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ID: 1136422
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1136422
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Avellaneda (inhabited place)  Avellaneda (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 34 40 00 S  degrees minutes   Lat: -34.6667  decimal degrees
Long: 058 20 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -58.3333  decimal degrees

Note: Was settled by Spanish, Polish & Italian immigrants; was an industrial slum, slaughterhouse & port district during late 19th & early 20th cen.; center of Peronist activity mid-1940s; port facilities used mostly for coastal & river trade of wool & hides.

Names:
Avellaneda (preferred,C,V)  ............ since 1914, in honor of Nicholás Avellaneda
Barracas al Sur (H,V)  ............ meaning "huts to the South"

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of South America (continent)  ....  South America (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Argentina (nation)  ........  Argentina (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Buenos Aires (province)  ............  Buenos Aires (province) (P)
Hierarchy of Avellaneda (inhabited place)  ................  Avellaneda (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  settled since mid-19th cen.
city (C)
port (C)
suburb (C)
trade center (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Avellaneda..........  [VP Preferred]
.......................  Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994) 18
.......................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 99
Barracas al Sur..........  [VP]
.............................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) I, 735
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) I, 735
..................  Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994) 18
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 99
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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