San José

[ sahn haw-se ]

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noun

San Jose

[ san hoh-zey ]

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San Jose

/ ˌsæn həʊˈzeɪ /

a city in W central California: a leading world centre of the fruit drying and canning industry. Pop: 898 349 (2003 est)

San José

/ saŋ xoˈse /

the capital of Costa Rica, on the central plateau: a major centre of coffee production in the mid-19th century; University of Costa Rica (1843). Pop: 1 145 000 (2005 est)

San Jose

Center for the electronics and high-tech (see also high-tech ) industries. ( See Silicon Valley .)

Their workplace, Mina San José, was so notoriously dangerous that the men gave themselves the nickname the Kamikazes.

The idea that this creek came out opposite the town of San José is manifestly an error.

After leaving Mission San José in the evening, his party traveled till dawn.

Amador, on his expedition of 1797, reached them in less than twenty-four hours from Mission San José.

Until 1803 converts were identified in the San José records largely by direction.

Consequently these places must have been in the interior valleys, east and northeast of Mission San José.

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