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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • A city of south-central Cuba on Cienfuegos Bay, a narrow-necked inlet of the Caribbean Sea. The city is a port and a trade and processing center.

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Examples

  • His family ran a small publishing house in Cienfuegos, on Cuba’s southern coast.

    Twilight of the Assassins 2006

  • His family ran a small publishing house in Cienfuegos, on Cuba’s southern coast.

    Twilight of the Assassins 2006

  • We adventured in Cienfuegos, which is renowned for its Cuban architectural achievement and in Trinidad, which is the best-preserved colonial city in Cuba, just to name a few.

    Lili Boyle: An American Girl in Cuba Lili Boyle 2012

  • We adventured in Cienfuegos, which is renowned for its Cuban architectural achievement and in Trinidad, which is the best-preserved colonial city in Cuba, just to name a few.

    Lili Boyle: An American Girl in Cuba Lili Boyle 2012

  • I talked here about caballerias in the factories because this one has 1.5 caballerias under the roof and extends over an area of about 4 caballerias; so what could I say about the refinery, in Cienfuegos, which is now under construction and will cover an area of 33 caballerias?

    DEDICATION OF SANTIAGO DE CUBA TEXTILE COMPLES 1983

  • How do we confront this difficulty within the needs for development if we want to build a factory like the one in Cienfuegos, which is capable of producing almost a half million tons of nitrogenous fertilizers per year, fertilizers which we are importing because the one we produce here is only mixed here.

    17TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE ATTACK ON MONCADA BARRAC 1970

  • Cienfuegos, which is costing us some 40 odd million.

    10TH REVOLUTION ANNIVERSARY 1969

  • [Robaina] Some municipalities such as Cienfuegos and Plaza need two or three.

    Castro Opens Youth Computer Center 7 Mar 1991

  • He recalled the days of the Machado regime, and he said: With this kind of Cienfuegos, with the kind of might that Cienfuegos is displaying today, we could have overthrown

    CIENFUEGOS RALLY HONORING HONECKER 1974

  • Cienfuegos which is our best industrial construction brigade and the whole brigade was sent to Oriente Province.

    PREMIER CASTRO 20 MAY REPORT ON SUGAR HARVEST 1970

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