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ID: 1024140
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1024140
Record Type:
administrative
Portoviejo (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 01 03 16 S
degrees minutes
Lat: -1.0540
decimal degrees
Long: 080 27 16 W
degrees minutes
Long: -80.4540
decimal degrees
Note:
Town was moved to current site in 1628 after raids by native people; products include coffee, cacao, cotton, sugarcane, balsa wood, Panama hats, baskets and hammocks; linked with Quito and Guayaquil by air and road.
Names:
Portoviejo
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
South America
(continent) (
P
)
........
Ecuador
(nation) (
P
)
............
Manabí
(province) (
P
)
................
Portoviejo
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
originally founded near shore by Spanish colonists 1535
town (
C
)
provincial capital (
C
)
educational center (
C
)
............
technical university established 1952
Sources and Contributors:
Portoviejo..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.......................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
IX, 631
.......................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-)
accesed 17 January 2014
.......................
Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994)
154
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
IX, 631
..................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-)
accesed 17 January 2014
..................
Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994)
154
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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