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ID: 1136446
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1136446
Record Type:
administrative
Mercedes (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 33 41 00 S
degrees minutes
Lat: -33.6833
decimal degrees
Long: 065 28 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -65.4667
decimal degrees
Note:
Continually attacked by Amerindians & mountain rebels 1863-1865; an important grain & cattle producing area; has large grain mill & refrigerator plants processing beef for export.
Names:
Mercedes
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Villa Mercedes
(
C
,
V
)
............
since 1861
Fuerte Constitucional
(
H
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
South America
(continent) (
P
)
........
Argentina
(nation) (
P
)
............
San Luis
(province) (
P
)
................
Mercedes
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded 1856
city (
C
)
............
established 1896
agricultural center (
C
)
trade center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Fuerte Constitucional..........
[
VP
]
......................................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VIII, 27
Mercedes..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994)
124
Villa Mercedes..........
[
VP
]
.............................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VIII, 27
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VIII, 27
..................
Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994)
124
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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