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ID: 7017073
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7017073
Record Type:
administrative
Cuenca (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 02 54 02 S
degrees minutes
Lat: -2.9000
decimal degrees
Long: 079 00 16 W
degrees minutes
Long: -79.0040
decimal degrees
Note:
Third largest city in the nation; was an Incan site; is trade center for agricultural goods, cattle, hides & marble; known for production of Panama hats; low grade deposits of copper are found W of city.
Names:
Cuenca
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Santa Ana de los Ríos de Cuenca
(
C
,
V
)
Santa Ana de Cuenca
(
C
,
V
)
Tumibamba
(
H
,
V
)
............
used when was a native town before Spanish founded Cuenca on same site in 1557
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
South America
(continent) (
P
)
........
Ecuador
(nation) (
P
)
............
Azuay-Canar
(province) (
P
)
................
Cuenca
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
part of Incan Empire; later taken by conquistador Gil Ramírez Davalos in 1557
city (
C
)
provincial capital (
C
)
commercial center (
C
)
university center (
C
)
episcopal see (
C
)
............
since 1786
archaeological site (
C
)
............
includes Incan ruins
Sources and Contributors:
Cuenca..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
III, 778
.................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-)
accessed 17 January 2014
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
plate 119
.................
Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994)
50
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
302
Santa Ana de Cuenca..........
[
VP
]
...................................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
III, 778
Santa Ana de los Ríos de Cuenca..........
[
VP
]
.....................................................
AATA database (1995-)
Tumibamba..........
[
VP
]
....................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
302
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
III, 778
..................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-)
accessed 17 January 2014
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
plate 119
..................
Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994)
50
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
302
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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