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ID: 1024122
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1024122
Record Type:
administrative
Macas (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 02 18 31 S
degrees minutes
Lat: -2.3080
decimal degrees
Long: 078 06 41 W
degrees minutes
Long: -78.1110
decimal degrees
Note:
Located in SE Ecuador; is trade center for cassava, bananas, papayas, coffee & cacao; site of a Salesian mission & a military base with airfield.
Names:
Macas
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
............
refounded after insurrection by Jívaro Indians 1599
Sevilla del Oro
(
H
,
V
)
............
upon town's founding mid-1500s
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
South America
(continent) (
P
)
........
Ecuador
(nation) (
P
)
............
Morona-Santiago
(province) (
P
)
................
Macas
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
originally founded by Spanish captain José Villanueva Maldonado mid-1500s
town (
C
)
provincial capital (
C
)
trade center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Macas..........
[
VP Preferred
]
..............
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VII, 605
..............
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-)
accessed 16 January 2014
..............
Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994)
115
Sevilla del Oro..........
[
VP
]
.............................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VII, 605
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VII, 605
..................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-)
accessed 16 January 2014
..................
Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994)
115
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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