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ID: 1016954
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1016954
Record Type:
administrative
Aguascalientes (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 21 53 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 21.8833
decimal degrees
Long: 102 18 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -102.3000
decimal degrees
Note:
Founded as mining settlement; labyrinth of tunnels were excavated beneath city by unidentified pre-Columbian tribe; center of fruit & vegetable growing region; has small industries; noted for colonial churches.
Names:
Aguascalientes
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
La Ciudad Perforada
(
C
,
V
)
Ciudad de Aguascalientes
(
NA
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
........
Mexico
(nation) (
P
)
............
Aguascalientes
(state) (
P
)
................
Aguascalientes
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded 1575
city (
C
)
state capital (
C
)
............
since 1835
agricultural center (
C
)
transportation center (
C
)
industrial center (
C
)
town (
H
)
............
established 1661
mining center (
H
)
............
1575-1661
Sources and Contributors:
Aguascalientes..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.............................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.............................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
8
.............................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
15
Ciudad de Aguascalientes..........
[
VP
]
.........................................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
La Ciudad Perforada..........
[
VP
]
...................................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
I, 159
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
I, 159
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-1649885
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
8
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
15
Note:
English
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[
VP
]
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