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ID: 1016857
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1016857
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Yuscarán (inhabited place)  Yuscarán (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 13 56 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 13.9333  decimal degrees
Long: 086 45 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -86.7500  decimal degrees

Note: SE Honduras; flourishing center for mining during colonial age; mining ceased 19th cen. & resumed 1940s; chief products of area are timber, grains & fruit; town is site of distillery for liquor; linked by road to border with Nicaragua & Tegucigalpa.

Names:
Yuscarán (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 Honduras (nation)  ........  Honduras (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of El Paraíso (department)  ............  El Paraíso (department) (P)
Hierarchy of Yuscarán (inhabited place)  ................  Yuscarán (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  founded between 1730-1740
town (C)
department capital (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Yuscarán..........  [VP Preferred]
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) XII, 879
.................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 220
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) XII, 879
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 220
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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