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Nunez, GA -- U.S. town in Georgia
Population (2000): 131
Housing Units (2000): 53
Land area (2000): 1.341136 sq. miles (3.473527 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.341136 sq. miles (3.473527 sq. km)
FIPS code: 56644
Located within: Georgia (GA), FIPS 13
Location: 32.491880 N, 82.346547 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Nunez

Nunez (; ) is a Spanish surname. The Portuguese (and Old Galician) variant is Nunes. Notable people with the name include:

Nunez (disambiguation)

Nunez is a surname.

Nunez may also refer to:

  • Núñez, Buenos Aires, a barrio of Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • Nunez, Georgia, a town in Georgia, United States
  • Nunez, Louisiana, an unincorporated community in Louisiana, United States
  • Nunez River, a river in Guinea
  • Nunez Point, a point on Takaki Promontory in Antarctica
  • Nunez Peninsula, a peninsula on the south coast of South Georgia
    • Cape Nuñez, a headland of Nunez Peninsula
  • Nunez Community College, a college in Chalmette, Louisiana

Usage examples of "nunez".

He tells how the little party worked their difficult and almost vertical way up to the very foot of the last and greatest precipice, and how they built a night shelter amidst the snow upon a little shelf of rock, and, with a touch of real dramatic power, how presently they found Nunez had gone from them.

They turned their faces this way and that, and Nunez gesticulated with freedom.

Slowly Nunez realised this: that his expectation of wonder and reverence at his origin and his gifts was not to be borne out.

And the eldest of the blind men explained to him life and philosophy and religion, how that the world (meaning their valley) had been first an empty hollow in the rocks, and then had come first inanimate things without the gift of touch, and llamas and a few other creatures that had little sense, and then men, and at last angels, whom one could hear singing and making fluttering sounds, but whom no one could touch at all, which puzzled Nunez greatly until he thought of the birds.

He said Nunez must have been specially created to learn and serve the wisdom they had acquired, and that for all his mental incoherency and stumbling behaviour he must have courage and do his best to learn, and at that all the people in the door-way murmured encouragingly.

He asked Nunez if he knew how to sleep, and Nunez said he did, but that before sleep he wanted food.

It was only when at last Nunez sought to assert himself that he found how easy and confident their movements could be.

They mocked Nunez when Pedro did not arrive, and afterwards, when he asked Pedro questions to clear his character, Pedro denied and outfaced him, and was afterwards hostile to him.

And it was one of her elder sisters who first told Yacob that Medina-sarote and Nunez were in love.

He was not a shy or diffident young man by nature, but even now, at the very moment of departure, a part of him feared, with lurid apprehension, that if someone noticed him—Laín Nunez, for example, the Captain's lean old companion-at-arms—they might declare Alvar's presence an obvi­ous error of some kind, and he'd be left behind.

Behind Rodrigo, Laín Nunez abruptly turned his head and spat deliberately into the dirt of the yard.

The Captain made his own choices, often unexpected ones, with gap-toothed old Laín Nunez his only counsellor.

Laín Nunez rasped, the seamed and wizened face assuming an expression of fierce outrage.

If Laín Nunez had seemed indifferent to the bloody tale, almost as if he'd expected such foul deeds here in Al-Rassan, Ser Rodrigo's expression told a different story.

Laín Nunez had said gruffly as they divided the spoils in the village.