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ID: 1019640
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1019640
Record Type:
administrative
La Rioja (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 29 26 00 S
degrees minutes
Lat: -29.4333
decimal degrees
Long: 066 50 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -66.8333
decimal degrees
Note:
Founded by gold & silver prospectors; was a small commercial & administrative center close to deposits of copper, silver & lead ores in the high Andes; destroyed by earthquake in 1894, & rebuilt; modern economy is based on agriculture.
Names:
La Rioja
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
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South America
(continent) (
P
)
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Argentina
(nation) (
P
)
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La Rioja
(province) (
P
)
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La Rioja
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded 1591
city (
C
)
provincial capital (
C
)
mining center (
C
)
commercial center (
C
)
administrative center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
La Rioja..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VII, 71
.................
Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994)
107
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
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Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VII, 71
..................
Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994)
107
Note:
English
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[
VP
]
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