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ID: 7005983
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7005983
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Granada (inhabited place)  Granada (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 11 58 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 11.9667  decimal degrees
Long: 085 59 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -85.9833  decimal degrees

Note: Situated at base of Volcán Mombacho; third-largest city in nation; raided by Caribbean pirates 17th cen.; pillaged & burned by American military adventurer William Walker 1857; industries include soap, furniture, clothes, cottonseed oil & rum.

Names:
Granada (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 Granada (department)  ............  Granada (department) (P)
Hierarchy of Granada (inhabited place)  ................  Granada (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  founded by Francisco Hernández de Córdoba 1523
city (C)
department capital (C)
industrial center (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Granada..........  [BHA, VP Preferred]
.................  Cambridge World Gazetteer (1988)
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) V, 413
.................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 75
.................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Subject: .....  [BHA, VP]
..................  Cambridge World Gazetteer (1988)
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) V, 413
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 75
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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