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ID: 1016644
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1016644
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Cobán (inhabited place)  Cobán (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 15 28 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 15.4667  decimal degrees
Long: 090 20 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -90.3333  decimal degrees

Note: Named for Amerindian chieftain, Cabaóu; processing center for coffee, vanilla, livestock & hardwood; much of local industry declined after highway opened in 1958; Mayan ruins & Lanquín caves are nearby; city is transformed every August by a fiesta.

Names:
Cobán (preferred,C,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of North and Central America (continent)  ....  North and Central America (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Guatemala (nation)  ........  Guatemala (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Alta Verapaz (department)  ............  Alta Verapaz (department) (P)
Hierarchy of Cobán (inhabited place)  ................  Cobán (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  founded in 1538 near Mayan ruins
city (C)
department capital (C)
commercial center (H)
industrial center (H)

Sources and Contributors:
Cobán..........  [VP Preferred]
..............  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) II, 411
..............  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 47
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) II, 411
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 47
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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