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ID: 7006284
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7006284
Record Type:
administrative
San Salvador (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 13 40 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 13.6667
decimal degrees
Long: 089 10 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -89.1667
decimal degrees
Note:
Located on the Río Acelhaute; damaged by earthquakes in 1854, 1873, and 1917 that destroyed all colonial structures; produces leather, textiles, wood, and cigars; has small cathedral, museum and libraries; suffered civil unrest in 1970s.
Names:
San Salvador
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
........
El Salvador
(nation) (
P
)
............
San Salvador
(department) (
P
)
................
San Salvador
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded by Spanish conquistador Pedro de Alvarado in 1525
city (
C
)
............
given city status in 1546
department capital (
C
)
............
capital of the province of Cuscatĺan & of the United Provinces of Central America from 1834-1839
national capital (
C
)
............
1841-1854, since 1859
commercial center (
C
)
industrial center (
C
)
transportation center (
C
)
Related geographic places:
capital of ....
El Salvador
.......... (nation)
..................
(World, North and Central America) [7005441]
Sources and Contributors:
San Salvador..........
[
FDA
,
VP Preferred
]
.......................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
10:401
.......................
National Archives and Record Administration database (1987-)
.......................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
175
.......................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Subject:
.....
[
FDA
,
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
X, 401; 10:401
..................
National Archives and Record Administration database (1987-)
..................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2004-2008)
accessed 22 November 2004
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
175
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
..........
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1985)
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