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ID: 1016509
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1016509
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Chalatenango (inhabited place)  Chalatenango (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 14 04 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 14.0667  decimal degrees
Long: 088 53 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -88.8833  decimal degrees

Note: Located on Tamulasco & Cholco rivers; city's annual agricultural fair is a national event; light industries include pottery & rope making & indigo processing; damaged during fighting between government troop & leftist guerrillas in early 1980s.

Names:
Chalatenango (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 El Salvador (nation)  ........  El Salvador (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Chalatenango (department)  ............  Chalatenango (department) (P)
Hierarchy of Chalatenango (inhabited place)  ................  Chalatenango (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  originally an Amerindian settlement placed under control of Spanish government in 1791
city (C)  ............  given city status in 1871
department capital (C)
agricultural center (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Chalatenango..........  [VP Preferred]
.......................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) III, 58
.......................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 42
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) III, 58
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 42
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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