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ID: 1016432
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1016432
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Santa Clara (inhabited place)  Santa Clara (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 22 25 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 22.4167  decimal degrees
Long: 079 58 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 79.9667  decimal degrees

Note: Mistaken by Columbus as land of Mongol emperor Kubla Kahn when he landed in 1492; captured by Castro in 1958 during revolution against Batista; became tobacco, sugar & steel processing center during 20th cen.; University of Las Villas founded in 1948.

Names:
Santa Clara (preferred,C,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of North and Central America (continent)  ....  North and Central America (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Cuba (nation)  ........  Cuba (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Villa Clara (province)  ............  Villa Clara (province) (P)
Hierarchy of Santa Clara (inhabited place)  ................  Santa Clara (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  occupied by ancient Cubanacan Amerindians
city (C)  ............  founded in 1689 by families fleeing constant pirate attacks in costal Remedios
provincial capital (C)
industrial center (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Santa Clara..........  [VP Preferred]
.......................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 826
.......................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) X, 424
.......................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 175
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 826
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) X, 424
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 175
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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