San Definition–noun | a river in central Europe, flowing from the Carpathian Mountains in W Ukraine through SE Poland into the Vistula: battles 1914–15. ab. 280 mi. (450 km) long. |
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an indigenous people of southern Africa, related to the Khoekhoe (Khoikhoi). They live chiefly in Botswana, Namibia, and southeastern Angola. Bushmen is an Anglicization of boesman, the Dutch and ...
San Jose
city, southern Uruguay. It lies northwest of Montevideo along the San Jose River. It originated in 1783, when Eusebio Vidal, acting under orders of the viceroy, Don Juan Jose de Vertiz, organized the ...
San Cristobal
city, south-central Dominican Republic. It is situated in the coastal lowlands close to the Caribbean Sea. Founded by Spaniards in 1575, when gold was discovered in the area, it was the site of the ...
San Juan
city, southwestern Dominican Republic. It lies on the San Juan River, an affluent of the Yaque del Sur River, northwest of Santo Domingo city. The Spanish explorer Diego Velazquez founded San Juan in ...
San Pedro
city, southwestern Coahuila estado (state), northeastern Mexico. It is located on one of the irrigation canals of the Nazas River, near the swampy Mayran Lagoon. San Pedro lies 3,619 feet (1,103 m) ...
San Antonio, Cape
cape, westernmost Cuba. Forming the western extremity of the island, its point juts out between the Gulf of Guanahacabibes on the north and Corrientes Bay on the south. Approximately 150 mi (240 km) ...
San Lucas, Cape
extreme southern tip of the Baja California peninsula, Mexico. The rocky headland forms the southern extremity of the Sierra de San Lazaro and includes the western shore of San Lucas Bay. The ...
Puerto de San Jose
port town, south-central Guatemala, situated along the Pacific Ocean. Opened in 1853, it is a roadstead with a long wharf; passengers and cargo are transferred from ships anchored 1 mile (1.6 km) ...
General San Martin
cabecera (county seat) and partido (county) of Gran (Greater) Buenos Aires, eastern Argentina. It lies immediately northwest of the city of Buenos Aires, in Buenos Aires provincia (province). The ...
San Juan River
river and outlet of Lake Nicaragua, issuing from the lake's southeastern end at San Carlos and flowing along the Nicaragua-Costa Rica border into the Caribbean Sea at San Juan del Norte. It receives ...
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