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Paisano

Wikimedia disambiguation page

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 30, 2025
Entity authorityQ107935307
Source-derived summary

Paisano may refer to:

Places in the United States

Arizona

Casa Juan Paisano, a historic house in Tucson

Texas

Paisano Grant, one of twenty-five land grants made in the Brooks County/Jim Wells County area

Paisano Park, Texas, a census-designated place in San Patricio County

El Paisano Hotel, a historic hotel in Marfa

El Paisano Ranch, a ranch in Jim Wells County

Edgewater-Paisano, Texas, a suburb of Mathis

Other uses

The Paisano, an independent student-run newspaper of the University of Texas at San Antonio

Edna Paisano (1948–2014), Nez Perce and Laguna Pueblo demographer and statistician

Sphodros paisano, a species of purseweb spider in the family Atypidae

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The public source identifies “Paisano” as wikimedia disambiguation page. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Paisano, Wikimedia and disambiguation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1948, 2014—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Paisano, Wikimedia and disambiguation providing the first useful test.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 30, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q107935307. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1948 and 2014.

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This entry incorporates text from Paisano” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.