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ID: 1017336
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1017336

 

Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Culiacán (inhabited place)  Culiacán (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 24 47 58 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 24.7994  decimal degrees
Long: 107 23 23 W  degrees minutes   Long: -107.3897  decimal degrees

Note: Was important base for early Spanish colonial expeditions; an elaborate irrigation system in valley allows cultivation of corn, sugarcane, tobacco, fruits & vegetables; seat of Autonomous University of Sinaloa.

Names:
Culiacán (preferred,C,V)
Culiacán-Rosales (C,V)
Cuilacan (NA,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of North and Central America (continent)  ....  North and Central America (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Mexico (nation)  ........  Mexico (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Sinaloa (state)  ............  Sinaloa (state) (P)
Hierarchy of Culiacán (inhabited place)  ................  Culiacán (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  founded 1531
city (C)
state capital (C)
commercial center (C)
agricultural center (C)
transportation center (C)
educational center (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Cuilacan..........  [VP]
.................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
Culiacán..........  [VP Preferred]
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) III, 781
.................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 51
Culiacán-Rosales..........  [VP]
.............................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 303
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) III, 781
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -1660347
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 51
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 303
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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