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ID: 7007115
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7007115

 

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

Coordinates:
Lat: 25 40 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 25.6667  decimal degrees
Long: 100 19 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -100.3167  decimal degrees

Note: Mexico's third largest city; one of most energetic & up to date industrial complexes in hemisphere; developed as center of metallurgical industry after 1882; Topo Chico hot springs & García caves are nearby; taken by US in Mexican War 1846.

Names:
Monterrey (preferred,C,V)
Monterey (C,O)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of North and Central America (continent)  ....  North and Central America (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Mexico (nation)  ........  Mexico (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Nuevo León (state)  ............  Nuevo León (state) (P)
Hierarchy of Monterrey (inhabited place)  ................  Monterrey (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  founded 1579
city (C)
state capital (C)
industrial center (C)
agricultural center (C)
educational center (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Monterey..........  [VP]
.................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 786
Monterrey..........  [BHA, VP Preferred]
....................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) XII, 283
....................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
....................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 130
....................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Subject: .....  [BHA, VP]
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) XII, 283
..................  NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2004-2008) accessed 15 March 2006
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -1684228
..................  Rand McNally Atlas (1991)
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 130
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 786
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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