Punta Arenas, (1) the chief port of Costa Rica on the Pacific, stands on a 'sandy point' jutting into the Gulf of Nicoya, and is connected by railway with Esparza, 14 miles east-north-east. The principal export is coffee, and after that india-rubber, hides, dye-woods, and tortoiseshell. Pop. 8000.—(2) A town in Patagonia (q.v.).
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 8: Peasant to Eoumelia, p. 494
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