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ID: 7033083
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7033083
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Casas Grandes (inhabited place)  Casas Grandes (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 30 22 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 30.3660  decimal degrees
Long: 107 57 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -107.9500  decimal degrees

Note: Town on the Casas Grandes River, in the northwestern corner of Chihuahua, northern Mexico. When it was settled by the Spaniards in 1661/1662, the area belonged to the Suma Indians. The town's name, Spanish for "great houses," refers to the extensive, multi-storied ruins of a pre-Columbian town nearby.

Names:
Casas Grandes (preferred,C,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of North and Central America (continent)  ....  North and Central America (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of México (nation)  ........  México (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Chihuahua (state)  ............  Chihuahua (state) (P)
Hierarchy of Casas Grandes (inhabited place)  ................  Casas Grandes (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)
town (C)

Related geographic places:
near/adjacent to ....  Paquimé .......... (deserted settlement)
..............................  (World, North and Central America, México, Chihuahua state) [7032428]

Sources and Contributors:
Casas Grandes..........  [VP Preferred]
..........................  Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-2014) accessed 29 March 2010
..........................  NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-) accessed 29 March 2010
Subject: .....  [BHA, VP]
..................  BHA, Authority file (1973-)
..................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 40
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
..........  Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-2014) accessed 29 March 2010

 

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