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ID: 1017110
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1017110
Record Type:
administrative
Campeche (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 19 50 38 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 19.8430
decimal degrees
Long: 090 31 32 W
degrees minutes
Long: -90.5250
decimal degrees
Note:
Founded on site of Mayan village; was one of three ports that had monopoly of trade on Yucatán Peninsula in 18th century; declined, but has revived with discovery of offshore oilfields; noted for colonial churches.
Names:
Campeche
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
San Francisco de Campeche
(
C
,
V
)
Campeche de Baranda
(
H
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
........
México
(nation) (
P
)
............
Campeche
(state) (
P
)
................
Campeche
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded 1540
city (
C
)
state capital (
C
)
............
since 1863
port (
C
)
............
opened 18th cen.
trade center (
C
)
transportation center (
C
)
educational center (
C
)
capital (
H
)
............
of Yucatán, early 19th cen.
village (
H
)
Sources and Contributors:
Campeche..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
38
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
209
Campeche de Baranda..........
[
VP
]
...................................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
II, 778
San Francisco de Campeche..........
[
VP
]
............................................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-)
accessed 1 June 2017
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
II, 778
..................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-)
accessed 1 June 2017
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-1654644
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
38
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
209
Note:
English
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[
VP
]
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