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ID: 2011259
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/2011259
Record Type:
administrative
Escondido (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 33 07 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 33.1167
decimal degrees
Long: 117 05 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -117.0833
decimal degrees
Note:
Once part of Rancho Rincón del Diablo; name is Spanish for "hidden,"; site of Battle of San Pasqual in 1846, between California forces of General Andrés Pico & US Army troops under Brigadier General Stephen Kearny.
Names:
Escondido
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
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North and Central America
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United States
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California
(state) (
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San Diego
(county) (
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Escondido
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
was laid out in 1885 & incorporated in 1888
city (
C
)
agricultural center (
C
)
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for processing fruit, wines & dairy products since late 19th cen.
industrial center (
C
)
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developed after WW II
Sources and Contributors:
Escondido..........
[
VP Preferred
]
....................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
IV, 556
....................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS6046186
Subject:
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[
VP
]
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Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
IV, 556
..................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS6046186
Note:
English
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[
VP
]
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