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ID: 7007109
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7007109
Record Type:
administrative
Cuernavaca (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 18 55 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 18.9167
decimal degrees
Long: 099 15 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -99.2500
decimal degrees
Note:
Was capital of Tlahuica Indians; captured by Cortés 1521; served as seat of marquessate of valley of Oaxaca during colonial era; has many pre-Colombian ruins; industries include bottling plants, flour mills, cement factories & textile mills.
Names:
Cuernavaca
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Cuauhnáhuac
(
H
,
V
)
............
until 1521
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
........
Mexico
(nation) (
P
)
............
Morelos
(state) (
P
)
................
Cuernavaca
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
settled since 14th cen.
city (
C
)
state capital (
C
)
agricultural center (
C
)
industrial center (
C
)
transportation center (
C
)
educational center (
C
)
historic site (
C
)
resort (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Cuauhnáhuac..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
III, 779
Cuernavaca..........
[
BHA
,
VP Preferred
]
.......................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.......................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
51
.......................
USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
.......................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
302-303
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
III, 779
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-1660131
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
51
..................
USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
302-303
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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