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ID: 1017763
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1017763
Record Type:
administrative
León de los Aldamas (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 21 07 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 21.1167
decimal degrees
Long: 101 40 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -101.6667
decimal degrees
Note:
Formerly subject to disastrous floods, currently protected by large dam; located in one of richest cereal-producing districts of Mexico; produces flour, leather goods, gold & silver embroideries, textiles & soap.
Names:
León de los Aldamas
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
............
since 1576
León
(
C
,
V
)
Ciudad de León
(
NA
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
........
Mexico
(nation) (
P
)
............
Guanajuato
(state) (
P
)
................
León de los Aldamas
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
settled since 1552
city (
C
)
............
established 1836
municipality (
C
)
industrial center (
C
)
commercial center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Ciudad de León..........
[
VP
]
.............................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
León..........
[
VP
]
...........
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VII, 277
...........
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
...........
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
662
León de los Aldamas..........
[
VP Preferred
]
...................................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
...................................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VII, 277
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-1679595
..................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
662
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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