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ID: 1016642
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1016642
Record Type:
administrative
Ciudad Vieja (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 14 31 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 14.5167
decimal degrees
Long: 090 46 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -90.7667
decimal degrees
Note:
Originally founded as the capital of Guatemala, but destroyed by a volcanic flood in 1541, when capital was moved to Antigua.
Names:
Ciudad Vieja
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Santiago de los Cabelleros de Guatemala
(
H
,
V
)
............
from 1527
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
........
Guatemala
(nation) (
P
)
............
Sacatepéquez
(department) (
P
)
................
Ciudad Vieja
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded 1527
town (
C
)
capital (
H
)
............
of Guatemala captaincy, 1527-1541
Sources and Contributors:
Ciudad Vieja..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.......................
Rand McNally Atlas (1994)
I-37
Santiago de los Cabelleros de Guatemala..........
[
VP
]
.................................................................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 358
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
1:358; I, 358
..................
Rand McNally Atlas (1994)
I-37
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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