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ID: 1136323
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1136323
Record Type:
administrative
La Paz (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 24 10 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 24.1667
decimal degrees
Long: 110 18 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -110.3000
decimal degrees
Note:
Bay was sighted by Spanish in 1596; Jesuit mission was founded here in 18th cen., & town grew up soon afterwards; was held briefly by US filibuster William Walker in 1853; currently is the largest urban center in the state & a popular resort.
Names:
La Paz
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Paz, La
(
NA
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
........
México
(nation) (
P
)
............
Baja California Sur
(state) (
P
)
................
La Paz
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
mission was founded on site in 1720
city (
C
)
state capital (
C
)
port (
C
)
agricultural center (
C
)
fishing community (
C
)
tourist center (
C
)
resort (
C
)
capital (
H
)
............
of Baja California, when peninsula was divided between US & Mexico, 1828-1887
mission (
H
)
............
Jesuit, early 18th cen.
Sources and Contributors:
La Paz..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 503
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VII, 70
.................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
109
Paz, La..........
[
VP
]
.................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 503
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VII, 70
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-1676469
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
109
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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