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ID: 1017211
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1017211
Record Type:
administrative
Ciudad Chetumal (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 18 30 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 18.5000
decimal degrees
Long: 088 18 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -88.3000
decimal degrees
Note:
Founded to prevent illegal exploitation of timber & shipments of contraband arms & ammunition; relies on forestry & forest products for income; exports chicle, lumber & plywood; located in tropical rain forest.
Names:
Ciudad Chetumal
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Chetumal
(
C
,
V
)
Payo Obispo
(
H
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
........
México
(nation) (
P
)
............
Quintana Roo
(state) (
P
)
................
Ciudad Chetumal
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded 1899
town (
C
)
state capital (
C
)
............
since 1902
trade center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Chetumal..........
[
VP
]
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
III, 182
.................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
251
Ciudad Chetumal..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.............................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.............................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
Payo Obispo..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
III, 182
.......................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
III, 182
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-1656952
..................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
251
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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