Murua
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Murua or Murúa is a Basque
surname and may refer to:
Basque people
The Basques as an ethnic group, primarily inhabit an area traditionally known as the Basque Country , a region that is located around the western end of the Pyrenees on the coast of the Bay of Biscay and straddles parts of north-central Spain and south-western France.The Basques are known in the...
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- Ainhoa MuruaAinhoa MurúaAinhoa Murúa Zubizarreta is a Basque triathlete who competed for Spain.Murúa participated in the second Olympic triathlon at the 2004 Summer Olympics. She took twenty-fourth place with a total time of 2:09:27.91....
- Fray Martin de MuruaFray Martín de MurúaFray Martín de Murúa, was a Basque Mercedarian friar and chronicler. He is best known for his work Historia general del Piru , which is considered the earliest illustrated history of Peru....
(c.1525-c.1618), Mercedarian missionary to colonial Peru and author of Historia general del Piru (1616) - Lautaro MurúaLautaro MurúaLautaro Murúa was a Chilean-born Argentine actor, film director, and screenwriter. He is one of the best known actors in the Cinema of Argentina....
- ChileChileChile ,officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long, narrow coastal strip between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far...
an film actor.