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Definition of Pasto
1. Noun. An active volcano in southeastern Colombia in the Andes.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pasto
Literary usage of Pasto
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Intercontinental Railway Commission by Intercontinental Railway Commission (1896)
"CHAPTER V. IPIALES TO pasto. CAMP, NEAR pasto, October 3d, 1891. Counting northward,
the Patía and the Cauca are the last of those six primary basins formed ..."
2. Life of Alexander Von Humboldt: Compiled in Commemoration of the Centenary by Julius Löwenberg, Robert Avé-Lallemant, Alfred Wilhelm Dove (1873)
"... Paramos of pasto—Arrival at Quito. HUMBOLDT had originally intended sailing
from the Rio Zenu to Porto Bello, thence up the Rio ..."
3. Travels in South America by William Bingley (1820)
"The roads both to and from pasto were excessively bad. ... In proceeding southward
from pasto, the travellers narrowly escaped being drowned, near the town ..."
4. The Geographical and Historical Dictionary of America and the West Indies by Antonio de Alcedo, George Alexander Thompson (1814)
"... a very lofty mountain of the province of pasto in the Nuevo Reyno de Granada,
near its capital ; on its top is a lake of more than 24 leagues long, ..."
5. Appletons' Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events (1875)
"In pasto were collected $643.50 to assist in printing copies of the Bible.
By virtue of a decree, issued on November 1, 1870, public instruction ceased to ..."
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