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ID: 1017116
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1017116
Record Type:
administrative
Cancún (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 21 10 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 21.1667
decimal degrees
Long: 086 50 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -86.8333
decimal degrees
Note:
Formerly a small Mayan fishing village; was developed as an international resort center; currently has a steady flow of tourists from all over the world.
Names:
Cancún
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Ciudad Cancún
(
NA
,
V
)
Cancúne
(
H
,
V
)
............
as named by US & British explorers, 1843
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
........
México
(nation) (
P
)
............
Quintana Roo
(state) (
P
)
................
Cancún
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
first settled by Mayas around 250 AD
city (
C
)
tourist center (
C
)
transportation center (
C
)
resort (
C
)
fishing community (
H
)
............
until 1970
Related geographic places:
near/adjacent to ....
Cancun-Isla Mujeres Marine Park
.......... (park)
..............................
(World, North and Central America, México, Quintana Roo) [8712376]
Sources and Contributors:
Cancún..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
38
Cancúne..........
[
VP
]
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
II, 797
Ciudad Cancún..........
[
VP
]
..........................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
II, 797
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-1655011
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
38
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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