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ID: 1016535
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1016535
Record Type:
administrative
La Unión (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 13 20 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 13.3333
decimal degrees
Long: 087 50 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -87.8333
decimal degrees
Note:
Located on N foot Conchagua Volcano on La Unión Bay; economy based on tortoiseshell industry, beach-resort facilities & nearby port of Cutuco; site of fighting between government troops & leftist guerrillas in early 1980s.
Names:
La Unión
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
........
El Salvador
(nation) (
P
)
............
La Unión
(department) (
P
)
................
La Unión
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
city (
C
)
department capital (
C
)
port (
C
)
industrial center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
La Unión..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VII, 76
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
110
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VII, 76
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
110
Note:
English
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[
VP
]
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