656:, Coahuila, Mexico, in the heart of the Laguna Region, on the peripheral road leading to Gomez Palacio, Durango, and the road to Santa Fe has an area of 37 ha (91 acres) of which about 2.5 are used in university facilities and the rest for agricultural activities and research practice. It consists of 42 classrooms, 20 laboratories, cubicles for teachers, sports facilities, dining room, a central library and an auditorium with capacity for 150 people. Student support services are available as internship, residency feminine, dining, transportation, nursing, language center, computer center and sports
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Antonio Narro Agrarian Autonomous University (UAAAN) was founded on March 4, 1923, after the philanthropist Antonio Narro Rodríguez donated his Buenavista Estate for a public agricultural university, which became the "Regional School of Agriculture Antonio Narro". The main objective of this
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568:(Graduate Office) directs graduate programs, including the Professional Master's in Seed Technology, and the Master's and Doctorates in Plant Breeding, Agrarian Sciences, Production Systems Engineering, Animal Sciences, and Plant Protection or Agricultural Parasitology.
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Climate at the main (Saltillo) campus of the UAAAN is dry semicalid; there are occasional freezes. Temperatures seldom drop below −2 °C (28 °F) (once in some years). Annual rainfall is about 300 mm (12 in). Natural vegetation is short,
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Universidad Autónoma Agraria Antonio Narro in Spanish (
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