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ID: 1019093
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1019093
Record Type:
administrative
San Fernando (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 10 16 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 10.2667
decimal degrees
Long: 061 28 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -61.4667
decimal degrees
Note:
Second largest town on Trinidad; originally was a Carib settlement, then a Capuchin mission; site was included in a land grant of 1786; was ruined by fire in 1818; town was rebuilt & extended to present boundaries by 1846.
Names:
San Fernando
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
............
named for King Ferdinand II of Aragon
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
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North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
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Trinidad and Tobago
(nation) (
P
)
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San Fernando
(city) (
P
)
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San Fernando
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
originally a Carib settlement, most recently rebuilt after being destroyed in 1818
town (
C
)
port (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
San Fernando..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.......................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
X, 388
.......................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
175
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
X, 388
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
175
Note:
English
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[
VP
]
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