Cumaná

[ koo-mah-nah ]

noun

1. a seaport in N Venezuela.

Cumaná

/ kumaˈna /

noun

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

Example Sentences

On the right bank were seen the plains of the Sayma, reaching to Cumana and Caraccas, 120 leagues to the north.

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La Guaira coffee includes that produced in the vicinity of Caracas and Cumana.

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For a long time Margarita was attached to Cumana, but in the eighteenth century it was made administratively independent.

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Picart says that the natives of New Granada and Cumana "portent au col les dents des ennemis qu'ils ont massacrez."

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Columbus landed on the shore, west of Point Cumana, and received a kindly welcome from the numerous inhabitants.

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