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Is “cabecera” commonly used in Spanish for "capital"?
I'm from Spain and that term is not commonly used here in the sense that you point.
Capital is the preferred word to mark a city as the principal in a country, a province or a district, where the ...
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Is “cabecera” commonly used in Spanish for "capital"?
I'd say it depends. For example, in Argentina the country is divided in provinces, which are divided in municipalities or departments. Their administrative centres are called cabeceras, so in that ...
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Does muñeca (doll) have a non-ñ form?
Etymology of muñeca
The etymology of muñeca is thus:
Old Spanish monneca > munneca > Spanish muñeca
In Old Spanish, ñ was written nn, but the sound was the same. There do exist occasional ...
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Is “cabecera” commonly used in Spanish for "capital"?
Cabecera is a common term in Mexico to refer to the location (city, town or otherwise) of administrative powers within a local government demarcation or municipio, thus the term Cabecera Municipal.
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Is “cabecera” commonly used in Spanish for "capital"?
Cabecera is what we learned in grade school in Guatemala, for both capital cities and regional capitals like cabecera departamental. It's used in daily language.
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Is “cabecera” commonly used in Spanish for "capital"?
Todo depende del país.
En Colombia, el primer nivel de la división politco-administrativa es el departamento y estos a su vez se dividen en municipios.
Se le denomina capital al municipio que ...
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Tagalog y español
Aunque lo siguiente es anecdótico, viene bien compartirlo. Está en un foro de aprendizaje de idiomas y quien escribe es un hablante nativo de tagalo, bilingüe (como es habitual) en inglés:
Since ...
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Is “cabecera” commonly used in Spanish for "capital"?
not in Spain again, that's the very first time I hear of it. I use 'capital', there are other words but they mean something else 'la ciudad principal de Galicia', it refers to the biggest city in ...
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Is “cabecera” commonly used in Spanish for "capital"?
Cabecera is also very common in Nicaragua, but not really used to refer to the Capital city of the Country, however, Nicaragua is divided into departments and each department has a Cabecera ...
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