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ID: 7005943
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7005943
Record Type:
administrative
San José (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 09 56 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 9.9333
decimal degrees
Long: 084 05 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -84.0833
decimal degrees
Note:
Center for tobacco production during Spanish colonial period; became center for nation's coffee production in 1840s; rapidly expanded in 20th cen.; located on Pan-American Highway.
Names:
San José
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
San Jose
(
C
,
V
)
Villa Nueva
(
H
,
V
)
............
upon settlement, 1736
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
........
Costa Rica
(nation) (
P
)
............
San José
(province) (
P
)
................
San José
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
settled 1736
city (
C
)
national capital (
C
)
............
transferred from Cartago, 1823
provincial capital (
C
)
university center (
C
)
transportation center (
C
)
Related geographic places:
capital of ....
Costa Rica
.......... (nation)
..................
(World, North and Central America) [7005364]
Sources and Contributors:
San José..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
10:391
.................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
San Jose..........
[
FDA
,
VP
]
.................
National Archives and Record Administration database (1987-)
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Villa Nueva..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
X, 391
Subject:
.....
[
FDA
,
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
X, 391; 10:391
..................
National Archives and Record Administration database (1987-)
..................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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