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ID: 1016234
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1016234
Record Type:
administrative
Heredia (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 10 00 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 10.0000
decimal degrees
Long: 084 08 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -84.1333
decimal degrees
Note:
Located 4,000 feet above sea level on central plateau; was a major colonial center; after Mexican independence in 1821, town strongly supported annexation of Costa Rica to Mexico; today is important trade center for coffee.
Names:
Heredia
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Villavieja
(
H
,
V
)
Cubujuquí
(
H
,
V
)
............
original
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
........
Costa Rica
(nation) (
P
)
............
Heredia
(province) (
P
)
................
Heredia
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
probably founded 1570s
city (
C
)
provincial capital (
C
)
national capital (
H
)
............
briefly, 1830s
Sources and Contributors:
Cubujuquí..........
[
VP
]
....................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
V, 869
Heredia..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
V, 869
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
83
Villavieja..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
V, 869
.......................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
V, 869
..................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
83
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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