Cumaná

[ koo-mah-nah ]

noun

1. a seaport in N Venezuela.

Cumaná

/ kumaˈna /

noun

1. a city in NE Venezuela: founded in 1523; the oldest European settlement in South America. Pop: 271 000 (2005 est)

Example Sentences

“I have to do back flips,” said María Rodríguez, 34, a medical lab analyst in Cumaná, a small city 250 miles east of the capital, explaining that, to pay for food and her daughter’s school tuition, she relied on two jobs, a side business selling beauty products and money from her relatives.

From New York Times

Neymar scored his 67th international goal after Yohan Cumana fouled Danilo, but he missed another great chance to move closer to Pele's national record of 77, shooting wide after breaking through the Venezuela defence in the closing stages.

From BBC

At one recent protest in the coastal city of Cumaná, he said, a demonstrator was detained and tortured.

From Washington Post

“I want to give him another chance,” said Yenny Cumana, a 32-year-old housewife from 24 de Julio, a community in Petare that was rocked by protests last week.

From The Guardian

In Cumana, the biggest city near the quake’s center, supermarket shelves came crashing down.

From Seattle Times