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Cumaná

American  
[koo-mah-nah] / ˌku mɑˈnɑ /

noun

  1. a seaport in N Venezuela.


Cumaná British  
/ kumaˈna /

noun

  1. a city in NE Venezuela: founded in 1523; the oldest European settlement in South America. Pop: 271 000 (2005 est)

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In Sucre's state capital, Cumaná, residents have been without running water for two weeks.

From BBC • Mar. 26, 2026

Henriquez grew up in Cumaná, a historic beach city of about half a million people wedged between the Manzanares Rivers and Venezuela’s Caribbean coast, 250 miles east of Caracas.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 20, 2025

In July 1799 they landed in Cumaná on the coast of New Andalusia, in modern-day Venezuela.

From Economist • Nov. 5, 2015

The subsequent affairs of Maturin, Cumaná, Carupano, Guiria, Urica, and El Caris, were fought, with varying success.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 363, March 28, 1829 by Various

The news of the disaster at Cumaná had long since reached Hispaniola and Las Casas heard of it in the following manner, while journeying on foot across the island with several companions.

From Bartholomew de Las Casas; his life, apostolate, and writings by MacNutt, Francis Augustus