San Cristóbal
Americannoun
noun
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Former name: Chatham Island. an island in the Pacific, in the Galápagos Islands. Area: 505 sq km (195 sq miles)
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a city in SW Venezuela: founded in 1561 by Spanish conquistadores. Pop: 395 000 (2005 est)
Example Sentences
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Cultural adoration for backward speak perhaps reaches an apex in San Cristóbal de La Laguna, a city in Spain’s Canary Islands where residents are pushing for official recognition of backward speak.
From Scientific American • Oct. 12, 2023
By 1962 he had earned a place as professor of philosophy at San Cristóbal of Huamanga National University in the central city of Ayacucho.
From BBC • Sep. 11, 2021
In the early 1960s, he joined the faculty at the Universidad Nacional San Cristóbal de Huamanga in Ayacucho and became caught up in leftist politics.
From Washington Post • Sep. 11, 2021
And as he was growing up in San Cristóbal, Jiménez said, his family didn’t have enough money to buy a home, so they always rented.
From New York Times • May 7, 2021
He spent his days at the corner of Calle San Cristóbal in Old San Juan, peeling oranges with his pocket knife and scooping out a triangular hole through which tourists could suck the sweet juice.
From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago
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