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ID: 1021621
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1021621
Record Type:
administrative
Ilhéus (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 14 50 00 S
degrees minutes
Lat: -14.8333
decimal degrees
Long: 039 06 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -39.1000
decimal degrees
Note:
Located on Ilhéus Bay; is trade center for cocoa butter, rubber, chemicals & timber; city was used by Jorge Amado as the setting for his essays on Brazilian society; is connected to Salvador, the state capital, by highway.
Names:
Ilhéus
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
,
O
)
Ilhéos
(
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
South America
(continent) (
P
)
........
Brazil
(nation) (
P
)
............
Bahia
(state) (
P
)
................
Ilhéus
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
settled by São Jorge dos Ilhéus in 1532
city (
C
)
............
given city status in 1881
agricultural center (
C
)
port (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Ilhéos..........
[
VP
]
.................
Rand McNally Atlas (1994)
I-75
Ilhéus..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VI, 258
.................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-646600
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
88
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VI, 258
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-646600
..................
Rand McNally Atlas (1994)
I-75
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
88
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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