Coro

coro

An elaborate choir, at times almost an independent building, commonly placed to the west of the transept in a Spanish cathedral.

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The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Coro

 

a city in northwestern Venezuela, near the Caribbean Sea, the administrative center of the state of Falcón. Population, 54,800 (1969). Industry includes food processing, oil refining, and petrochemical production. Coro is also the commercial center of an agricultural region that has grain, coffee, sugarcane, and dairy cattle. It was founded in 1527.

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