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ID: 7005823
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7005823
Record Type:
administrative
Puno (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 15 53 00 S
degrees minutes
Lat: -15.8833
decimal degrees
Long: 070 03 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -70.0500
decimal degrees
Note:
Named in honor of Carlos II of Spain; city retained colonial style; the commercial & communications center for southern Peruvian Andes; trades in wool of Llamas & alpacas; tourism is economic asset.
Names:
Puno
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
San Carlos de Puno
(
H
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
South America
(continent) (
P
)
........
Peru
(nation) (
P
)
............
Puno
(region (administrative division)) (
P
)
................
Puno
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded 1668
town (
C
)
regional capital (
C
)
commercial center (
C
)
trade center (
C
)
educational center (
C
)
tourist center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Puno..........
[
BHA
,
VP Preferred
]
...........
Espasa: Enciclopedia universal (1907)
...........
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
159
...........
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
...........
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
988
San Carlos de Puno..........
[
VP
]
...................................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
IX, 802
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
IX, 802
..................
Espasa: Enciclopedia universal (1907)
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
159
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
988
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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