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ID: 1017137
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1017137
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Celaya (inhabited place)  Celaya (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 20 31 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 20.5167  decimal degrees
Long: 100 49 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -100.8167  decimal degrees

Note: City played role in 19th-cen. Mexican history by changing hands several times during country's struggle for independence from Spain; the state's third largest city; birthplace of Francisco Eduardo Tresguerras, architect, sculptor, painter & poet.

Names:
Celaya (preferred,C,V)
Purísima Concepción de Celaya (H,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of North and Central America (continent)  ....  North and Central America (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of México (nation)  ........  México (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Guanajuato (state)  ............  Guanajuato (state) (P)
Hierarchy of Celaya (inhabited place)  ................  Celaya (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  founded 1571
city (C)
agricultural center (C)
transportation center (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Celaya..........  [VP Preferred]
.................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 41
Purísima Concepción de Celaya..........  [VP]
..................................................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) III, 8
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) III, 8
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -1656126
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 41
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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