Arecibo (ärəsēˈbō) [key], city (1990 pop. 93,385), N Puerto
Rico, a port on the Atlantic Ocean at the mouth of the Rio
Grande de Arecibo. It has rum distilleries and is the commercial
and industrial center of a region that produces coffee, tobacco,
sugarcane, and pineapples. The Arecibo Observatory, an important
radio-astronomy facility, is nearby. Arecibo was founded in
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