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ID: 7441542
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7441542
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Los Naranjos (historical region)  Los Naranjos (historical region)

Coordinates:
Lat: 14 54 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 14.9000  decimal degrees
Long: 088 03 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -88.0500  decimal degrees

Note: Region in western Honduras, on the north side of Lake Yojoa; noted for archaelogical studies of the Maya frontier. Common opinion currently holds that this area was 50 miles beyond the Maya border, and that the people of Los Naranjos spoke Lenca, a language indigenous to Honduras and El Salvador.

Names:
Los Naranjos (preferred,C,V,S)
Parque Eco-Arqueologico Los Naranjos (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 Honduras (nation)  ........  Honduras (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Los Naranjos (historical region)  ............  Los Naranjos (historical region) (P)

Place Types:
historical region (preferred, C)
archaeological site (C)  ............  excavations of mound here began in 1935
park (C)
inhabited region (H)
Pre-Columbian (H)

Sources and Contributors:
Los Naranjos..........  [VP]
.......................  Baudez and Becquelin, Archéologie de Los Naranjos (1973)
.......................  IHAH [online] (2010-) accessed 25 May 2011
Parque Eco-Arqueologico Los Naranjos..........  [VP Preferred]
...........................................................  IHAH [online] (2010-) accessed 25 May 2011
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  IHAH [online] (2010-) accessed 25 May 2011
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
..........  Baudez and Becquelin, Archéologie de Los Naranjos (1973)
..........  IHAH [online] (2010-)

 

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