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ID: 1023493
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1023493
Record Type:
administrative
La Serena (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 29 54 28 S
degrees minutes
Lat: -29.9078
decimal degrees
Long: 071 15 15 W
degrees minutes
Long: -71.2542
decimal degrees
Note:
Located E of Coquimbo city; was ruined by Diaguita Amerindians in 1549 & reconstructed; site of a catherdral & numerous churches & convents; linked by railroad, bus & air to nation's capital.
Names:
La Serena
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
South America
(continent) (
P
)
........
Chile
(nation) (
P
)
............
Coquimbo
(region (administrative division)) (
P
)
................
La Serena
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded about 1543
city (
C
)
............
since 1552
regional capital (
C
)
transportation center (
C
)
religious center (
C
)
tourist center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
La Serena..........
[
VP Preferred
]
....................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VII, 75
....................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
....................
Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994)
108
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VII, 75
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-887872
..................
Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994)
108
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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