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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

Pittman was born in the U.S. — in 1952, at Glendale Memorial Hospital — but he spent a half dozen years of his childhood living in Colombia, first in Cali, then in Tumaco.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 13, 2019

There are only two commercial ports on the coast, Tumaco and Buenaventura, though there are several natural harbours which would be of great service were there any demand for them.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 6 "Cockaigne" to "Columbus, Christopher" by Various

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