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ID: 1023724
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1023724
Record Type:
administrative
Barranquilla (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 11 10 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 11.1667
decimal degrees
Long: 074 50 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -74.8333
decimal degrees
Note:
Located in N Colombia on Magdalena river; prospered after construction of railroad to satellite ports in 1930s; produces cement, flour & textiles; river channel was deepened for ocean-going vessels in 1935.
Names:
Barranquilla
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
South America
(continent) (
P
)
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Colombia
(nation) (
P
)
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Atlántico
(department) (
P
)
................
Barranquilla
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded 1629
city (
C
)
regional capital (
C
)
port (
C
)
educational center (
C
)
transportation center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Barranquilla..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.......................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
I, 912
.......................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
22
.......................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
119
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
I, 912
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
22
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
119
Note:
English
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[
VP
]
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