The GettyResearch Institute
Research Home Tools Thesaurus of Geographic Names Full Record Display
Thesaurus of Geographic Names Full Record Display
New Search Previous Page Help

Vernacular Display | English Display

Click the icon to view the hierarchy.

Semantic View (JSONJSONLDRDFN3/TurtleN-Triples)

ID: 1016636
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1016636

 

Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Chimaltenango (inhabited place)  Chimaltenango (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 14 40 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 14.6667  decimal degrees
Long: 090 48 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -90.8000  decimal degrees

Note: Was a colonial center; today is a trade center for sugar, grains & livestock; local deposits of clay have made the town a brickmaking center; site of church noted for unusual fountain, from which half the water flows into Pacific & half into Atlantic.

Names:
Chimaltenango (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 Guatemala (nation)  ........  Guatemala (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Chimaltenango (department)  ............  Chimaltenango (department) (P)
Hierarchy of Chimaltenango (inhabited place)  ................  Chimaltenango (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  founded in 1526 near an old Mayan fortress
city (C)
department capital (C)
industrial center (C)
market center (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Chimaltenango..........  [VP Preferred]
..........................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) III, 215
..........................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 45
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) III, 215
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 45
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

New Search

Back to Top

Printer Friendly Version

The J. Paul Getty Trust
The J. Paul Getty Trust