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(Encyclopedia) Misti, El ĕl mēˈstē [key], dormant volcano, c.19,150 ft (5,840 m) high, in the Cordillera Occidental, S Peru, rising over the city of Arequipa. El Misti is flanked by two other volcanos—on the N...

(Encyclopedia) El Cajon ĕl kähōnˈ [key], city (2020 pop. 106,215), San Diego co., S Calif.; inc. 1912. E...

(Encyclopedia) Cobre, El ĕl kōˈbrā [key], town, Santiago de Cuba prov., SE Cuba, in a high valley of the Sierra Maestra. Once famous for rich copper mines (hence the name El Cobre), it is chiefly noted for a shr...

(Encyclopedia) El Alto ĕl älˈtō [key], city, La Paz dept., W Bolivia. A burgeoning suburb of La Paz that became a city in 1988, ...

(Encyclopedia) El Reno ĕl rēˈnō [key], city (2020 pop. 16,989), seat of Canadian co., central Okla.; inc. ...

(Encyclopedia) Salvador, El: see El Salvador.

(Encyclopedia) Jadida, El: see El Jadida, Morocco. ...

(Encyclopedia) El Alamein: see Alamein, El, Egypt. ...

(Encyclopedia) Faiyum, El fīyo͞omˈ [key], region, coextensive with El Faiyum governorate, N Egypt, W of the Nile River, a depression (entirely below sea level) in the Libyan (or Western) Desert. It is an irrigat...

(Encyclopedia)  Reynolds, Debbie, 1932-2016, American actress, singer, and dancer, b. El Paso, Tx., as Mary Frances Reynolds. Reynolds’ family relocated from El Paso...