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Veracruz

Index: El Aleph, El Aleph, OC,Obras completas. Buenos Aires: Emecé, 1974. 620.
Type
P

port city and in Mexico

Fishburn and Hughes: "A town on the Gulf of Mexico. Cortés landed there in 1519 and prepared for his march inland, destroying his boats in a dramatic gesture. It became one of the principal ports of call on the West Indies trade route." (207)