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ID: 1018708
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1018708
Record Type:
administrative
Bluefields (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 12 00 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 12.0000
decimal degrees
Long: 083 49 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -83.8167
decimal degrees
Note:
Nicaragua's most important port on Caribbean; exports cabinet woods, frozen fish, shrimp, lobsters & bananas; nation's president requested American Marine presence here to suppress revolutionary activity in early 20th cen.
Names:
Bluefields
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
........
Nicaragua
(nation) (
P
)
............
Costa Caribe Sur
(autonomous region) (
P
)
................
Bluefields
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
city (
C
)
department capital (
C
)
port (
C
)
commercial center (
C
)
capital (
H
)
............
of British Mosquito Coast protectorate until its return to Nicaragua 1850
Sources and Contributors:
Bluefields..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.......................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
II, 301
.......................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
30
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
II, 301
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
30
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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