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ID: 1000520
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1000520
Record Type:
administrative
Baja Verapaz (department)
Coordinates:
Lat: 15 05 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 15.0833
decimal degrees
Long: 090 20 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -90.3333
decimal degrees
Note:
Mountainous department located in central portion of nation; transversed west to east by Sierra de Chuacús; Río Grande forms southern border with Guatemala department; economy based on nickel mining south of city of Salamá.
Names:
Baja Verapaz
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Baja Verapaz, Departamento de
(
C
,
V
)
Departamento de Baja Verapaz
(
C
,
V
,
O
)
GT02
(
C
,
U
,
FIPS
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
........
Guatemala
(nation) (
P
)
............
Baja Verapaz
(department) (
P
)
Place Types:
department (
preferred
,
C
)
first level subdivision (
C
)
mining center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Baja Verapaz..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.......................
Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990)
54
.......................
GeoNames online [n.d.]
3599602
.......................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-)
accessed 14 February 2014
.......................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-1131725
Baja Verapaz, Departamento de..........
[
VP
]
..................................................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
Departamento de Baja Verapaz..........
[
VP
]
...............................................
GeoNames online [n.d.]
3599602
...............................................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-)
accessed 24 February 2014
...............................................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-1131725
GT02..........
[
VP
]
...........
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990)
54
..................
GeoNames online [n.d.]
3599602
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-1131725
..................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
..................
Wikipedia (2000-)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baja_Verapaz_Department
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
..........
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