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Alajuela

American  
[ah-lah-hwe-lah] / ˌɑ lɑˈʰwɛ lɑ /

noun

  1. a city in central Costa Rica.


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The Panama Canal works by transiting boats through a series of above-sea-level locks fed by Lake Gatún and the smaller Lake Alajuela.

From BBC Mar. 5, 2024

To allow for 24 vessels a day through the dry season, the canal will release water from Lake Alajuela, a secondary reservoir.

From Seattle Times Jan. 7, 2024

The first leg is Thursday night in Alajuela, Costa Rica.

From Washington Post Feb. 25, 2015

Coffee-pickers wait in line to weigh their freshly harvested crop on a plantation in San Isidro de Alajuela, north-east of San Jose.

From BBC Jan. 9, 2013

The Nicaraguan specimens extend the known geographic range approximately 270 kilometers northwestward from near Villa Quesada, Alajuela, Costa Rica, and are the first records of the species from Nicaragua.

From Records of Harvest Mice, Reithrodontomys, from Central America, with Description of a New Subspecies from Nicaragua by Sydney Anderson

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