Veracruz

[ver-uh-krooz, ve-rah-kroos]

noun

1. a state in eastern Mexico, on the Gulf of Mexico. 27,759 sq. mi. (71,895 sq. km). Jalapa.

2. a seaport in this state: the chief port of Mexico.

Veracruz

/ beraˈkruθ, ˌvɛrəˈkruːz /

noun

1. a state of E Mexico, on the Gulf of Mexico: consists of a hot humid coastal strip with lagoons, rising rapidly inland to the central plateau and Sierra Madre Oriental. Capital: Jalapa. Pop: 630 000 (2005 est). Area: 72 815 sq km (28 114 sq miles)

2. the chief port of Mexico, in Veracruz state on the Gulf of Mexico. Pop: 410 000 (2000 est)

Example Sentences

The agency also stated that the infestation hadn’t yet penetrated farther north than Oaxaca and Veracruz, 700 miles from the U.S. border.

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Marines and sailors invaded and occupied the port of Veracruz, ostensibly to block German arms shipments to the government of Mexican President Victoriano Huerta.

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The author, a professor of Latin American history at Northwestern University, begins his saga in April 1519, when Hernán Cortés landed on Mexico’s eastern coast, near present-day Veracruz.

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Veracruz, along the Gulf of Mexico in the country's east, was in turn hardest hit by flooding.

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While their house in Poza Rica in Veracruz state was gone, the pair spoke to AFP Wednesday at the home of a neighbor who took them in.

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