Meanings
proper noun
- A district of Talamanca canton, Limon, Costa Rica.
Bloch told CNN on Friday that the discovery is significant in part because of the “dramatic events involved with (the ships’) journey from Copenhagen to West Africa, and from there to the shores of Cahuita in Costa Rica.”
2025 May 2, Amarachi Orie, “Archaeologists discover true identity of Costa Rica shipwrecks long thought to be pirate ships”, in CNN
Origin
- SpanishCahuita
- EnglishCahuita
Borrowed from Spanish Cahuita.
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APA
Cahuita. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Cahuita
MLA
“Cahuita.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Cahuita. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Cahuita,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Cahuita.
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