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ID: 1024062
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1024062
Record Type:
administrative
Villavicencio (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 04 09 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 4.1500
decimal degrees
Long: 073 38 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -73.6333
decimal degrees
Note:
Located in central Colombia on the Meta river, SE of Bogotá; named after Antonio Villavicencio, an early advocate of independence struggle from Spain; is a manufacturing & commercial center of Ilanos & rain forests of E Colombia.
Names:
Villavicencio
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
South America
(continent) (
P
)
........
Colombia
(nation) (
P
)
............
Meta
(department) (
P
)
................
Villavicencio
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded 1840
town (
C
)
regional capital (
C
)
commercial center (
C
)
industrial center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Villavicencio..........
[
VP Preferred
]
..........................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
XII, 373
..........................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
210
..........................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
1300
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
XII, 373
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
210
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
1300
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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