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ID: 1000581
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1000581
Record Type:
administrative
Cortés (department)
Coordinates:
Lat: 15 25 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 15.4167
decimal degrees
Long: 088 00 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -88.0000
decimal degrees
Note:
NW Honduras; borders Lake Yojoa to S & Guatemala to NW; rich soil & good rainfall have made the department an important agricultural center; chief export crop is bananas; rice, sugarcane & sweet potatoes are also grown.
Names:
Cortés
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Departamento de Cortés
(
C
,
V
,
O
)
Cortés, Departamento de
(
C
,
V
)
HO06
(
C
,
U
,
FIPS
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
........
Honduras
(nation) (
P
)
............
Cortés
(department) (
P
)
Place Types:
department (
preferred
,
C
)
first level subdivision (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Cortés..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
III, 653
.................
GeoNames online [n.d.]
3613140
.................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-)
accessed 20 February 2014
.................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-1117974
Cortés, Departamento de..........
[
VP
]
.........................................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
Departamento de Cortés..........
[
VP
]
.........................................
GeoNames online [n.d.]
3613140
.........................................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-)
accessed 20 February 2014
.........................................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-1117974
HO06..........
[
VP
]
...........
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
III, 653
..................
GeoNames online [n.d.]
3613140
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-1117974
..................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
..................
Wikipedia (2000-)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cort%C3%A9s_Department
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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