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Wiktionary
n. 1 Province of Piedmont, Italy. 2 City and capital of Cuneo.
Wikipedia
Cuneo ( ; ; ) is a city and comune in Piedmont, Northern Italy, the capital of the province of Cuneo, the third largest of Italy’s provinces by area.
It is located at 550 metres (1,804 ft) in the south-west of Piedmont where is the confluence of the rivers Stura and Gesso.
Including all bordering municipalities Beinette, Borgo San Dalmazzo, Boves, Busca, Caraglio, Castelletto Stura, Centallo, Cervasca, Morozzo, Peveragno, Tarantasca and Vignolo the population is 123,301 inhabitants.
It is near six important mountain passes:
- Colle della Maddalena at
- Colle di Tenda at - Tunnel of Tenda at , long
- Colle del Melogno at
- Colle San Bernardo at
- Colle di Nava at
- Colle di Cadibona at .
Cuneo is a surname of Italian origin. The name refers to:
Persons- Andrew Cuneo, American professional Magic: The Gathering player
- Anne Cuneo (1936-2015), Swiss journalist, author, and screenwriter
- Ernest Cuneo (born 1906), American lawyer, political advisor, and newspaper owner
- John Cuneo (born 1928), Australian Olympic sailor
- John Cuneo (Illustrator) (born 1957), American illustrator and author
- Jonathan Cuneo (born 1952), American lawyer
- José Cuneo (born 1965), Argentine comic-book illustrator
- José Cuneo Perinetti (1887-1977), Uruguayan painter
- Lester Cuneo (1888-1926), American stage and silent-film actor
- Peter Cuneo (contemporary), American business executive; vice chairman of Marvel Entertainment
- Rinaldo Cuneo (1877-1939), American painter
- Terence Cuneo (1907-1996), English painter
- Ottilio Cuneo, character from the novel The Godfather; appeared as Carmine Cuneo in the film version
Usage examples of "cuneo".
Turin then turned south to Cuneo and was now approaching the Col de Tende, that fearsome mountain pass with the tunnel at the top which marks the boundary between Italy and France.