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ID: 1002001
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Roraima (state)  Roraima (state)

Coordinates:
Lat: 01 00 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 1.0000  decimal degrees
Long: 061 00 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -61.0000  decimal degrees

Note: Covered with sparsely inhabited rain forest; some gold & diamonds are panned in streams; in 1970s N part of state was designated a reserve for Yanomano Indians, the nation's largest remaining isolated tribal group.

Names:
Roraima (preferred,C,V)
Roraima, Território de (C,V)
Rio Branco (H,V)  ............ from 1943-1962

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of South America (continent)  ....  South America (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Brazil (nation)  ........  Brazil (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Norte (region)  ............  Norte (region) (P)
Hierarchy of Roraima (state)  ................  Roraima (state) (P)

Place Types:
state (preferred, C)  ............  status raised from territory January 1, 1990
second level subdivision (C)
agricultural land (C)
jungle (C)
territory (H)  ............  from 1943-1990

Sources and Contributors:
Rio Branco..........  [VP]
.......................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) X, 177
Roraima..........  [VP Preferred]
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) X, 177-178
Roraima, Território de..........  [VP]
.........................................  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) X, 177; X, 177-178
..................  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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