Cartagena

American  

[kahr-tuh-jee-nuh, kahr-tah-he-nah] / ˌkɑr təˈdʒi nə, ˌkɑr tɑˈhɛ nɑ /

noun

1. a seaport in SE Spain.

2. a seaport in N Colombia.

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Cartagena British  

/ ˌkɑːtəˈdʒiːnə, kartaˈxena /

noun

1. a port in NW Colombia, on the Caribbean: centre for the Inquisition and the slave trade in the 16th century; chief oil port of Colombia. Pop: 1 002 000 (2005 est)

2. a port in SE Spain, on the Mediterranean: important since Carthaginian and Roman times for its minerals. Pop: 194 203 (2003 est)

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Example Sentences

The new measures stipulate that drones may only enter through customs points at Bogota's international airport and the northern seaport of Cartagena.

From Barron's

Salvador García-Ayllón, head of the civil engineering department at Cartagena's University-Polytechnic, described the high-speed network as being "the jewel in the crown of Spanish infrastructure".

From BBC

The mayor of the nearby city of Cartagena, Noelia Arroyo, wrote on social media that the electricity company truck was working on cables belonging to a building next to the track.

From Barron's

Once we boarded the ship in Rome, we unpacked and didn’t pull the suitcases out again until the last night—and my mom still got to see Cartagena, Malaga, Tenerife and Gibraltar.

From The Wall Street Journal

Braekhus was adopted from an orphanage in Cartagena at the age of two and grew up in Sandviken, a neighbourhood of Bergen.

From BBC