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ID: 1024783
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1024783
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Tacna (inhabited place)  Tacna (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 18 00 00 S  degrees minutes   Lat: -18.0000  decimal degrees
Long: 070 15 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -70.2500  decimal degrees

Note: Settled by Aymara Indians; prospered during colonial times; on silver trade route from Potosí & Bolivia; declined after depletion of mines, gained fame during war for independence from Spain 1800s; taken by Chileans 1880s, returned to Peru 1929.

Names:
Tacna (preferred,C,V)
San Pedro de Tacna (H,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of South America (continent)  ....  South America (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Peru (nation)  ........  Peru (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Tacna (region (administrative division))  ............  Tacna (region (administrative division)) (P)
Hierarchy of Tacna (inhabited place)  ................  Tacna (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  settled by Spaniards since 16th cen.
town (C)
regional capital (C)
agricultural center (C)
transportation center (C)

Sources and Contributors:
San Pedro de Tacna..........  [VP]
...................................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) XI, 489
Tacna..........  [VP Preferred]
..............  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) XI, 489
..............  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 192
..............  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 1179
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) XI, 489
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 192
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 1179
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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