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ID: 7005280
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7005280
Record Type:
administrative
Asunción (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 25 16 00 S
degrees minutes
Lat: -25.2667
decimal degrees
Long: 057 40 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -57.6667
decimal degrees
Note:
Former base of Spain's colonial activities in eastern part of continent; missions were founded by Jesuits to convert Guaraní Amerindians in 1588; Jesuits were ousted in 1767; declared independence from Spain & Argentina in 1811.
Names:
Asunción
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Nuestra Señora de la Asunción
(
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
South America
(continent) (
P
)
........
Paraguay
(nation) (
P
)
............
Asunción
(department) (
P
)
................
Asunción
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Additional Parents:
World
(facet)
....
South America
(continent) (
P
)
........
Paraguay
(nation) (
P
)
............
Central
(department) (
P
)
................
Asunción
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
established 1537
city (
C
)
national capital (
C
)
department capital (
C
)
............
of both Central & Asunción departments
university center (
C
)
Related geographic places:
capital of ....
Paraguay
.......... (nation)
..................
(World, South America) [1000055]
Sources and Contributors:
Asunción..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990)
40
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
I, 658
.................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
Nuestra Señora de la Asunción..........
[
VP
]
..................................................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
87
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990)
40
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
I, 658
..................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
87
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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