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Santiago

"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.

• Santiago is the capital city of Chile
• Santiago is a city in Panama
• Santiago de los Caballeros is a city in the Dominican Republic
• Santiago de Compostela is the capital of Galicia, Spain
• Santiago de Cuba is a city in eastern Cuba
• Santiago del Estero is a city in northern Argentina
• Santiago de Guayaquil (more often known as "Guayaquil") is the largest city in Ecuador
• Santiago de Querétaro (formerly, "Querétaro") is the capital of the Mexican state of Querétaro

Other things named Santiago:

• Santiago Island, one of the islands of Cape Verde
• Santiago River, a tributary of the Amazon

Historic uses of the name:

• Santiago was the Spanish name given to the island of Xamayca, now called Jamaica.
• Santiago was the Spanish battle cry

See also:

• Battle of Santiago de Cuba

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