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Humacao

American  
[oo-mah-kou] / ˌu mɑˈkaʊ /

noun

  1. a city in E Puerto Rico.


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Ileana Rodríguez-Velez, a chemist at the University of Puerto Rico, Humacao, moved some still-viable samples of plants she is studying for their anticancer and antimicrobial activity to refrigerators at her and her mother’s houses.

From Science Magazine • Sep. 28, 2022

Cars, homes and gravestones in the coastal town of Humacao became halfway submerged after a river burst its banks.

From Washington Times • Aug. 30, 2019

The organization and its partners will continue to operate satellite kitchens to feed the most vulnerable communities, including in the municipalities of Ponce, Vieques, Humacao and Naguabo.

From Washington Post • Oct. 27, 2017

Three have opened in San Juan, to the west in Manati and Bayamon, and others were planned on the west coast in Mayagüez, to the south in Ponce and to the east in Humacao.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 6, 2017

In 1825 a hurricane destroyed the towns of Patillas, Maunabo, Yabucoa, Humacao, Gurabo, and Caguas, causing much damage in other towns in the east, north, and center of the island.

From The Story of the Philippines and Our New Possessions, Including the Ladrones, Hawaii, Cuba and Porto Rico The Eldorado of the Orient by Halstead, Murat

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