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ID: 1021249
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1021249
Record Type:
administrative
Corumbá (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 19 00 00 S
degrees minutes
Lat: -19.0000
decimal degrees
Long: 057 35 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -57.5833
decimal degrees
Note:
Located on Paraguay River near Bolivian border; founded by Jesuit Luís de Albuquerque de Melo Pereira Cáceres; became a trading center after Parguayan War (1865-1870); iron & manganese mined in hills; produces animal hides & dried beef.
Names:
Corumbá
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
,
O
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
South America
(continent) (
P
)
........
Brazil
(nation) (
P
)
............
Mato Grosso do Sul
(state) (
P
)
................
Corumbá
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded as a military outpost & colony in 1778
city (
C
)
port (
C
)
mining center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Corumbá..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
III, 656
.................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-638795
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
49
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
III, 656
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-638795
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
49
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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