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ID: 1022576
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1022576
Record Type:
administrative
Pôrto Velho (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 08 45 00 S
degrees minutes
Lat: -8.7500
decimal degrees
Long: 063 54 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -63.9000
decimal degrees
Note:
Located on S bank of Rio Madeira; railroad built in 1913 circumvents rapids to carry lumber & rubber from Mato Grosso state to NE Bolivia; tin ore mined in area; linked to São Paulo city by highway.
Names:
Pôrto Velho
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Porto Velho
(
C
,
V
,
O
,
Portuguese-P
)
Velho
(
C
,
U
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
South America
(continent) (
P
)
........
Brazil
(nation) (
P
)
............
Rondônia
(state) (
P
)
................
Pôrto Velho
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
made seat of municipality in 1915
city (
C
)
state capital (
C
)
commercial center (
C
)
transportation center (
C
)
regional capital (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Porto Velho..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
IX, 631
.......................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-663887
Pôrto Velho..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.......................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-663887
.......................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
157
Velho..........
[
VP
]
..............
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-663887
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
IX, 631
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-663887
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
157
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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