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ID: 7006455
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7006455
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Panamá (inhabited place)  Panamá (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 08 57 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 8.9500  decimal degrees
Long: 079 30 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -79.5000  decimal degrees

Note: Originally an Amerindian fishing village; raided by Francis Drake in 1595 & Henry Morgan in 1671; was on transport route for Andean gold 16th-17th cen.; city grew rapidly after canal opened in 1914; economy based on canal traffic, breweries & steel mills.

Names:
Panamá (preferred,C,V)  ............ meaning "many fish"
Panamá City (C,O)
Panama City (C,V,English-P,U)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of North and Central America (continent)  ....  North and Central America (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Panamá (nation)  ........  Panamá (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Panamá (province)  ............  Panamá (province) (P)
Hierarchy of Panamá (inhabited place)  ................  Panamá (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  founded in 1519 by Pedro Arias Dávila
city (C)  ............  refounded five miles W of original site in 1673
national capital (C)  ............  since 1903 when independence from Colombia was declared
provincial capital (C)
industrial center (C)
port (C)

Related geographic places:
capital of ....  Panamá .......... (nation)
..................  (World, North and Central America) [7005565]

Sources and Contributors:
Panamá..........  [VP Preferred]
.................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 710
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) IX, 107
.................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 149
Panamá City..........  [VP]
.......................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) IX, 107
Panama City..........  [VP]
.......................  Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-2014)
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) II, 710
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) IX, 107
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 149
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
..........  Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-2014)

 

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