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¿Trump va en serio con cambiar el nombre del Golfo de México al ‘Golfo de América’? Esto explica una geógrafa

  • Written by Innisfree McKinnon, Associate Professor of Geography, University of Wisconsin-Stout
imageConocido como la Montaña McKinley hasta 2015, el nombre actual de Denali refleja lo que los nativos de Alaska llaman a la montaña. Arterra/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

La orden ejecutiva del presidente Donald Trump de cambiar el nombre del Golfo de México y del Denali de Alaska, el pico más alto del país...

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