Buenaventura
Americannoun
noun
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“Everything is going up,” said Ariel Buenaventura, a doorman at a 16-story red-brick building on Manhattan’s Upper East Side.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
Farmers in the mountainous region of San Buenaventura, in the north-west of the country, said the blazes had left a trail of devastation.
From BBC • Nov. 28, 2023
“They don’t choose it, they’re forced into it,” said Rubén Darío Jaramillo Montoya, bishop of Buenaventura.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 18, 2023
It was processed elsewhere before being sold nationally or smuggled to the Pacific port city of Buenaventura and exported.
From Reuters • Jul. 27, 2023
He built a chapel, and then directed his course south-west to Vitoc, where he founded the village San Buenaventura.
From Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests by Ross, Thomasina
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