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ID: 7007127
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7007127
Record Type:
administrative
Acapulco de Juárez (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 16 51 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 16.8500
decimal degrees
Long: 099 55 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -99.9167
decimal degrees
Note:
One of finest natural anchorages in world; developed as chief port for Spanish trade with Philippines 1565-1815; is a major resort center, known as "Riviera of Mexico."
Names:
Acapulco de Juárez
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Acapulco
(
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
........
México
(nation) (
P
)
............
Guerrero
(state) (
P
)
................
Acapulco de Juárez
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded by Hernán Cortés, 1531
city (
C
)
............
since 1599
port (
C
)
trade center (
C
)
tourist center (
C
)
transportation center (
C
)
resort (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Acapulco..........
[
VP
]
.................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
6
.................
Times Atlas of World History (1989)
Acapulco de Juárez..........
[
VP Preferred
]
...................................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
I, 52
...................................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
...................................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
...................................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
5
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
I, 52
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-1649039
..................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
6
..................
Times Atlas of World History (1989)
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
5
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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