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ID: 1024509 Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1024509			Record Type: administrative

Huánuco (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 09 55 00 S degrees minutes			Lat: -9.9167 decimal degrees
Long: 076 11 00 W degrees minutes			Long: -76.1833 decimal degrees

Note: Rose to prominence during colonial era as missionary center; its citizens were active in struggle for independence from Spain; produces sugarcane, cotton, coffee, cacao & fruit; has cotton gins & sugar mills; located near pre-Columbian ruins at Kotosh.

Names:

Huánuco (preferred,C,V)

León de los Caballeros de Huánuco (H,V)

Hierarchical Position:

World (facet)

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South America (continent) (P)

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Peru (nation) (P)

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Huánuco (region (administrative division)) (P)

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Huánuco (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:

inhabited place (preferred, C)	............	founded by Gómez Alvarado, 1539
city (C)
regional capital (C)
trade center (C)
tourist center (C)
transportation center (C)
educational center (C)
resort (C)
capital (H)	............	of Junín department until 1855
mission (H)

Sources and Contributors:

Huánuco..........	[VP Preferred]
.................	Times Atlas of the World (1994) 86
.................	Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 517

León de los Caballeros de Huánuco..........	[VP]
........................................................	Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VI, 112

Subject: .....	[VP]
..................	Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VI, 112
..................	Times Atlas of the World (1994) 86
..................	Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 517


Note:
English	..........	[VP]

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