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ID: 1018771
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1018771
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of San Carlos (inhabited place)  San Carlos (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 11 10 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 11.1667  decimal degrees
Long: 084 45 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -84.7500  decimal degrees

Note: Located on SE end of Lake Nicaragua near border with Costa Rica; used as fort to ward off attacks by pirates during colonial era; suffered heavy damage in 1948 fire; livestock rearing & lumbering is practiced; linked by road to Los Chiles, Costa Rica.

Names:
San Carlos (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 Nicaragua (nation)  ........  Nicaragua (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Río San Juan (department)  ............  Río San Juan (department) (P)
Hierarchy of San Carlos (inhabited place)  ................  San Carlos (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)
city (C)
department capital (C)
port (C)
commercial center (C)

Sources and Contributors:
San Carlos..........  [VP Preferred]
.......................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) X, 386
.......................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 173
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) X, 386
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 173
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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