Santiago

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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.

• 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

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.

See also:

• Battle of Santiago de Cuba

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