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ID: 7007117
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7007117
Record Type:
administrative
Oaxaca de Juárez (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 17 03 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 17.0500
decimal degrees
Long: 096 43 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -96.7167
decimal degrees
Note:
Conquered by Spaniards 1521; holds important role in Mexican history as home of Benito Juárez & Porfirio Díaz, two of Mexico's most famous presidents; noted for 16th cen. art & architecture, many nearby ruins & for its handicraft market.
Names:
Oaxaca de Juárez
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Oaxaca
(
C
,
V
)
Santa Maria
(
NA
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
........
Mexico
(nation) (
P
)
............
Oaxaca
(state) (
P
)
................
Oaxaca de Juárez
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded as Aztec garrison, 1486
city (
C
)
state capital (
C
)
transportation center (
C
)
educational center (
C
)
historic site (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Oaxaca..........
[
BHA
,
VP
]
.................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VIII, 848
.................
Encyclopedia of World Art (1959-1987)
.................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................
USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
878
Oaxaca de Juárez..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.............................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.............................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
Santa Maria..........
[
VP
]
.......................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
VP
]
..................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VIII, 848
..................
Encyclopedia of World Art (1959-1987)
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-1685634
..................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
..................
USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
878
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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