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ID: 1016823
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1016823
Record Type:
administrative
Puerto Lempira (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 15 12 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 15.2000
decimal degrees
Long: 083 51 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -83.8500
decimal degrees
Note:
NE Honduras; located on S shore of Laguna de Caratasca; main occupation is fishing; site of a plant for packing shrimp; offshore oil exploration began in nearby waters in 1970s; has no highway connections, but is served by an airfield.
Names:
Puerto Lempira
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
........
Honduras
(nation) (
P
)
............
Gracias a Dios
(department) (
P
)
................
Puerto Lempira
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
town (
C
)
department capital (
C
)
............
replaced Brus Laguna 1975
Sources and Contributors:
Puerto Lempira..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.............................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
IX, 787
.............................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
159
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
IX, 787
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
159
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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