Definition of Guaira

1. Noun. A great waterfall on the border between Brazil and Paraguay.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Guaira

Grógaldr
Gua
Guadalajara
Guadalcanal
Guadalupe Island
Guadalupe Mountains
Guadalupe Mountains National Park
Guadalupe cypress
Guadeloupe
Guadeloupean
Guadeloupian
Guadeloupians
Guaiacum officinale
Guaiacum sanctum
Guaira
Guaira Falls
Guallatiri
Guama virus
Guamanian
Guan Yin
Guanabara
Guanajuato
Guanche
Guanches
Guangdong
Guangdong province
Guangxi
Guangzhou
Guanhua

Literary usage of Guaira

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Ernest Alfred Benians, George Walter Prothero, Sir Adolphus William Ward (1907)
"Not only in guaira but on almost every frontier the missionaries, especially the Jesuits, pushed forward the dominions of the King and the Church; ..."

2. The Geographical and Historical Dictionary of America and the West Indies by Antonio de Alcedo, George Alexander Thompson (1812)
"The trader sometimes comes to guaira to receive a cargo, purchased or shipped for him ... Nothing is suffered to remain at guaira but what may be for the ..."

3. Venezuela, a Commercial and Industrial Handbook: A Commercial and Industrial by United States Dept. of Commerce, Purl Lord Bell (1922)
"PORT OF LA guaira. The commercial district of Caracas has one large seaport, La guaira, which is at the same time the principal seaport of the country. ..."

4. Venezuela, a Commercial and Industrial Handbook: A Commercial and Industrial by United States Dept. of Commerce, Purl Lord Bell (1922)
"PORT OF LA guaira. The commercial district of Caracas has one large seaport, La guaira, which is at the same time the principal seaport of the country. ..."

5. Venezuela: Or, Sketches of Life in a South American Republic: with the by Edward B. Eastwick (1868)
"It is not so at La guaira. In fact, La guaira is no port, but an open roadstead, where, though it seldom blows very heavily, there is ever a high swell, ..."

6. Venezuela by Leonard Victor Dalton (1912)
"CHAPTER VIII THE STATES OF THE "CENTRO" La guaira—Heat—Port works—The Brighton of Venezuela—Sugar plantations—Streets and ..."

7. Venezuela, an Economic Report by Georgetown University, School of Foreign Service (1921)
"PORT OF LA guaira Formerly considered one of the most dangerous harbors on the Caribbean coast, La guaira is to-day Venezuela's leading port and the ..."

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