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ID: 1023475
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1023475
Record Type:
administrative
Iquique (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 20 13 15 S
degrees minutes
Lat: -20.2208
decimal degrees
Long: 070 08 35 W
degrees minutes
Long: -70.1431
decimal degrees
Note:
Located on peninsula in Atacama Desert; damaged by earthquakes 1868 & 1875; was nation's main export port for nitrate in 19th & early 20th cen.; city declined after fall of nitrate prices, but is reviving with new port & new industries.
Names:
Iquique
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
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South America
(continent) (
P
)
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Chile
(nation) (
P
)
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Tarapacá
(region (administrative division)) (
P
)
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Iquique
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded 16th cen.
city (
C
)
regional capital (
C
)
port (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Iquique..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VI, 374
.................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................
Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994)
88
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VI, 374
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-885082
..................
Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994)
88
Note:
English
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[
VP
]
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