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ID: 1016470
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1016470
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Benemérita de San Cristóbal (inhabited place)  Benemérita de San Cristóbal (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 18 25 07 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 18.4180  decimal degrees
Long: 070 06 28 W  degrees minutes   Long: -70.1070  decimal degrees

Note: Located in coastal lowlands; founded by Spaniards after gold was discovered in the region; site of signing of nation's first constitution in 1844.

Names:
Benemérita de San Cristóbal (preferred,C,V)
San Cristóbal (C,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of North and Central America (continent)  ....  North and Central America (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Dominican Republic (nation)  ........  Dominican Republic (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of San Cristóbal (province)  ............  San Cristóbal (province) (P)
Hierarchy of Benemérita de San Cristóbal (inhabited place)  ................  Benemérita de San Cristóbal (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  founded in 1575
city (C)
provincial capital (C)
commercial center (C)
transportation center (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Benemérita de San Cristóbal..........  [VP Preferred]
...............................................  NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-) accessed 11 March 2014
...............................................  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
San Cristóbal..........  [VP]
..........................  Britannica Book of the Year (1992) 587
..........................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) X, 386
..........................  NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-) accessed 11 March 2014
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Britannica Book of the Year (1992) 587
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) X, 386
..................  NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-) accessed 11 March 2014
..................  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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