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ID: 1024554
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1024554
Record Type:
administrative
Iquitos (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 03 46 00 S
degrees minutes
Lat: -3.7667
decimal degrees
Long: 073 15 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -73.2500
decimal degrees
Note:
Chief port for region during rubber boom of late 19th cen.; population declined with decline of production after 1912; city revived in 1950s with new economic development of E Peru; is a center for oil exploration.
Names:
Iquitos
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
South America
(continent) (
P
)
........
Peru
(nation) (
P
)
............
Loreto
(region (administrative division)) (
P
)
................
Iquitos
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded at site of Amerindian village, 1864
city (
C
)
regional capital (
C
)
port (
C
)
educational center (
C
)
religious center (
C
)
tourist center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Iquitos..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VI, 374
.................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VI, 374
..................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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