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ID: 1016549
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1016549
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of San Miguel (inhabited place)  San Miguel (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 13 28 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 13.4667  decimal degrees
Long: 088 10 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -88.1667  decimal degrees

Note: Located at foot of San Miguel & Chinameca volcanoes; damaged by earthquake in 1917; industries include textile, rope & leather production; site of 18th-cen. cathedral; suffered from unrest between government troops & leftist guerrillas in early 1980s.

Names:
San Miguel (preferred,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 El Salvador (nation)  ........  El Salvador (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of San Miguel (department)  ............  San Miguel (department) (P)
Hierarchy of San Miguel (inhabited place)  ................  San Miguel (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  founded by Spanish in 1530
city (C)
department capital (C)
commercial center (C)

Sources and Contributors:
San Miguel..........  [VP Preferred]
.......................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) X, 397
.......................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 74
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) X, 397
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 74
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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