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Tumaco

American  
[too-mah-kaw] / tuˈmɑ kɔ /

noun

  1. a seaport in SW Colombia.


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The wood-and-fibre-glass vessel is thought to have sailed from the Colombian port of Tumaco, covering thousands of miles before it was stopped.

From BBC • Nov. 28, 2024

Already displaced by previous flare-ups of armed conflict, the group lives in a hard-to-reach jungle area north of the town of Tumaco.

From BBC • Aug. 15, 2024

Byron Castillo claimed to be an Ecuadorian national born in 1998 but was in fact born in neighboring Tumaco, Colombia, in 1995.

From Washington Times • Sep. 13, 2022

His early education was improvised: With few options available in Tumaco, his father joined with a couple of other lumber company employees to pay for a tutor for their children.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 13, 2019

Influenced by the advice of the caciques Chiapes and Tumaco, Vasco Nu�ez decided to postpone his visit to the island until spring or summer, at which time Chiapes offered to accompany him.

From De Orbe Novo, Volume 1 (of 2) The Eight Decades of Peter Martyr D'Anghera by MacNutt, Francis Augustus