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Los Pelambres desalination plant

A reverse osmosis seawater desalination plant at Punta Chungo port near Los Vilos, Chile, serving the Los Pelambres copper mine with 400 liters per second of industrial water.

Los Pepes

Los Pepes, acronym of People Persecuted by Pablo Escobar, was a Colombian vigilante coalition formed in January 1993 to destroy Pablo Escobar, who was killed in December 1993.

Los Perales Oil and Gas Field

Los Perales Oil and Gas Field is a producing conventional oil and gas field in Santa Cruz province, Argentina, near Las Heras, historically operated by YPF.

Los perros hambrientos

Los perros hambrientos is a 1939 novel by the Peruvian writer Ciro Alegría, interweaving the lives of a peasant family's sheepdogs with famine caused by drought in the sierra.

Los Plebes del Rancho

Los Plebes del Rancho, also known as Los Plebes del Rancho de Ariel Camacho, is a Mexican sierreño-banda group from Sinaloa, formed in 2013 by Ariel Camacho.

Los Pollos Hermanos

Los Pollos Hermanos ("The Chicken Brothers") is the fictional fried-chicken chain in Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, founded by Gus Fring, run as a meth front, filmed at Twisters in Albuquerque, with 2017 pop-ups and a $10 million fictional valuation.

Los Premios MTV Latinoamérica

Los Premios MTV Latinoamérica was MTV's annual video music awards ceremony for Latin America, held from 2002 to 2009 and known for its pink 'lengua' trophy.

Los Prisioneros

Los Prisioneros were a Chilean rock trio formed in Santiago in the early 1980s, known as the voice of the 80s for their critique of the Pinochet dictatorship.

Los Punsetes

Los Punsetes are a Spanish indie pop band formed in Madrid in 2004, named after Eduard Punset and known for sardonic songs sung by Ariadna Paniagua.

Los Ramones Gas Pipeline

Los Ramones Gas Pipeline is a Mexican natural gas transmission system designed to supply central Mexico. Phase I runs from the border in Tamaulipas, and Phase II extends to Guanajuato.

Los Rastrillos

Los Rastrillos are a Mexican reggae band formed in 1989 in Mexico City and a principal referent of the Mexican reggae movement, fusing reggae with Mexican music.

Los Ratones

Los Ratones: League of Legends team founded by Marc 'Caedrel' Lamont in November 2024, starring Baus, Nemesis, Crownie, Rekkles, and Velja. Won three NLC and two EMEA Masters titles, then became the first ERL team in the LEC at Versus 2026 before disbanding.

Los Retros

Los Retros is the bedroom pop project of Mauri Tapia, a first-generation Mexican-American from Oxnard, California, signed to Stones Throw in 2019; debut EP Retrospect (2019), later Everlasting, Looking Back, and Odisea (2026). Name honors Chilean band Los Ángeles Negros; distinct from a Spanish band of the same name.

Los Reyes Acaquilpan

Los Reyes Acaquilpan (Los Reyes La Paz) is a small INAH archaeological zone in La Paz municipality, State of Mexico, with a rare west-facing three-stage Postclassic pyramid likely dedicated to Huitzilopochtli, occupied from the Mazapa phase under Tula's influence until tribute to Chimalhuacán and Texcoco.

Los Rieleros del Norte

Los Rieleros del Norte are a Mexican norteño band formed in 1979 in Chihuahua, known for their saxophone-led sound and the hit "Te Quiero Mucho".

Los Rodríguez

Los Rodríguez is a Spanish-Argentine rock band formed in Madrid in 1990 by Andrés Calamaro, Ariel Rot, Julián Infante, and Germán Vilella, best known for the 1993 album Sin documentos.

Los Santos, San Andreas

Los Santos is Grand Theft Auto's fictional Los Angeles, the central city of the state of San Andreas in GTA: San Andreas (2004), GTA V (2013), and GTA Online; a roughly 130 sq km satirical map with Vinewood, Davis, and Maze Bank Tower.

Los Seis Años

Los Seis Años was the authoritarian 1868 to 1874 regime of President Buenaventura Báez in the Dominican Republic, marked by failed US annexation attempts and civil war.

Los Talibanes

Los Talibanes is a Mexican criminal organization that split from Los Zetas in 2012 and contests drug-trafficking routes across San Luis Potosí, Zacatecas, and Tamaulipas.

Los Teen Agers

Los Teen Agers were a Colombian youth band from Medellín, formed in 1956 or 1957, that pioneered the sonido paisa sound of 1960s Colombian tropical music.

Los Teen Angels

Los Teen Angels, also billed as TeenAngels, were an Argentine pop group formed from the cast of Cris Morena's television series Casi ángeles, which dissolved in 2012.

Los Tepoltzis

Los Tepoltzis is an INAH archaeological zone on hill crests about 5 km north of Tixtla, Guerrero, Mexico, occupied 200–1200 CE, with a pyramidal platform, rain-god cult, and free but currently closed access.

Los Teques

Los Teques, capital of Venezuela's Miranda state and Guaicaipuro municipality, founded as a parish in 1777, state capital since 13 February 1927; a 1,169 m Cordillera de la Costa city and Caracas bedroom community with a metro link and tropical savanna climate.

Los Texmaniacs

Los Texmaniacs, also known as Max Baca y Los Texmaniacs, are a conjunto group from San Antonio, Texas, founded by bajo sexto player Max Baca in 1997.

Los Thuthanaka

Los Thuthanaka: experimental duo of siblings Chuquimamani-Condori and Joshua Chuquimia Crampton blending Aymara and Andean music with noise and collage; self-titled 2025 debut was Pitchfork's album of the year.

Los Tigres del Norte

Los Tigres del Norte, Mexican norteño band founded 1968 in Mocorito, Sinaloa, based in San Jose, California; led by Jorge Hernández. Pioneers of the narcocorrido with "Contrabando y traición" (1974) and the voice of immigrant corridos like "La jaula de oro"; 7 Grammys, 12 Latin Grammys, 40 million albums.

Los Toreros Muertos

Los Toreros Muertos is a Spanish satirical rock band formed in Madrid in 1985 by singer Pablo Carbonell, known for 'Mi agüita amarilla' and over 100,000 albums sold.

Los Toriles

Los Toriles (Ixtlán del Río archaeological zone), Nayarit, Mexico: pre-Hispanic urban center with one of Mesoamerica's few circular temples, dedicated to Ehécatl-Quetzalcóatl; shaft-tomb tradition node and copper-route hub; distinct from the Spanish Cueva de los Toriles.

Los Toros Band

Los Toros Band is a Dominican merengue orchestra founded in 1989 in Santo Domingo by producer brothers Gerardo Díaz and Juan Pablo Díaz, fronted for 17 years by singer Héctor Acosta.

Los trabajos del mar

Los trabajos del mar is a 1983 book of poems by the Mexican writer José Emilio Pacheco, known for bringing an ecological consciousness into Mexican poetry.