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ID: 7004715
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7004715
Record Type:
administrative
Guayaquil (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 02 12 21 S
degrees minutes
Lat: -2.2050
decimal degrees
Long: 079 54 29 W
degrees minutes
Long: -79.9080
decimal degrees
Note:
Largest city in the nation; often attacked by buccaneers in colonial times; site of conference between Simón Bolívar & José de San Martín 1822; important South American Pacific port; most of city reconstructed after 1942 earthquake.
Names:
Guayaquil
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Santiago de Guayaquil
(
C
,
V
)
............
in full; since 1537
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
South America
(continent) (
P
)
........
Ecuador
(nation) (
P
)
............
Guayas
(province) (
P
)
................
Guayaquil
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
established at current site by Spanish explorer Francisco de Orellana 1537
city (
C
)
provincial capital (
C
)
port (
C
)
university center (
C
)
diocese (
C
)
............
of Roman Catholic Church, 1838
archiepiscopal see (
C
)
............
since 1956
industrial center (
C
)
transportation center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Guayaquil..........
[
VP Preferred
]
....................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
V, 538
....................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-)
accessed 17 January 2014
....................
Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994)
76
Santiago de Guayaquil..........
[
VP
]
......................................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
V, 538
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
V, 538
..................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-)
accessed 17 January 2014
..................
Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994)
76
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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