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ID: 1016764
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1016764
Record Type:
administrative
Choluteca (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 13 15 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 13.2500
decimal degrees
Long: 087 10 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -87.1667
decimal degrees
Note:
Was a colonial center; today is linked to other cities in Honduras & Nicaragua by Pan-American Highway; industries include tanning, dairying, sugar refining, meat packing & sawmilling.
Names:
Choluteca
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
........
Honduras
(nation) (
P
)
............
Choluteca
(department) (
P
)
................
Choluteca
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded 1522
city (
C
)
............
status given 1845
department capital (
C
)
commercial center (
C
)
industrial center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Choluteca..........
[
VP Preferred
]
....................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
III, 260
....................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
45
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
III, 260
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
45
Note:
English
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[
VP
]
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