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ID: 1024077
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1024077
Record Type:
administrative
Ambato (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 01 15 09 S
degrees minutes
Lat: -1.2520
decimal degrees
Long: 078 37 22 W
degrees minutes
Long: -78.6220
decimal degrees
Note:
Most of city was destroyed by earthquake in 1949; birthplace of 19th-cen. writer & freedom fighter Juan Montalvo; situated on Guayaquil-Quito railroad & Pan-American Highway; center for agriculture, food processing & textile milling.
Names:
Ambato
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
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South America
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P
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Ecuador
(nation) (
P
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Tungurahua
(province) (
P
)
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Ambato
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
city (
C
)
provincial capital (
C
)
trade center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Ambato..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
I, 316-317
.................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-)
accessed 21 January 2014
.................
Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994)
12
Subject:
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[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
I, 316-317
..................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-)
accessed 21 January 2014
..................
Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994)
12
Note:
English
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[
VP
]
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