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León, city, Mexico

(Encyclopedia)León, city (1990 pop. 758,270), Guanajuato state, central Mexico. It is located in a fertile river valley c.5,600 ft (1,700 m) high, but with a mild, temperate climate. Frequent floods, which in 1888...

Vancouver, city, Canada

(Encyclopedia)Vancouver, city (1991 pop. 471,844), SW British Columbia, Canada, on Burrard Inlet of the Strait of Georgia, opposite Vancouver Island and just N of the Wash. border. It is the largest city on Canada'...

Lee's Summit

(Encyclopedia)Lee's Summit, city (1990 pop. 46,418), Jackson co., W Mo., in the Kansas City metropolitan area; inc. 1868. The city is an important trucking center and manufactures communications equipment, applianc...

Grandview

(Encyclopedia)Grandview, city (2020 pop. 26,209), Jackson co., W Mo., S of Kansas City; inc. 1912. Hardware, chemicals, transportation equipment, apparel, steel, proc...

Campeche, city, Mexico

(Encyclopedia)Campeche, city, capital of Campeche state, SE Mexico, on the Yucatán peninsula. It is fortified and surrounded by 18th-century walls. Although it remai...

Manzanillo, city, Cuba

(Encyclopedia)Manzanillo mänsänēˈyō [key], city (1994 est. pop. 98,000), Granma prov., SE Cuba, a port on the Guacanayabo Gulf of the Caribbean Sea. A leading city on Cuba's southern coast, Manzanillo is a com...

Colón, city, Panama

(Encyclopedia)Colón, city, Panama, at the Caribbean end of the Panama Canal. Colón, the second largest city in Panama, was surrounded by, but not part of, the forme...

Culp, Curley

(Encyclopedia)Culp, Curley, 1946-2021, American football Hall-of-Famer, b. Yuma, Az., Arizona State Univ. (B.Bus., 1970), Univ. of Houston (M.A., 1990). Considered th...

Republican

(Encyclopedia)Republican, river, c.420 mi (680 km) long, formed in S Nebr. by the junction of the North Fork and Arikaree rivers. It is joined by the South Fork at Benkelman and flows E across the rolling grassland...

Smoky Hill River

(Encyclopedia)Smoky Hill River, c.560 mi (900 km) long, rising on the Great Plains, E Colo., and flowing E across Kansas to join the Republican River and form the Kansas River at Junction City. The Saline River is ...