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Humacao

American  
[oo-mah-kou] / ˌu mɑˈkaʊ /

noun

  1. a city in E Puerto Rico.


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Ileana Rodríguez-Velez, a chemist at the University of Puerto Rico, Humacao, moved some still-viable samples of plants she is studying for their anticancer and antimicrobial activity to refrigerators at her and her mother’s houses.

From Science Magazine • Sep. 28, 2022

Cars, homes and gravestones in the coastal town of Humacao became halfway submerged after a river burst its banks.

From Washington Times • Aug. 30, 2019

The organization and its partners will continue to operate satellite kitchens to feed the most vulnerable communities, including in the municipalities of Ponce, Vieques, Humacao and Naguabo.

From Washington Post • Oct. 27, 2017

Eight medical disaster management assistance teams from the mainland were helping hospitals in San Juan, Arecibo, Caguas, Fajardo, Humacao and Ponce, he said.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 6, 2017

The island has been a dependency of Porto Rico since 1879, when its colonization was formally undertaken, and it is now described as a ward of the Vieques district of the department of Humacao.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" by Various