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Port (trading in coffee, tobacco, and
vanilla) in E Mexico, on the Gulf of Mexico;
population (1980) 305,456. Products include
chemicals, sisal, and textiles. It was
founded by the Spanish conquistador Cortes as
Villa Nueva de la Vera Cruz (`new town of the
true cross') on a nearby site 1519 and
transferred to its present site 1599.