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ID: 1016738
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1016738
Record Type:
administrative
Gonaïves (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 19 26 51 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 19.4470
decimal degrees
Long: 072 41 21 W
degrees minutes
Long: -72.6890
decimal degrees
Note:
Located on the NE shore of the Golfe de la Gonäve; was originally an Amerindian village (Gonaibo) & a natural harbor; serves as port for the fertile Artibonite plain; French captured revolutionary war hero Toussaint-Louverture nearby.
Names:
Gonaïves
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Les Gonaïves
(
C
,
V
)
Ville des Gonaïves
(
C
,
V
)
Gonaibo
(
H
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
........
Haiti
(nation) (
P
)
............
Artibonite
(department) (
P
)
................
Gonaïves
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded as an Amerindian village
town (
C
)
port (
C
)
department capital (
C
)
commercial center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Gonaibo..........
[
VP
]
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
V, 355
Gonaïves..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-)
accessed 13 March 2014
.................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
Les Gonaïves..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 341
Ville des Gonaïves..........
[
VP
]
...................................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-)
accessed 13 March 2014
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 341
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
V, 355
..................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-)
accessed 12 March 2014
..................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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