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ID: 7005074
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7005074
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Popayán (inhabited place)  Popayán (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 02 27 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 2.4500  decimal degrees
Long: 076 32 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -76.5333  decimal degrees

Note: Noted for the Pre-Columbian pyramid, El Morro del Tulcán. Located in SW Colombia, S of Cali at foot of Mt. Puracé; chiefly a cultural center having some local industry; has university since 1827; the center of a mining region & important residential, administrative & religious center of colonial era.

Names:
Popayán (preferred,C,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of South America (continent)  ....  South America (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Colombia (nation)  ........  Colombia (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Cauca (department)  ............  Cauca (department) (P)
Hierarchy of Popayán (inhabited place)  ................  Popayán (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  founded 1537
city (C)
archaeological site (C)
regional capital (C)
industrial center (C)
educational center (C)
administrative center (H)  ............  during colonial era
religious center (H)  ............  Pre-Columbian, and during colonial era
mining center (H)  ............  during colonial era
Pre-Columbian (H)

Sources and Contributors:
Popayán..........  [BHA, VP Preferred]
.................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 156
.................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 969
Subject: .....  [BHA, VP]
..................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 156
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 969
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
..........  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)

 

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