Punto Fijo

[ poon-toh fee-hoh; Spanish poon-taw fee-haw ]

noun

1. a city in NW Venezuela, on the Paraguana Peninsula.

Example Sentences

Raised in Punto Fijo, Venezuela, she had in recent years lived through extreme shortages of food, hyperinflation and the collapse of nearly every state institution in Venezuela.

From New York Times

“We’re on track but it’s the wrong track,” said Rafael Narvaez, a taxi driver in the western coastal city of Punto Fijo.

From Reuters

Luis Davila grew up in Punto Fijo, Venezuela, and Curaçao, the son and nephew of oil executives.

From New York Times

Over the years he's watched dozens of co-workers abandon poverty wages and dangerous working conditions at the rundown complex of refineries in Venezuela's Punto Fijo for jobs in far-flung places like Kuwait, Angola and Chile.

From Fox News

Over the years he’s watched dozens of co-workers abandon poverty wages and dangerous working conditions at the rundown complex of refineries in Punto Fijo on Venezuela’s Caribbean coast for jobs in far-flung places like Kuwait, Angola and Chile.

From Seattle Times