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Vega Alta

American  
[vey-guh ahl-tuh, ve-gah ahl-tah] / ˈveɪ gə ˈɑl tə, ˈvɛ gɑ ˈɑl tɑ /

noun

  1. a city in northern Puerto Rico.


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A: We lived in a small town, Vega Alta.

From Seattle Times • May 7, 2024

Even as a child growing up in the small town of Vega Alta, Puerto Rico, which he left at the age of 18 for New York City, Luis Miranda was fueled by a relentless drive.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 25, 2020

About 20 miles west of San Juan, traces of Miranda are inescapable in Vega Alta, an unglamorous town of 39,000 people where his extended family still lives.

From The Guardian • Jan. 11, 2019

Gutierrez has a home in Vega Alta, Puerto Rico, and said he’d been in touch with an elderly neighbor who recounted how balconies fell off houses during the storm.

From Washington Post • Sep. 22, 2017

Though Congressman Powell has an income estimated above $60,000 a year and a house in Puerto Rico's secluded Vega Alta suburb, he talks poor-mouth when it comes to paying Mrs. James.

From Time Magazine Archive