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ID: 1016323
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1016323
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Camagüey (inhabited place)  Camagüey (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 21 25 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 21.4167  decimal degrees
Long: 077 55 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -77.9167  decimal degrees

Note: Originally founded at site of present-day Nuevitas city; moved inland in 1528; prosperity of city led to raids by bucaneers in 1668; retains several colonial buildings & plazas; site of a large thermal power plant & branch of Unversity of Havana.

Names:
Camagüey (preferred,C,V)
Santa María de Puerto Príncipe (H,V)  ............ from 1514-1528

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of North and Central America (continent)  ....  North and Central America (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Cuba (nation)  ........  Cuba (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Camagüey (province)  ............  Camagüey (province) (P)
Hierarchy of Camagüey (inhabited place)  ................  Camagüey (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  founded in 1514
provincial capital (C)
city (C)
trade center (C)
industrial center (C)

Related geographic places:
moved from ....  Nuevitas .......... (inhabited place)
..................  (World, North and Central America, Cuba, Camagüey province) [1016401]

Sources and Contributors:
Camagüey..........  [VP Preferred]
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) II, 756
.................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 38
Santa María de Puerto Príncipe..........  [VP]
.....................................................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) II, 756
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) II, 756
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 38
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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