Bahía Blanca

[ bah-ee-ah -vlahng-kah ]

/ bɑˈi ɑ ˈvlɑŋ kɑ /

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noun

a seaport in E Argentina.

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How to use Bahía Blanca in a sentence

Few of the annual 2.5 million tourists who come to La Isla Blanca every year escape paying their due at one of his registers.
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The sludge was sent by rail and spread around on a defunct resort ranch near Sierra Blanca.
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I first heard about Ciudad Blanca, or the White City, in 2008 while reporting a magazine story about the drug trade in Honduras.
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Bahia Bakari was aboard an Airbus A310 with 152 others when it slammed into the water making an approach in poor weather.
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Last June, a 14-year-old girl, Bahia Bakari, was the sole survivor of a crash in the Indian Ocean, off the Comoros Islands.
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Meantime Bahia, actuated by the same spirit as Rio, had anticipated the revolution at that place.
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It was faced with stone, on the recovery of Bahia from the Dutch, about the beginning of the last century.
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Cachoeira, about fifty miles from Bahia, is a good town, where there is one English merchant resident.
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Yet, I am happy to say, the Bahia press has lately actually printed a pamphlet against the slave trade.
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The daring of this attempt has filled the Portuguese with astonishment and dismay, and they are now most willing to abandon Bahia.
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British Dictionary definitions for Bahía Blanca

Bahía Blanca

/ (Spanish baˈia ˈblanka) /

noun

a port in E Argentina. Pop: 276 000 (2005 est)

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