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Marianao

American  
[mah-ree-ah-nah-aw] / ˌmɑ ri ɑˈnɑ ɔ /

noun

  1. a city in NW Cuba, a suburb of Havana.


Marianao British  
/ marjaˈnao /

noun

  1. a city in NW Cuba, adjacent to W Havana city: the chief Cuban military base. Pop: 133 016 (1989)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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The Rev. Ricardo Pereira, the bishop at the Methodist Church of Marianao in Havana, said his church has gone from fewer than 400 members in the late 1990s to more than 3,200 today.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 1, 2015

A line of laundry girdled the back of the home dugout, where Marianao players sat in their bright red uniforms.

From New York Times ● Dec. 21, 2014

“This has nothing to do with the pope,” said the Rev. Jorge Ortega, pastor of the Methodist Charismatic Church in the Marianao neighborhood.

From New York Times ● Mar. 26, 2012

Veterans at Camp Columbia, the Cuban Army headquarters in the suburbs of Marianao, looked dubiously at their tar-paper mansions.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Americans then went to the home of the American Minister at Marianao, a suburb of Havana, where the insurgents had outposts just across the bridge, about 1,000 yards from the minister's house.

From The History of Cuba, vol. 4 by Willis Fletcher Johnson

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