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Tumaco

American  
[too-mah-kaw] / tuˈmɑ kɔ /

noun

  1. a seaport in SW Colombia.


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The wood-and-fibre-glass vessel is thought to have sailed from the Colombian port of Tumaco, covering thousands of miles before it was stopped.

From BBC • Nov. 28, 2024

Already displaced by previous flare-ups of armed conflict, the group lives in a hard-to-reach jungle area north of the town of Tumaco.

From BBC • Aug. 15, 2024

Byron Castillo claimed to be an Ecuadorian national born in 1998 but was in fact born in neighboring Tumaco, Colombia, in 1995.

From Washington Times • Sep. 13, 2022

His mother hailed from Tumaco, a small town that straddles the Colombian mainland and a couple of diminutive islands near the Ecuadorean border.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 13, 2019

According to the report of the Spaniards, Tumaco and Chiapes said there was an island much larger than the others in the gulf, governed by a single cacique.

From De Orbe Novo, Volume 1 (of 2) The Eight Decades of Peter Martyr D'Anghera by MacNutt, Francis Augustus

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