Cacapon
or GREAT CACAPON, a river in West Virginia. It flows nearly N. W. through Hampshire and Morgan counties, and enters the Potomac about 5 miles from Berkeley Springs. Its length is about 140 miles.
CÁCERES (kä'thā-rās), the second largest province of Spain, in the N. of Estremadura, owned chiefly by large proprietors, and mostly devoted to cattle-raising; the N. half is a good wine country. The area is 7,667 square miles, and the population about 425,000.
The capital , Cáceres, 45 miles N. of Merida by rail, is famous for its bacon and sausages, and has a bull-ring of granite, dye-works, and manufactures the Castra Cæcilia of the Romans, by of woolens, crockery, and rope. It was whom it was founded in 74 B. C.; and here the allied forces defeated the rearguard of the Duke of Berwick, April 7, 1706. Pop. about 17,500.