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ID: 1023176
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1023176
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Teresina (inhabited place)  Teresina (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 05 09 00 S  degrees minutes   Lat: -5.1500  decimal degrees
Long: 042 46 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -42.7667  decimal degrees

Note: Named after Brazilian empress Teresa Christina; chief commercial center of Paranáiba valley; industries include textile & soap, sugar refineries, distilleries & sawmills; national government built dams here to combat annual flooding in rainy season.

Names:
Teresina (preferred,C,V,O)
Poti (C,U)
Terezina (C,U)
Theresina (C,U)
Vila Nova do Poti (C,U)
Therezina (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 Piauí (state)  ............  Piauí (state) (P)
Hierarchy of Teresina (inhabited place)  ................  Teresina (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  founded in 1852
city (C)
state capital (C)
industrial center (C)
agricultural center (C)
regional capital (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Poti..........  [VP]
...........  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -675781
Teresina..........  [VP Preferred]
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) IX, 644
.................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -675781
.................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 196
Terezina..........  [VP]
.................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -675781
Theresina..........  [VP]
....................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -675781
Therezina..........  [VP]
....................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) XI, 644
....................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -675781
Vila Nova do Poti..........  [VP]
................................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -675781
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) IX, 644; XI, 644
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -675781
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 196
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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