Loreto
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- Loreto, Santiago del EsteroLoreto, Santiago del EsteroLoreto is a city in the southwest of the province of Santiago del Estero, Argentina. It has 9,854 inhabitants as per the , and is the head town of the Loreto Department. It is located 59 km south from the provincial capital Santiago del Estero, on National Route 9....
, Argentina - Loreto (Misiones)Loreto (Misiones)Loreto is a village and municipality in Misiones Province in northeastern Argentina.-References:...
, village and municipality in Misiones Province, Argentina - Loreto, BeniLoreto, BeniLoreto is a town in the Beni Department in northern Bolivia. It is the capital of the Marbán Province and Loreto Municipality .-External links:*...
, Bolivia - Loreto (Maranhão)Loreto (Maranhão)Loreto is a town and municipality in the state of Maranhão in the Northeast region of Brazil.-References:...
, Brazil - Loreto, Marche, Italy, home of the Basilica della Santa Casa after which the other shrines are named
- Loreto AprutinoLoreto AprutinoLoreto Aprutino is a comune and town in the Province of Pescara in the Abruzzo region of central Italy.-History:The Roman town on this site was called Laurentum, because of the many bay laurels that grew in the area. The modern town grew up around a castle and Benedictine abbey in the 11th century...
, Pescara, Italy - Loreto, Baja California SurLoreto, Baja California SurLoreto was the first Spanish settlement on the Baja California Peninsula. It served as the capital of Las Californias from 1697 to 1777, and is the current seat of the municipality of Loreto in the Mexican state of Baja California Sur...
, Mexico - Loreto (municipality)Loreto (municipality)Loreto is a municipality of the Mexican state of Baja California Sur. It was created in 1992 from the partition of the neighboring Comondú Municipality. The municipal seat is in the town of Loreto, which was the former capital of Las Californias during Spanish colonial times.The 2010 census...
, Baja California Sur, Mexico - Loreto, ZacatecasLoreto, ZacatecasLoreto is a town in Loreto Municipality, Zacatecas. The town is the seventh-largest community in the state, with a 2005 census population of 22,085 inhabitants, while the municipality of which it serves as municipal seat had a population of 43,411...
, Mexico - Loreto RegionLoreto RegionLoreto is Peru's northernmost region. Covering almost one-third of Peru's territory, Loreto is by far the nation's largest region and also one of the most sparsely populated ones, due to its remote location in the Amazon Rainforest...
, Peru- Loreto ProvinceLoreto ProvinceThe Loreto Province is one of the seven provinces in the Loreto Region of Peru. The capital of the province is the historic town of Nauta. This biologically and culturally diverse region includes the Pacaya–Samiria National Reservation, and is also home to many indigenous peoples, , as well as...
, Peru
- Loreto Province
- Loreto, Agusan del SurLoreto, Agusan del SurLoreto is a 3rd class municipality in the province of Agusan del Sur, Philippines. According to the 2000 census, it has a population of 31,365 people in 5,572 households.-Barangays:Loreto is politically subdivided into 17 barangays.* Binucayan* Johnson...
, Philippines - Loreto, Dinagat Islands, Philippines
- Loreto, Switzerland, a district of Lugano, Switzerland
- Loreto CantonLoreto CantonLoreto Canton is a canton of Ecuador, located in the Orellana Province. Its capital is the town of Loreto. Its population at the 2001 census was 13,462....
, a canton in Orellana Province, Ecuador- Loreto, Ecuador, its capital
Other
- Loreto (Milan Metro)Loreto (Milan Metro)Loreto is a subway station on the Line 1 of Milan Metro, opened in 1964. Since 1969, the station is a node of interchange with the Line 2.The station is located in Loreto Square within the municipal area of Milan. It's a very busy station, and the municipality has a plan for its expansion...
, a subway station on the Line 1 of Milan Metro - Nicolás del CampoNicolás del CampoNicolás Francisco Cristóbal del Campo, Marquis of Loreto was a Spanish politician and soldier who occupied several posts in the Spanish American colonies, mainly in the River Plate area.-Biography:...
(full name "Nicolás Francisco Cristóbal del Campo, Marquis of Loreto"), sometimes referred to as "Viceroy Loreto" - Loreto Publications, a Roman Catholic publisher
See also
- Basilica della Santa Casa Holy House of Loreto
- Sisters of LoretoSisters of LoretoThe Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary, more commonly known as the Loreto Sisters , is a women's Catholic religious order founded by an Englishwoman, Mary Ward, in 1609 at Saint-Omer in northern France...
, a women's Catholic religious order founded by an Englishwoman, Mary Ward, in 1609 - Loretto (disambiguation)
- Litany of Loreto
- Notre Dame de LoretteNotre Dame de LoretteNotre Dame de Lorette is the name of a ridge, basilica, and French national cemetery northwest of Arras at the village of Ablain-Saint-Nazaire...
, the name of a ridge, basilica, and French national cemetery northwest of Arras at the village of Ablain-Saint-Nazaire