Cuanza
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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By the late fall, the remote Cuanza basin had become the site of a rush.
From New York Times ● Jan. 14, 2011
Circumstances looked particularly prospective to a geophysicist named Jim Farnsworth, who works for Cobalt International Energy, a company that held a group of leases 50 miles from the mouth of Angola’s Cuanza River basin.
From New York Times ● Jan. 14, 2011
The industry had been over this territory a decade earlier; a few scattered wells were drilled into the Cuanza basin, and then, having found little oil, the companies plugged them.
From New York Times ● Jan. 14, 2011
Here the first turf was lately turned by an English commodore—this tramway was intended to connect with the water edge, and eventually to reach the Cuanza at Calumbo.
From Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
The Cuanza at "Sleepers' Bay" has one of the worst shifting bars on the whole coast.
From Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
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