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ID: 1017843
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1017843
Record Type:
administrative
Mazatlán (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 23 13 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 23.2167
decimal degrees
Long: 106 25 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -106.4167
decimal degrees
Note:
Occupies peninsula overlooking Olas Atlas Bay on Gulf of California; Mexico's largest Pacific Ocean port; noted for fine sandy beaches; its location provides chief communications link between peninsula & mainland; a fishing & hunting center.
Names:
Mazatlán
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Pearl of the Pacific
(
C
,
O
)
Ciudad Mazatlán
(
NA
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
........
Mexico
(nation) (
P
)
............
Sinaloa
(state) (
P
)
................
Mazatlán
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
city (
C
)
port (
C
)
tourist center (
C
)
resort (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Ciudad Mazatlán..........
[
VP
]
.............................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
Mazatlán..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
124
Pearl of the Pacific..........
[
VP
]
...................................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VII, 981
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VII, 981
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-1682941
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
124
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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