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ID: 1016331
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1016331
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Cienfuegos (inhabited place)  Cienfuegos (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 22 10 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 22.1667  decimal degrees
Long: 080 27 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -80.4500  decimal degrees

Note: One of nation's chief ports; built on grid pattern with wide streets & parks; Castillo de Jagua (fortress) was built in 1745 to protect bay from pirates; was destroyed by storm in 1825 & renamed; is processing center for sugar, coffee & tobacco.

Names:
Cienfuegos (preferred,C,V)
Fernandina de Jagua (H,V)  ............ from 1819-1825

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 Cienfuegos (province)  ............  Cienfuegos (province) (P)
Hierarchy of Cienfuegos (inhabited place)  ................  Cienfuegos (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  visited by Christopher Columbus in 1494; settled permanently in 1738
city (C)  ............  founded by French colonists in 1819
provincial capital (C)
industrial center (C)
port (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Cienfuegos..........  [VP Preferred]
.......................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) III, 317-318
.......................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 46
Fernandina de Jagua..........  [VP]
...................................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) III, 317-318
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) III, 317-318
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 46
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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