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ID: 1019057
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1019057
Record Type:
administrative
Castries (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 14 01 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 14.0167
decimal degrees
Long: 060 59 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -60.9833
decimal degrees
Note:
Seaport with fine deepwater harbor on NW coast of island; ships bananas, sugarcane, rum & other products; site of fortress on Mt. Fortune & Vigie beach.
Names:
Castries
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
........
Saint Lucia
(nation) (
P
)
............
Castries
(quarter) (
P
)
................
Castries
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
rebuilt after being destroyed by fire in 1948
city (
C
)
national capital (
C
)
regional capital (
C
)
port (
C
)
commercial center (
C
)
industrial center (
C
)
Related geographic places:
capital of ....
Saint Lucia
.......... (nation)
..................
(World, North and Central America) [7004772]
Sources and Contributors:
Castries..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990)
120
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
II, 940
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
41
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990)
120
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
II, 940
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
41
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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