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ID: 7007115
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7007115
Record Type:
administrative
Monterrey (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 25 40 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 25.6667
decimal degrees
Long: 100 19 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -100.3167
decimal degrees
Note:
Mexico's third largest city; one of most energetic & up to date industrial complexes in hemisphere; developed as center of metallurgical industry after 1882; Topo Chico hot springs & García caves are nearby; taken by US in Mexican War 1846.
Names:
Monterrey
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Monterey
(
C
,
O
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
........
México
(nation) (
P
)
............
Nuevo León
(state) (
P
)
................
Monterrey
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded 1579
city (
C
)
state capital (
C
)
industrial center (
C
)
agricultural center (
C
)
educational center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Monterey..........
[
VP
]
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
786
Monterrey..........
[
BHA
,
VP Preferred
]
....................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
XII, 283
....................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
....................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
130
....................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
XII, 283
..................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2004-2008)
accessed 15 March 2006
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-1684228
..................
Rand McNally Atlas (1991)
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
130
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
786
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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