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  • Cesar Duarte were also found Friday painted on blankets known as "mantas" in Ciudad Juarez, a city across the border from El Paso, Texas.

    Mexican marines kill 15 cartel suspects in battle 2011

  • Cesar Duarte were also found Friday painted on blankets known as "mantas" in Ciudad Juarez, a city across the border from El Paso, Texas.

    Mexican marines kill 15 cartel suspects in battle 2011

  • Things called mantas, that looked like sable flying versions of the rays of tropical seas, symbiotes of the windwhales, with wingspans of thirty to fifty feet, were the most dramatic and numerous of his nonhuman companions.

    The Silver Spike Cook, Glen 1989

  • Fantastic diving; there's everything from mantas to whale sharks.

    William Heinecke's Favorite Holidays Chun Han Wong 2011

  • "We also saw jacks, trevally, dogtooth tuna, bumphead parrotfish, huge schools of batfish and barracuda, sting rays and mantas."

    Dive Time 2009

  • I lack the patience to carefully examine a fan coral for pygmy seahorses no bigger than my little fingernail, but there's enough of the big and dramatic to keep me astonished: the orb-like shimmering jellyfish, the wrasses, turtles and mantas, the epaulette sharks that "walk" on their fins, the unworldly-appearing frogfish or the schools of silver barracuda.

    Dive Time 2009

  • All the souvenir shops are crammed with leather goods, hats, tee-shirts with funny and not-so-funny sayings, sandals (huaraches), blankets (mantas or colchas), paintings and knick-knacks of every imaginable description.

    Tijuana: a taste of Mexico - part 3 2006

  • All the souvenir shops are crammed with leather goods, hats, tee-shirts with funny and not-so-funny sayings, sandals (huaraches), blankets (mantas or colchas), paintings and knick-knacks of every imaginable description.

    Tijuana: a taste of Mexico - part 3 2006

  • On the walk back I saw some manta rays (at least I think they were mantas; they were definitely rays) swimming together.

    November 2006 2006

  • Contra o frio da noite bastam cobertores, mantas ou agasalhos? ou chegam ideias que galvanizam o espírito?

    Contra o frio da noite Artur 2007

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