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ID: 1024382
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1024382

 

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

Coordinates:
Lat: 12 09 00 S  degrees minutes   Lat: -12.1500  decimal degrees
Long: 077 02 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -77.0333  decimal degrees

Note: Founded as a village beach resort; sacked & burned by Chilean forces during War of the Pacific 1881; a middle & high income residential district; has Pedro de Osma Museum containing extensive collection of colonial artifacts.

Names:
Barranco (preferred,C,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of South America (continent)  ....  South America (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Peru (nation)  ........  Peru (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Lima, Región de (region (administrative division))  ............  Lima, Región de (region (administrative division)) (P)
Hierarchy of Barranco (inhabited place)  ................  Barranco (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  founded 1874
city (C)  ............  established 1901
resort (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Barranco..........  [VP Preferred]
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) I, 912
.................  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
.................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 119
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) I, 912
..................  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 119
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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