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ID: 1018742
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1018742
Record Type:
administrative
León (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 12 24 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 12.4000
decimal degrees
Long: 086 52 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -86.8667
decimal degrees
Note:
Second largest city in nation; has long been known as a liberal intellectual & political center; former home of poet Rubén Darío; much of city's center was destroyed in heavy combat between Sandinista & government forces 1978-1979.
Names:
León
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
........
Nicaragua
(nation) (
P
)
............
León
(department) (
P
)
................
León
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
originally founded on shores of Lake Managua 1524; relocated after earthquake 1610
city (
C
)
department capital (
C
)
commercial center (
C
)
industrial center (
C
)
university center (
C
)
national capital (
H
)
............
until 1855
Related geographic places:
moved from ....
León Viejo
.......... (deserted settlement)
..................
(World, North and Central America, Nicaragua, León department, La Paz) [7032433]
Sources and Contributors:
León..........
[
VP Preferred
]
...........
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VII, 277-278
...........
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
111
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VII, 277-278
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
111
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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