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ID: 1019762
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1019762
Record Type:
administrative
Mendoza (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 32 48 00 S
degrees minutes
Lat: -32.8000
decimal degrees
Long: 068 52 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -68.8667
decimal degrees
Note:
Controlled by Spaniards until 1776; headquarters of expedition across the Andes to liberate Chile 1817; destroyed by earthquake 1861 & later rebuilt; is trade center for market gardens, orchards & vineyards; serves as gateway to Chile.
Names:
Mendoza
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
,
English-P
)
מנדוזה
(
C
,
U
,
Hebrew
)
Cuyo
(
H
,
O
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
South America
(continent) (
P
)
........
Argentina
(nation) (
P
)
............
Mendoza
(province) (
P
)
................
Mendoza
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded 1560s
city (
C
)
provincial capital (
C
)
industrial center (
C
)
transportation center (
C
)
educational center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
מנדוזה..........
[
IMJ
]
.................
Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
Cuyo..........
[
VP
]
...........
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VIII, 10-11
Mendoza..........
[
IMJ Preferred
,
VP Preferred
]
.................
Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
.................
Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994)
123
Subject:
.....
[
IMJ
,
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VIII, 10-11
..................
Israel Museum Jerusalem contribution (n.d.)
..................
Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994)
123
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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