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Santiago

Santiago is Spanish and Portuguese for the Apostle St. James (from the joining of Sant’, saint + Iago, Iacobus — Latin for Jacob). He is the patron saint of Spain and his name is revered throughout the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking world. Although the Spanish San Diego can also be translated as St. James, San Diego usually refers to Didacus of Alcalá.

Santiago is the name of:

In Argentina: Santiago del Estero Province
Santiago del Estero, capital of the province

In Brazil: Santiago, Rio Grande do Sul

In Cape Verde: Santiago, Cape Verde

In Chile: Santiago, Chile, the capital
Santiago (commune)
Santiago Province, Chile
Santiago Metropolitan Region

In Colombia: Santiago de Cali
Santiago, Norte de Santander
Santiago, Putumayo

In Costa Rica: Santiago de Palmares
Santiago de Paraíso
Santiago de Puriscal
Santiago de San Rafael
Santiago de San Ramón

In Cuba: Santiago de Cuba Province
Santiago de Cuba, capital of the province

In Dominican Republic: Santiago Province (Dominican Republic)
Santiago de los Caballeros, capital of the province

In Ecuador: Guayaquil, officially called Santiago de Guayaquil
Santiago Island (Galápagos)

In Guatemala: Santiago Sacatepéquez

In Jamaica: Jamaica, formerly known as Santiago
Spanish Town, Jamaica, formerly known as Santiago de la Vega

In Mexico: Querétaro, Querétaro, formerly called Santiago de Querétaro
Santiago, Nuevo León
Santiago, Baja California Sur
Santiago Maravatío (Guanajuato)
Santiago Tianguistenco, a city in the State of México
Santiago Jamiltepec (Oaxaca)

In Nicaragua: León, Nicaragua, originally called Santiago de los Caballeros de León

In Panama: Santiago de Veraguas, Veraguas

In Paraguay: Santiago, Paraguay, town and district in Misiones Department

In Peru: Santiago de Cusco, a district of Cusco
Santiago de Surco, a district of Lima
Santiago de Chuco, a province of the La Libertad region
Santiago River (Peru)

In the Philippines: Santiago, Agusan del Norte
Santiago, General Trias, Cavite
Santiago, Ilocos Sur
Santiago City, Isabela province
Santiago Island (Philippines), Pangasinan province

In Portugal: Santiago (Alcácer do Sal), a parish in the municipality of Alcácer do Sal
Santiago (Arganil), a parish in the municipality of Arganil
Santiago (Armamar), a parish in the municipality of Armamar
Santiago (Lisbon), a parish in the municipality of Lisbon
Santiago (Seia), a parish in the municipality of Seia
Santiago (Sesimbra), a parish in the municipality of Sesimbra
Santiago (Tavira), a parish in the municipality of Tavira
Santiago (Torres Novas), a parish in the municipality of Torres Novas
Santiago da Guarda, a parish in the municipality of Ansião
Santiago da Ribeira de Alhariz, a parish in the municipality of Valpaços
Santiago de Besteiros, a parish in the municipality of Tondela
Santiago de Bougado, a parish in the municipality of Trofa
Santiago de Candoso, a parish in the municipality of Guimarães
Santiago do Cacém, a parish and a municipality in the Setúbal
Santiago de Carreiras, a parish in the municipality of Vila Verde
Santiago de Cassurrães, a parish in the municipality of Mangualde
Santiago de Figueiró, a parish in the municipality of Amarante
Santiago de Litém, a parish in the municipality of Pombal
Santiago de Montalegre, a parish in the municipality of Sardoal
Santiago de Piães, a parish in the municipality of Cinfães
Santiago de Riba-Ul, a parish in the municipality of Oliveira de Azeméis
Santiago de Subarrifana, a parish in the municipality of Penafiel
Santiago de Vila Chã, a parish in the municipality of Ponte da Barca
Santiago do Escoural, a parish in the municipality of Montemor-o-Novo
Santiago dos Velhos, a parish in the municipality of Arruda dos Vinhos
São Pedro e Santiago, a parish in the municipality of Torres Vedras
Santiago Maior (Alandroal), a parish in the municipality of Alandroal
Santiago Maior (Beja), a parish in the municipality of Beja
Santiago Maior (Castelo de Vide), a parish in the municipality of Castelo de Vide
Vale de Santiago, a parish in the municipality of Odemira

In Spain: Santiago de Compostela, Galicia
Santiago (Valdés), a parish in the municipality of Valdés
Santiago (Sariego), a parish in the municipality of Sariego
Santiago de la Ribera, a cluster of San Javier in Murcia
Santiago (comarca), a comarca in the province of A Coruña
Santiago del Teide, Canary Islands

In the United States: Santiago High School, Garden Grove, California
Santiago, Pennsylvania, in Allegheny County
Santiago Peak, a mountain in Orange County, California

In Uruguay: Montevideo, originally called San Felipe y Santiago de Montevideo

In Venezuela: Caracas, originally called Santiago de León de Caracas

In geography: Santiago River, a tributary of the Amazon River

Santiago is the name of:

Benito Santiago, a professional baseball catcher
Hugo Santiago, film director
Joey Santiago, guitarist of the Pixies and The Martinis
Tony Santiago, author, historian
Rafael Santiago Maria, a Brazilian footballer known simply as Santiago
Richard Santiago, a Puerto Rican boxer
Santiago Amador, a Colombian road cyclist
Santiago Cabrera, an actor
Santiago Palavecino, an Argentine boxer
James, son of Zebedee, also called Saint James the Greater

Fictional people:

Dominic Santiago, a fictional character from Gears of War
Santiago Arnavisca, a fictional character from Rainbow Six: Covert Operations Essentials
Santiago, the name of a character in Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez
Santiago, the titular character of Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea
Luis Santiago, a fictional character in the television series Babylon 5
Santiago, a character from Mike Resnick's novels Santiago: a Myth of the Far Future (1986), and The Return of Santiago (2003)
Santiago (The Vampire Chronicles), character in Anne Rice's novel Interview with the Vampire
Santiago, the main character of Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist (novel)
Santiago, a character on the television show Friday Night Lights

In history: Battle of Santiago de Cuba

In music: Santiago (band), an indie/punk band from Santa Rosa, California, USA
Santiago, a 1996 album by The Chieftains
"Santiago", the title of one of Loreena McKennitt's songs from her album The Mask and Mirror

Ships: Santiago (1856 ship), a British barque now in the ship's graveyard in Port River, Adelaide
Santiago (ship), an American steamer barge

Santiago may also refer to:

Order of Santiago, a Spanish Knightly order
Santiago (name), about the common Spanish given name
"Santiago", a shortened form of the Reconquista battle cry "Santiago y cierra España"

See also

Santiago Maior
San Diego (disambiguation)
Santiago Island

Source: Wikipedia

Translation

The word "Santiago" occurs as such in the following languages: English, Breton, Catalan, Czech, German, Spanish, Esperanto, French, Ido, Luxembourgish, Hungarian, Malay, Dutch, Norwegian (Bokmål), Low Saxon, Polish, Portuguese, Slovak, Slovenian, Finnish, Turkish, Vietnamese.

Translation(s) in other languages: Belarusian (Taraškievica): Сант'яга, Bulgarian: Сантяго, Welsh: Santiago (gwahaniaethu), Danish: Santiago (flertydig), Greek: Σαντιάγο (αποσαφήνιση), Galician: Santiago (homónimos), Korean: 산티아고, Italian: Santiago (disambigua), Hebrew: סנטיאגו, Georgian: სანტიაგო, Lithuanian: Santjagas, Japanese: サンティアゴ, Romanian: Santiago (dezambiguizare), Russian: Сантьяго (значения), Serbian: Сантијаго (вишезначна одредница), Swedish: Santiago (olika betydelser), Chinese: 圣地亚哥.


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