Santa Rosa
a city and county-seat of Sonoma co., Cal.; on Santa Rosa creek, and on the Southern Pacific, the Petaluma and Santa Rosa and the Northwestern Pacific railroads; 52 miles N. by W. of San Francisco. It is in a fertile valley and has a delightful climate, highly adapted to the culture of grapes and other fruit. The experimental gardens of Luther Burbank are located here. It contains several educational institutions, a National bank, and daily and weekly newspapers. There are manufactories of iron, soap. carriages; fruit canning, etc. Pop. (1910) 7,817; (1920) 8,758.
SANTIAGO DE CUBA east the white summit of Aconcagua with some lesser heights of the Andes may be seen. The city itself is undulating and its central part is the red porphyry hillock of Santa Lucia, the stronghold of the first settlers besieged by the Arauconion Indians. It has magnificent streets and buildings, with highly developed street railways. The great apartment houses and private dwellings are extremely artistic and luxurious and its boulevards, among them the Alameda, are among the finest in America. The Hall of Congress, Exposition Palace, opera house, cathedral, University building, National library, National museum are all magnificent nt buildings. Pop. (1918) 415,641.