite facies.

OBS

prehnite-pumpellyite zone: term used at Natural Resources Canada - Earth Sciences Sector.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Minéralogie
  • Pétrographie
OBS

zone à prehnite et pumpellyite : terme en usage à Ressources naturelles Canada - Secteur des sciences de la Terre.

Key term(s)
  • zone à prehnite-pumpellyite

Spanish

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Record 21 2005-08-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paleontology
  • Cartography
DEF

The position of the Earth’s equator in the geologic past as defined for a specific geologic period and based on geologic evidence such as paleomagnetic measurements, oxygen-isotope ratios, fauna and flora, distribution of evaporites, reefs, coal deposits, and tillites.

CONT

e. g. the Ordovician paleoequator for North America, running from the southern tip of Baja California to the north end of Greenland. Paleoequators are great circles that were formerly normal to the axis of rotation but are now displaced and vary from continent to continent and plate to plate.

CONT

Both Kupferschiefer- and redbed-type sedimentary copper deposits occur in many cases in rocks that were deposited in arid and semi-arid areas within 20 to 30° of the paleoequator ...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Paléontologie
  • Cartographie

Spanish

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Record 22 1997-01-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Place Names (outside Canada)
OBS

Town in Bács-Kiskun county, south Hungary

French

Domaine(s)
  • Toponymes (hors Canada)
OBS

Ville du sud de la Hongrie, en bordure du Grand Alföld, sur le petit bras du Danube

Spanish

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Record 23 1994-01-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psycho-, Socio- and Ethnolinguistics
DEF

A Yuman language spoken by the Kiliwa, an Indian people living in northern Lower California(Baja California Norte), Mexico.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psycho-, socio- et ethnolinguistique
DEF

Langue yuma parlée par les Kiliwa, peuple indien habitant au nord de la Basse-Californie (Baja California Norte), au Mexique.

Spanish

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