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ID: 1016729
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1016729
Record Type:
administrative
Totonicapán (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 14 58 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 14.9667
decimal degrees
Long: 091 12 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -91.2000
decimal degrees
Note:
One of nation's largest cities; population mostly Mayan Amerindians; before Spanish conquest, it was second most important city of Quiché nation; today is processing center for crops, & produces textiles, pottery & funiture.
Names:
Totonicapán
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
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North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
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Guatemala
(nation) (
P
)
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Totonicapán
(department) (
P
)
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Totonicapán
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
occupied by Quiché Amerindians from ca. 900 BC
city (
C
)
department capital (
C
)
commercial center (
C
)
industrial center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Totonicapán..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.......................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
XI, 865
.......................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
200
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
XI, 865
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
200
Note:
English
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[
VP
]
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