Maria Maidana Vargas was born in 1891, in Oruro, Bolivia. She married Carlos Encinas Tapia from January 1923 to December 1923, in Cochabamba, Bolivia. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She died in 1925, in her hometown, at the age of 34.
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Bolivia loses the rubber-rich province of Acre to Brazil.
Rebellion by indigenous peoples.
Some characteristic forenames: Spanish Jose, Juan, Luis, Carlos, Manuel, Pedro, Francisco, Jorge, Jesus, Rafael, Miguel, Roberto. Portuguese Paulo, Ligia, Vasco, Catarina, Conceicao, Joao, Omero, Serafim, Wenceslao.
Spanish and Portuguese: habitational name, probably from Vargas in Cantabria, or a topographic name from vargas, plural of varga, a dialect term meaning ‘(thatched) hut, steep slope’ or ‘fenced pastureland which becomes waterlogged in winter’. Compare Bargas and De Vargas .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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