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ID: 1020351
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1020351
Record Type:
administrative
Oruro (inhabited place)
Note:
Rose to prominence during colonial period as center in rich silver-mining region; declined with depleted silver deposits in 19th cen.; regained status with introduction of tin mining; copper & tungsten are processed nearby.
Names:
Oruro
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Real Villa de San Felipe de Austria
(
H
,
O
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
South America
(continent) (
P
)
........
Bolivia
(nation) (
P
)
............
Oruro
(department) (
P
)
................
Oruro
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded 1606
city (
C
)
regional capital (
C
)
transportation center (
C
)
educational center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Oruro..........
[
VP Preferred
]
..............
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
146
..............
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
901
Real Villa de San Felipe de Austria..........
[
VP
]
...........................................................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VIII, 1019
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VIII, 1019
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
146
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
901
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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