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ID: 1021326
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1021326

 

Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Diamantina (inhabited place)  Diamantina (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 18 17 00 S  degrees minutes   Lat: -18.2833  decimal degrees
Long: 043 37 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -43.6167  decimal degrees

Note: Was center for important diamond-mining region that was worked since 18th cen.; colonial settlement was built in the shape of an amphitheater.

Names:
Diamantina (preferred,C,V,O,Portuguese-P)
Tejuco (H,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of South America (continent)  ....  South America (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Brasil (nation)  ........  Brasil (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Minas Gerais (state)  ............  Minas Gerais (state) (P)
Hierarchy of Diamantina (inhabited place)  ................  Diamantina (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  was colonial mining settlement
city (C)
mining center (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Diamantina..........  [VP Preferred]
.......................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -640138
.......................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 55
Tejuco..........  [VP]
.................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 242
.................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -640138
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 242
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -640138
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 55
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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