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ID: 1016408
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1016408
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Pinar del Río (inhabited place)  Pinar del Río (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 22 24 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 22.4000  decimal degrees
Long: 083 42 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -83.7000  decimal degrees

Note: Located near base of Sierra de los Órganos; experienced economic growth around 1830 when tobacco industry developed; with railroad completion, city became processing center for crops in hinterland; industries include cigar & furniture manufacturing.

Names:
Pinar del Río (preferred,C,V)
Nueva Filipina (H,V)

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 Pinar del Río (province)  ............  Pinar del Río (province) (P)
Hierarchy of Pinar del Río (inhabited place)  ................  Pinar del Río (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  founded in 1775
city (C)
provincial capital (C)  ............  since 1800
industrial center (C)
commercial center (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Nueva Filipina..........  [VP]
.............................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) IX, 447
Pinar del Río..........  [VP Preferred]
..........................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) XI, 447
..........................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 153
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) IX, 447; XI, 447
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 153
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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