Pánuco

[ pah-nuh-koh; Spanish pah-noo-kaw ]

noun
  1. a river in E central Mexico, flowing E to the Gulf of Mexico. About 315 miles (505 km) long.

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How to use Pánuco in a sentence

  • While thus engaged, Cortez received intelligence that the province of Panuco was in a state of insurrection.

    Hernando Cortez | John S. C. Abbott
  • At Panuco phallic symbols abounded in the temples and on the public monuments.

  • Panuco is an old town of the Huestacos, and is subject to occasional inundations during the rainy season.

  • Panuco is the only town above Tampico, on the Panuco River, and contains only about four thousand inhabitants.

  • This river rises at the foot of the mountains near Victoria, and falls into the Panuco at Tampico.