Santiago de Cuba

American  

[san-tee-o-goh duh kyoo-buh, son-tee-o-goh the koo-bah] / sæn tiˈɒ goʊ də ˈkyu bə, sɒn tiˈɒ goʊ ðɛ ˈku βɑ /

noun

1. a seaport in southeastern Cuba: naval battle 1898.

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Santiago de Cuba British  

/ de ˈkuβa /

noun

1. a port in SE Cuba, on Santiago Bay (a large inlet of the Caribbean): capital of Cuba until 1589; university (1947); industrial centre. Pop: 456 000 (2005 est)

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Example Sentences

In Cuba, residents of the country's second-largest city Santiago de Cuba worked with machetes to clear streets buried in debris.

From BBC

Rovier Mesa Rodríguez, a video maker who lives in Santiago de Cuba, called the storm "terrifying" and described it sounding "like a tornado".

From BBC

The storm made landfall early Wednesday in the Cuban province of Santiago de Cuba with maximum sustained winds of close to 120 mph.

From The Wall Street Journal

The storm is heading towards Santiago de Cuba, Cuba's second-largest city.

From BBC

Melissa, which had earlier been downgraded to a powerful Category 4 storm, was now headed for the eastern Cuban provinces of Granma, Santiago de Cuba and Guantanamo.

From Barron's