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Definition: Santiago |
SantiagoNoun1. City in the northern Dominican Republic. 2. Port city in southeastern Chile; industrial center. 3. The capital and largest city of Chile; located in central Chile; one of the largest cities in South America. 4. A naval battle in the Spanish-American War (1898); the US fleet bottled up the Spanish ships in the harbor of Santiago de Cuba and destroyed them when they tried to escape. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Santiago" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "the heel holder", "a supplanter". |
Date "Santiago" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Geography | Capital of Chile. Source: European Union. (references) |
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"Santiago" is the name of a number of cities all named after St. James ("Santiago" in Spanish), the patron saint of Spain. (An alternate form of the name is "San Diego".) Santiago is also a common family and last name in the Hispanic world.
Other things named Santiago:
- Santiago is the capital city of Chile
- Santiago is a city in Panama
- Santiago del Estero is a city in northern Argentina
- Santiago de Compostela is the capital of Galicia, Spain
- Santiago de Compostela is also the name of the cathedral in the above-mentioned city
- Santiago de Cuba is a city in eastern Cuba
- Santiago de Guayaquil (often known as "Guayaquil") is the largest city of Ecuador
- Santiago de los Caballeros is a city in the Dominican Republic
Historic uses of the name:
- Santiago Island, one of the islands of Cape Verde
- Santiago River, a tributary of the Amazon
See also:
- Santiago was the Spanish name given to the island of Xamayca, now called Jamaica.
- Battle of Santiago de Cuba
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Santiago (full form Santiago de Chile) is the capital of Chile. It is situated in the central valley in the middle of Chile.
History
Santiago was founded by Pedro de Valdivia on February 12, 1541 with the name Santiago de Nueva Extremadura. The founding ceremony was held on what is now known as Cerro Santa Lucía. Valdivia chose the location of Santiago because of its climate and the ease with which it could be defended. This was because the river Mapocho split in two, and rejoined further downstream, forming an island. With the help of the indigenous population the first buildings where erected.
Climate
The climate in Santiago is mediterranean. With hot dry summers (November to March) with temperatures reaching to 35 Celsius on some days. The winters (June to August) are more humid with maximum temperatures of 15 being the norm, and minimums of a few degrees above freezing.
Mean rainfall is 360 mm per year.
Population
Currently there live about 5.5 million people in the Santiago Metropolitan area. This represents about one third of the total Population of Chile.
Culture
Santiago has the largest concentration of cultural institutions in the country.
Universities
- Universidad de Chile
- Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
- Universidad de Santiago
- Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana
- Universidad Andrés Bello
- Universidad de la República
- Universidad Diego Portales
- Universidad Mayor
- Universidad Alberto Hurtado
- Universidad Metropolitana de Ciencias de la Educación
- Universidad Santo Tomás
- Universidad de las Américas
Music
There are two symphonic orchestras:
- Orquesta Filarmónica de Santiago, which performs in the Teatro Municipal
- Orquesta Sinfónica de Chile, dependent of the Universidad de Chile, performs in its theater.
Museums
Museums include:
- Museo de Arte Precolombino
- Museo Histórico Nacional
- Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes
- Museo de Arte Contemporáneo
- Museo Interactivo Mirador
- Museo Artequín
- Museo de Ciencia y Tecnología
- Museo Ferroviario
- Museo de la Solidaridad "Salvador Allende"
Transport
- Santiago has an extensive, if chaotic, privately-run bus system.
- There are three metro lines that function excellently though their coverage is somewhat limited at the moment. The Government is in various stages of constructing three additional metro lines
- There are train connections from Santiago to the southern part of the country.
- Private inter-urban bus companies provide excellent and cheap transportation from Santiago to virtually any part of the country.
- Santiago's airport is Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport
Places to visit
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- La Moneda, government palace
- The museums mentioned above
- Cerro Santa Lucía (Santa Lucía Hill)
- Cerro San Cristóbal (San Cristóbal Hill)
- There are ski resorts within an hour's drive east from the city (Farellones, Valle Nevado, La Parva etc)
- Seaside resorts such as Algarrobo, an hour's drive west
- La Chascona, Pablo Neruda's house in Santiago.
- Parque Metropolitano de Santiago (Santiago Metropolitan Zoo), a zoo located on Cerro San Cristóbal
- Parque O'Higgins
- Parque Forestal, a park located at the city centre by the river
- Estación Central, a railway station designed by Gustave Eiffel
- Estadio Nacional
- Estadio Víctor Jara
Environment
Because of the air-circulation patterns (or lack thereof) in the central valley, in the winter months there is a lot of smog pollution in Santiago. The Government has been trying to do something to reduce the problem by giving incentives to heavy industry to move out of the central valley but until now it has not had any real effect.
Another major problem has been the contamination of the river Mapocho by industrial and household waste, which was dumped unfiltered into the river, and mining waste from upstream; there are a number of copper mines in the Andes east of Santiago. The government has passed a law that obligates industry and the governments of the comunas to process all their waste by 2006. There are various big waste production plants being constructed because of this.
The sound levels in the main city streets can be quite high. This is mostly due to very noisy city buses. These buses are also a major contributor to the winter smog.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Santiago de Chile."
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The Obradoiro façade of the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela on the Spanish €00.05 coin Santiago de Compostela (2002 pop. 93,273) named the European City of Culture for the year 2000, is located in the north west region of Spain in the province of A Coruña in the autonomous community of Galicia.
"Santiago" means "St. James", and the city is supposedly the final resting place of Jesus's Apostle St. James the Great, the brother of John. His remains are said to be under the altar in the crypt of the cathedral. One etymology for "Compostela" (or "Campostela") is "field of stars", so he is sometimes called "St. James of the Field of Stars".
Another theory has that the actual remains in the crypt belong to Priscillian, a Spanish heresiarch.
Santiago is also only a few miles inland from the most westward coast of mainland Europe facing the Atlantic, so prior to Christopher Columbus's voyage of 1492, it was considered the edge of the known world, the Finis Terrae in Latin, Finisterre in Spanish and Fisterra in Galician (See also French Finistére and Land's End). Also, as the lowest-lying land on that stretch of coast, it took on added significance. Legends supposed of Celt origin made it the place were the souls of the dead gathered to follow the Sun across the sea. Those unworthy of going to the Land of the Dead haunted Galicia as the Santa Compaña.
Since the 11th century, Santiago has been the ideal ending spot for a Pilgrimage. People from Western Europe would walk St. James's Way for months to arrive finally at the great church in the main square to pay homage, and many pilgrims have laid their hands on the pillar just inside the doorway to rest their weary bones. So many, in fact, that a groove has been worn in the stone.
The Galician government hopes to make the Way into a powerful tourism spot. For the Holy Compostellan Year (whenever July 25 is a Sunday), the Xacobeo campaign is reinforced.
At the front of the baroque cathedral, a golden mollusc shell adorns the altar. A steady stream of pilgrims still queue there to kiss the shell, as another sign of homage.
The cathedral fronts on the main Plaza of the old and preserved city. Across the square is the Galician parliament building and, on the right from the cathedral steps is a hotel. The Obradoiro façade of the cathedral, the best known, is depicted on the Spanish euro coins of 1 cent, 2 cents, and 5 cents (€0.01, €0.02, and €0.05).
Santiago also has a fine university which can be seen best from an alcove in the large municipal park in the centre of the city. The University ensures youth night life. Within the old town there are many narrow winding streets full of historic buildings. The new town all around it has less character though some of the older parts of the new town have some big apartments in them.
External links
- Official city site
- Live Cam of Obradoiro Façade
- confraternity of St. James
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Santiago de Compostela."
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Santiago de Cuba is the capital city of Santiago de Cuba Province in eastern Cuba. Santiago de Cuba is located on the south-east of the island, some 540 miles east south-east of Havana, at 20.01°N, 75.82°W. Historically Santiago de Cuba has long been the second most important city on the island after Havana, although is no longer the second largest. It is on a bay connected to the Caribbean Sea, and is an important sea port. In 2003 greater Santiago de Cuba had a population of about 500,000 people.
History
Santiago de Cuba was founded by Spanish Conquistador Diego Velasquez de Cuellar on June 28, 1514. From 1522 until 1589 Santiago was the capital of the Spanish colony of Cuba.The city was plundered by French forces in 1553, and by British forces in 1662.
The city experienced an influx of French immigrants in the late 18th century and early 19th century, some coming via Haiti. This added to the city's ecclectic cultural mix, already rich with Spanish and African culture.
See also the Battle of Santiago de Cuba, 1898
External Links
- About Santiago de Cuba
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Santiago de Cuba."
Synonym: SantiagoSynonym: capital of Chile (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Santiago |
| English words defined with "Santiago": Concepcion ♦ Santiago de Cuba. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Santiago": Diego ♦ Free Trade Agreement of the Americas. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Santiago" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Latin (st. james), Portuguese (Saint James, Santiago), Spanish (James). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I'm an educated man, but I can't speak intelligently about the travel habits of William Santiago. Please tell me that their lawyer hasn't pinned their hopes on a phone bill (A Few Good Men; writing credit: Aaron Sorkin) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Chile - Santiago Cuba - La Habana (1971) El Camino de Santiago (1970) Santiago (1970) En busca de Santiago Rusiñol (1969) Santiago querido! (1965) | |
Song Titles | Feels So Good (Show Me Love) (performing artist: Lina Santiago) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Airman 1st Class Julio Santiago. |  | [Aerial view of Santiago de Cuba]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | [View of Santiago de Cuba]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Photographed circa 1893-97. She was lost in the Battle of Santiago, Cuba, 3 July 1898. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Engraving published in "Harper's Weekly", July-December 1861 volume. It depicts thirteen merchant steamships acquired by the U.S. Navy between April and August 1861 and subsequently converted into warships, plus the steamer Nashville (far left), which became a Confederate cruiser. U.S. Navy ships, as identified below the image bottom, are (from left to right: Alabama, Quaker City, Santiago de Cuba (listed as "St. Jago de Cuba", Mount Vernon, Massachusetts, South Carolina, Florida, De Soto, Augusta, James Adger, Monticello, Bienville and R.R. Cuyler. Credit: NAVY. |  | Santiago de Cuba. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | El Pozo Centra, Santiago. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | The embarkation of Spanish troops, Santiago Harbor, Cuba. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Col. Hard and staff, 8th Ohio Vols.--on pier N.Y.--sailing day for Santiago. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Mortar battery on Cay Smith, Santiago. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "UA 6" by Lucien Aréstegüi Commentary: "URBAN ABSTRAK 06 Architect : Santiago Calatrava Milwuakee Art Museum http://www.calatrava.com." | "Oriente station at night" by Luis Alves Commentary: "The Oriente station by Santiago Calatrava was commissioned by the city of Lisbon in 1993, after an invited competition. Its immediate goal was to serve the great number of visitors expected for the World Expo in 1998. --------------------------- Notic" |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Chile is a centralized country whose capital, Santiago, accommodates approximately one fourth of the total population. (references) | |
Among them was 16-year-old Alfredo Ramirez Santiago, who was hanged by the neck from a tree and beaten on the head and body. (references) | ||
Delta & Continental Airlines are offering flights from Santiago de Chile (SGO), Rio de Janeiro (GIG), and Sao Paulo (GUA) in combination with other airlines. (references) | ||
Children | Chile | Although a 1994 law requires that new public buildings provide access for persons with disabilities, the public transportation system does not make provision for wheelchair access, and subway lines in the Santiago metropolitan area provide facilitated access for persons with disabilities only in some areas. (references) |
Civil Liberties | Guatemala | In April 2000, the Organization for American States (OAS) Special Rapporteur on the Freedom of Expression Santiago Canton visited the country. (references) |
Panama | Apparent government efforts to limit freedom of the press attracted the attention of the OAS's Special Rapporteur for freedom of the press, Santiago Canton, in part due to the lack of Panamanian media participation at the biannual meeting of the Inter-American Press Association in March. (references) | |
Economic History | Chile | The figure for Santiago is 97 percent. (references) |
Chile | Almost all the firms have their main offices in Santiago. (references) | |
Chile | The principle port is Valparaíso (80 miles from Santiago). (references) | |
Human Rights | Nicaragua | Voluntary police officer, Santiago Hernandez Perez, is suspected of being responsible for the shooting. (references) |
Mexico | Sergeant Brigido Santiago Ponciano Tepach was charged with homicide and unauthorized discharge of his weapons. (references) | |
Spain | On May 24, ETA assailants shot and killed Santiago Oleaga, the financial director of a major Basque Country newspaper. (references) | |
Political Economy | BOLIVIA | The Governments of the United States and Bolivia signed a Bilateral Investment Treaty during the Summit of the Americas in Santiago in April 1998, which came into effect on July 7, 2001. (references) |
Chile | On July 10, the Santiago Court of Appeals ruled that former president Pinochet was mentally unfit to stand trial, and temporarily suspended all legal proceedings in the Caravan of Death case against him pending an improvement in his condition. (references) | |
Trade | Argentina | This zone is 350 km from Santiago (Chile) and 430 km from the ports of Valparaiso and San Antonio (Chile). (references) |
Travel | Chile | Individuals temporarily residing outside Santiago should register at the corresponding Gobernacion. (references) |
Chile | Driving in Santiago is similar to the United States, although extra awareness will be helpful in a few areas. (references) | |
Chile | It may be obtained at the Registro de Servicios e Identificaciones, Of. de Extranjeria (Teatinos 950, Santiago, Chile). (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Santiago" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Santiago" is used about 216 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 100% | 216 | 20,583 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "Santiago" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Santiago | First name Male | 22,000 | 450 |
| Santiago | Last name | 35,000 | 308 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| "Santiago" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "the heel holder", "a supplanter". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "Santiago." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| James | Male | Biblical | Jacob |
| Jaume | Male | Catalan | James |
| Jacob | Male | Dutch | N/A |
| Jacob | Male | English | N/A |
| James | Male | English | Jacob |
| Jamey | Male | English | James |
| Jami | Female | English | James |
| Jamie | Female | English | James |
| Jamison | Male | English | James |
| Jaymes | Male | English | James |
| Jem | Male | English | James |
| Jemmy | Male | English | James |
| Jim | Male | English | James |
| Kimo | Male | Hawaiian | James |
| Séamas | Male | Irish | James |
| Séamus | Male | Irish | James |
| Giacomo | Male | Italian | James |
| Hemi | Male | Maori | James |
| Jaime | Male | Portuguese | James |
| Jacob | Male | Scandinavian | N/A |
| Jamesina | Female | Scottish | James |
| Jamie | Male | Scottish | James |
| Seumas | Male | Scottish | James |
| Diego | Male | Spanish | Santiago |
| Jaime | Male | Spanish | James |
| Santiago | Male | Spanish | James |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Country | Name |
| Chile | Banco Santiago |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "Santiago": gran Santiago ♦ Punta Santiago ♦ Santiago de Chile ♦ Santiago de Cuba ♦ Santiago de los Caballeros ♦ Santiago Ramon y Cajal. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "Santiago": santiago-based. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "Santiago"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 圣地亚哥. (various references) | |
Danish | Santiago. (various references) | |
Dutch | Santiago. (various references) | |
Finnish | Santiago. (various references) | |
French | Santiago. (various references) | |
German | Santiago de Chile. (various references) | |
Greek | Σαντιάγο· Σαντιάγκο. (various references) | |
Italian | Santiago. (various references) | |
Korean | 산티아고. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | antiagosay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | Santiago (Saint James). (various references) | |
Russian | сантьяго. (various references) | |
Spanish | Santiago (James). (various references) | |
Swedish | Santiago de Chile. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Santiago" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Manchago, Sandaig, Sandiga, Santomaso, Senchagov. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-g-i-n-o-s-t" | |
-1 letter: against, agnosia, agonist, antisag, gitanos. | |
-2 letters: gainst, giants, gitano, ingots, satang, sating, sonata, stingo, taigas, tangos, tigons, tongas. | |
-3 letters: again, agios, agist, agons, angas, angst, anoas, antas, antis, gains, gaits, giant, gnats, goats, gonia, ingot, iotas, ostia, saiga, saint, sanga, santo, satin, staig, stain, stang, sting, stoai, taiga, tains, tango, tangs, tigon, tings. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-g-i-n-o-s-t" | |
+1 letter: agnations, analogist, nostalgia. | |
+2 letters: agitations, analogists, antagonism, antagonist, aragonites, gradations, indagators, navigators, nostalgias, sabotaging, stagnation, vagotonias. | |
+3 letters: abnegations, abrogations, allegations, anatomising, angiomatous, angioplasty, angulations, antagonisms, antagonists, antagonizes, arrogations, assignation, associating, castigation, divagations, gestational, glaciations, graduations, indagations, nasogastric, navigations, outbargains, paginations, sailboating, stagflation, stagnations. | |
+4 letters: aggradations, aggravations, aggregations, alloantigens, anastomosing, antagonistic, apostatising, apostatizing, assignations, bastinadoing, broadcasting, castigations, coagulations, degradations, diagnostical, evaginations, gasification, gastrulation, granulations, gratulations, gravitations, gynecomastia, imaginations, inaugurators, marathonings, marginations, organisation, propagandist, propagations, sailboatings, scapegoating, stagflations, starboarding, sugarcoating, thingamabobs, variegations. | |
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