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ID: 1018380
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1018380
Record Type:
administrative
Tampico (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 22 13 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 22.2167
decimal degrees
Long: 097 51 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -97.8500
decimal degrees
Note:
City grew around monastery 1532; destroyed by pirates 1683, reoccupied 1823; occupied by US during Mexican War & by French 1862; one of greatest oil ports in world; most up to date harbor in Mexico; exports oil, livestock & copper ore.
Names:
Tampico
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
........
México
(nation) (
P
)
............
Tamaulipas
(state) (
P
)
................
Tampico
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
first settled by Aztecs, 1325
city (
C
)
port (
C
)
trade center (
C
)
transportation center (
C
)
tourist center (
C
)
industrial center (
C
)
educational center (
C
)
resort (
C
)
monastery (
H
)
............
founded by Franciscan friar, 1532
Sources and Contributors:
Tampico..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
XI, 533
.................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
194
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
1184
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
XI, 533
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
6278786; -1704009; -1704008
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
194
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
1184
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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