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ID: 7014473
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7014473
Record Type:
administrative
Santa Clara (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 37 21 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 37.3500
decimal degrees
Long: 121 57 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -121.9500
decimal degrees
Note:
Located on Guadalupe River in Santa Clara Valley; economy based on fruit-processing & Great America amusement park; mission damaged by earthquakes 1812 & 1818; current mission is reconstruction of third church built in 1821.
Names:
Santa Clara
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
........
United States
(nation) (
P
)
............
California
(state) (
P
)
................
Santa Clara
(county) (
P
)
....................
Santa Clara
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
grew around Mission Santa Clara de Asis, founded in 1777
city (
C
)
............
incorporated in 1852
manufacturing center (
C
)
............
since 1940s
university center (
C
)
............
since founding by Jesuits of University of Santa Clara, state's oldest institution of higher education in 1851
Sources and Contributors:
Santa Clara..........
[
BHA
,
VP Preferred
]
.......................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
X, 425
.......................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS6032544
.......................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
X, 425
..................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS6032544
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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