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ID: 7006458
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7006458
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Colón (inhabited place)  Colón (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 09 21 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 9.3500  decimal degrees
Long: 079 54 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -79.9000  decimal degrees

Note: Name refers to explorer Christopher Columbus; became a major port after completion of railway in 1855; canal construction improved fomerly unheathful sewage & drainage conditions; site of a customhouse, large public buildings & several modern hotels.

Names:
Colón (preferred,C,V)
Aspinwall (C,O)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of North and Central America (continent)  ....  North and Central America (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Panama (nation)  ........  Panama (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Colón (province)  ............  Colón (province) (P)
Hierarchy of Colón (inhabited place)  ................  Colón (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  founded in 1850 at N terminus of original Panama railway
city (C)
provincial capital (C)
port (C)
tourist center (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Aspinwall..........  [VP]
....................  Rand McNally Atlas (1994) I-10
Colón..........  [VP Preferred]
..............  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) III, 463
..............  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 48
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) III, 463
..................  Rand McNally Atlas (1994) I-10
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 48
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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