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ID: 1016558
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1016558
Record Type:
administrative
Sonsonate (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 13 43 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 13.7167
decimal degrees
Long: 089 44 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -89.7333
decimal degrees
Note:
Located on the Rio Grande de Sonsonate; became center for thriving cacao trade in Spanish colonial times; is trade center for livestock, coffee, sugar, fruits & hides.
Names:
Sonsonate
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
........
El Salvador
(nation) (
P
)
............
Sonsonate
(department) (
P
)
................
Sonsonate
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded in 1524
city (
C
)
department capital (
C
)
agricultural center (
C
)
national capital (
H
)
............
from 1833-1834
Sources and Contributors:
Sonsonate..........
[
VP Preferred
]
....................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
XI, 15
....................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
186
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
XI, 15
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
186
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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