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Coronel

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Coronel (kōrōnĕl`), city (1990 est. pop. 74,090), S central Chile, a port on the Pacific Ocean. It is a major coaling station and a shipping point for lumber and the coal from nearby mines. In a naval engagement off Coronel on Nov. 1, 1914, during World War I, German Admiral Graf von Spee defeated a British squadron under Sir Christopher Cradock, a triumph offset later by the battle of the Falklands.


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The rain helped make it a successful afternoon for the more unheralded drivers, with the Lada of Jaap van Lagen fourth quickest and another independent Tom Coronel seventh.
As if to allay any doubt that the remains belong to victims of the dictatorship, they were found in a place locals call "Pastor Coronel Cementerio kue," which in Guarani--an official language along with Spanish--means Pastor Coronel's Cemetery.
Coronel is alleged to have assaulted two women at a Boylston Street apartment early on Jan.
 
 
 
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