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Cumana

noun
1.
A port city in northeastern Venezuela on the Caribbean Sea; founded in 1523, it is the oldest European settlement in South America.





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... Gulf of Pearls. From hence he stood to the opposite island of Margarita, previously discovered by Columbus, and since renowned for its pearl fishery. This, as well as several adjacent islands, he visited and explored, after which he returned to the main-land, and touched at Cumana and Maracapana, where he found the rivers infested with alligators resembling the crocodiles of the Nile. Finding a convenient harbor at Maracapana, he unloaded and careened his vessels there, and built a small brigantine. The natives came to him in great ...
— Amerigo Vespucci • Frederick A. Ober


Words linked to "Cumana" :   metropolis, city, urban center, port, Venezuela, Republic of Venezuela


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