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ID: 1021148
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1021148
Record Type:
administrative
Caxias (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 04 53 00 S
degrees minutes
Lat: -4.8833
decimal degrees
Long: 043 20 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -43.3333
decimal degrees
Note:
Commercial center for E portion of state; processes rice, cotton, sugar, carauba & cashews; named after Luiz Alves de Lima e Silva Caxias, 19th-cen. military hero; accessible by rail & highway.
Names:
Caxias
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
,
O
)
São José das Aldeias Altas
(
H
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
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South America
(continent) (
P
)
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Brasil
(nation) (
P
)
............
Maranhão
(state) (
P
)
................
Caxias
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
city (
C
)
commercial center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Caxias..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
II, 979
.................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-636686
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
41
São José das Aldeias Altas..........
[
VP
]
...............................................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
II, 979
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
II, 979
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-636686
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
41
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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