User:DO'Neil/Latin America

Here is a list of all the contributions I've made to Wikipedia about or relating to Latin America. For the sake of simplicity, I'm going to pretend that Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana are Latin American. ;-)

People are listed by the surname they were (or are) most commonly called by.

Spanish Names
In Spanish speaking countries, people have two surnames, normally the father's first surname followed by the mother's. The first surname is by far the most common when used to referring to a person. Daniel Ortega Saavedra is nearly always just referred to as Daniel Ortega. A notable exception is Pablo Ruiz Picasso.

Portuguese Names
The surname system in Portuguese speaking countries is the exact opposite of the Spanish system! António de Oliveira Salazar is nearly always called António Salazar.

Be careful never to confuse these. After all, who is Getúlio Dornelles or Fidel Ruz?

Geography People Culture Airports History Miscellaneous
 * Amazonas, Brazil significant contribution
 * Brokopondo started
 * Camagüey Province rewritten entirely
 * Ceará rewritten entirely
 * Ciego de Ávila Province rewritten entirely
 * Cienfuegos Province rewritten entirely
 * Commewijne started
 * Coronie started
 * Essequibo River started
 * Demerara River started
 * Districts of Suriname started
 * Fordlândia started
 * Granma Province rewritten entirely
 * Guantánamo Province rewritten entirely
 * Gulf of Honduras started
 * La Habana Province significant contribution
 * Huatabampo started
 * Içá River rewritten entirely
 * Lake Valencia started
 * Las Tunas Province rewritten entirely
 * Marowijne started
 * Matanzas Province rewritten entirely
 * Template:Districts of Suriname started
 * Template:Honduras started
 * Template:Provinces of Cuba started
 * Mexican Empire rewritten entirely
 * Nickerie started
 * Nombre de Dios started
 * Para, Suriname started
 * Paraíba rewritten entirely
 * Paramaribo district started
 * Piauí significant contribution
 * Pinar del Río Province rewritten entirely
 * Pucallpa significant contribution
 * Rio Grande do Norte rewritten entirely
 * Rondônia rewritten entirely
 * Sancti Spíritus Province rewritten entirely
 * Santa Cruz, Bolivia started
 * Santiago de Cuba Province significant contribution
 * Saramacca started
 * Sergipe rewritten entirely
 * Sipaliwini started
 * Tocantins (state) rewritten entirely
 * Villa Clara rewritten entirely
 * Wanica started
 * Windward Passage started
 * Fernando Belaúnde Terry rewritten entirely
 * Ibrahim Ferrer started
 * Nuño Guzmán de Beltran started
 * Juan Montalvo started
 * Arnaldo Ochoa started
 * Cristóbal de Olid completely rewritten
 * Francisco de Orellana significant contribution
 * Felipe Quispe rewritten entirely
 * Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez started
 * Culture of Colombia rewritten entirely
 * Culture of Cuba started
 * Culture of Ecuador started
 * Culture of Honduras started
 * Himno Istmeño significant contribution
 * La Cucaracha started
 * Miskito started
 * Mozambique (music) started
 * Alfonso Bonilla Aragón International Airport started
 * Augusto C. Sandino International Airport started
 * Don Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla International Airport rewritten entirely
 * Guarulhos International Airport started
 * Juana Azurduy de Padilla International Airport started
 * La Aurora International Airport started
 * Olaya Herrera Airport started
 * Simón Bolívar International Airport started
 * Toncontin International Airport started
 * Irish immigration to Puerto Rico started
 * Moncada Barracks started
 * Second Battle of Guararapes started
 * Comités de Defensa de la Revolución started
 * OSPAAAL started
 * Tricontinental started