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Answer for the clue "Nation in northern South America ", 9 letters:
venezuela

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Word definitions for venezuela in dictionaries

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Venezuela is a sector in Río Piedras Pueblo .

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Spanish, diminutive of Venecia "Venice" (see Venice ). Supposedly the name was given by Spanish sailors in 1499 when they saw a native village built on piles on Lake Maracaibo. Related: Venezuelan .

Usage examples of venezuela.

I ask myself why three Americanos would wish to leave Venezuela in this fashion.

With these small numbers he changed his resolution to attempt Cartagena, and set sail for Maracaibo, a town situated on the great lagoon of that name in Venezuela.

There were landscape scenes from the Amazon, Machu Picchu, and the Gran Sabana of Venezuela, as well as colorful Indian market scenes from Colombia and Ecuador.

In the mid-1960s, the American anthropologist James Neel inoculated members of the Yanomami tribe in Venezuela with a virulent strain of measles.

Gabriel, who miraculously metamorphosed into a run-of-the-mill featherweight boxer hi the army, turned pro after his discharge, was known as the Milagro Mauler during his short and undistinguished prime, and died in a plane crash in Venezuela.

Venezuela, and the tepuis are real, but they are much smaller than either Doyle or I have described them, and none of them has dinosaurs.

Later she discovered it had become the centerpiece for a roundup of the atrocities committed that night around the world and for the terrorist attacks in Uruguay, Venezuela, and Peru, in another Georgia and Azerbaijan, in South Africa and Israel and the Sudan, in Laos and the Philippines.

The coproduction agreements had made the F-16 Falcon a mainstay of military aviation in countries ranging from Israel, Bahrain, Egypt, and South Korea to Venezuela.

Next on the list, according to current speculation in Washington and other Hemisphere capitals, will be Venezuela -- and what might be precipitated by Brazil's congressional elections in October is anybody's guess.

Better to have a capital asset, with the big tax concessions that Jamaica gave, than pay the money to Uncle Sam, Uncle Fidel, Uncle Leoni of Venezuela.

He makes auto parts - two factories, actually, one in Venezuela and one in Costa Rica.

So I had a friend of mine with the foreign department of the National City Bank of New York Citywhen we first went into Venezuela, he was very helpful, and together we did all right down theremake some discreet inquiries about this fellow Hor-gay Goool-yermo Frah-day down in Argentina.

He got a strange feeling sitting in the softly upholstered seat of the Martin (every time they landedfirst at Caracas, Venezuela, and then at Belem and Rio de Janeiro in Brazilthe crisp linen head cloths of the seats were replaced, and the ashtrays emptied) computing time and distance with the same watch he'd used when he had to wonder if he had enough gas to bring his Grumman Wildcat back to Midway or Henderson.

This was also the year when, flying in the huge Sikorsky helicopter, Settiniaz flew over Amazonia for three days, going as far as the llano of Colombia and Venezuela, following at a low altitude the flow of the Guaviare and the Orinoco, to the small town of San Fernando de Atabapo.

In Panama, Colombia and Venezuela in the north, and along the Argentine and Brazilian borders in the south, the ebb of battle flowed back and forth, although some progress was being made in the approaches to the Canal Zone in Panama and in some areas in Argentina where Brazilian forces had penetrated.