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ID: 1021505
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1021505
Record Type:
administrative
Governador Valadares (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 18 51 00 S
degrees minutes
Lat: -18.8500
decimal degrees
Long: 041 57 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -41.9500
decimal degrees
Note:
Located on bank of Rio Doce; trade center for rice, corn, beans, sugar & coffee; industries include sawmills, food, mica & beryl processing; famous for gem trading centers in area.
Names:
Governador Valadares
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Figueira
(
H
,
V
,
O
,
Portuguese-P
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
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South America
(continent) (
P
)
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Brazil
(nation) (
P
)
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Minas Gerais
(state) (
P
)
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Governador Valadares
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
made seat of municipality in 1937
city (
C
)
agricultural center (
C
)
mining center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Figueira..........
[
VP
]
.................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-643053
.................
Rand McNally Atlas (1994)
I-55
Governador Valadares..........
[
VP Preferred
]
...................................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
V, 393
...................................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
75
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
V, 393
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-643053
..................
Rand McNally Atlas (1994)
I-55
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
75
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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