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San José, town, Guatemala

(Encyclopedia)San José, town (1994 est. pop. 14,170), SW Guatemala, on the Pacific Ocean. It is a rail terminus and a major Pacific port of Guatemala. ...

La Granja

(Encyclopedia)La Granja, Spain: see San Ildefonso. ...

Granja, La

(Encyclopedia)Granja, La: see San Ildefonso, Spain. ...

Cat Island

(Encyclopedia)Cat Island: see San Salvador, island. ...

Greytown

(Encyclopedia)Greytown: see San Juan del Norte, Nicaragua. ...

Mulatas

(Encyclopedia)Mulatas, archipelago, Panama: see San Blas Islands. ...

Aso, Mount

(Encyclopedia)Aso, Mount, Kyushu, Japan: see Aso-san. ...

Antunes, António Lobo

(Encyclopedia)Antunes, António Lobo, 1942–, Portuguese novelist. Trained as a physician, he was a field hospital doctor in Angola in the 1960s and later worked in a children's cancer hospital; both experiences s...

Cuadra, Pablo Antonio

(Encyclopedia)Cuadra, Pablo Antonio, 1912–2002, Nicaraguan poet, b. Managua. Early in life, Cuadra became a member of the Vanguard literary movement and edited (1929) its journal. Influenced by Rubén Darío and ...
 

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