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ID: 1016690
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1016690
Record Type:
administrative
Puerto Barrios (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 15 41 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 15.6833
decimal degrees
Long: 088 32 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -88.5333
decimal degrees
Note:
Foreign investors built deepwater Atlantic port as commercial outlet in early 20th cen.; after conflicts between investors & government, was superseded by government-owned port built to the S; was heavily damaged in earthquake of 1976.
Names:
Puerto Barrios
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
........
Guatemala
(nation) (
P
)
............
Izabal
(department) (
P
)
................
Puerto Barrios
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
city (
C
)
department capital (
C
)
port (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Puerto Barrios..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.............................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
IX, 786
.............................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
158
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
IX, 786
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
158
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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