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ID: 1135591
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1135591
Record Type:
physical
Ángel, Salto (waterfall)
Coordinates:
Lat: 05 57 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 5.9500
decimal degrees
Long: 062 30 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -62.5000
decimal degrees
Note:
Highest waterfall in the world; drops from plateau in Guiana Highlands to a total 979 m; named for US pilot Jimmy Angel who crashed in area in 1937.
Names:
Ángel, Salto
(
preferred
,
C
,
O
)
Salto Ángel
(
C
,
V
,
display
)
Angel Falls
(
C
,
O
)
Churún-Merú
(
C
,
O
)
Salto del Angel
(
C
,
O
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
South America
(continent) (
P
)
........
Venezuela
(nation) (
P
)
............
Bolívar
(state) (
P
)
................
Ángel, Salto
(waterfall) (
P
)
Place Types:
waterfall (
preferred
,
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Angel Falls..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990)
24
Ángel, Salto..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.......................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
Churún-Merú..........
[
VP
]
.......................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
Salto Ángel..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Getty Vocabulary Program rules
Salto del Angel..........
[
VP
]
.............................
Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994)
13
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990)
24
..................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
..................
Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994)
13
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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