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ID: 1017964
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1017964
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Orizaba (inhabited place)  Orizaba (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 18 51 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 18.8500  decimal degrees
Long: 097 06 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -97.1000  decimal degrees

Note: Was an Aztec garrison guarding strategic routes between Veracruz port & Mexico City; one of first Mexican textile centers; licensed under crown monopoly to produce tobacco; has long colonial past reflected in public buildings; ruined in earthquake 1973.

Names:
Orizaba (preferred,C,V)
Ahuaializapan (H,V)  ............ during Aztec era

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 Veracruz (state)  ............  Veracruz (state) (P)
Hierarchy of Orizaba (inhabited place)  ................  Orizaba (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  settled since Aztec era
city (C)  ............  established 1774
agricultural center (C)
industrial center (C)
tourist center (C)
educational center (C)
resort (C)
town (H)  ............  established by Spaniards, 16th cen.

Sources and Contributors:
Ahuaializapan..........  [VP]
..........................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VIII, 1001
Orizaba..........  [VP Preferred]
.................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 146
.................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 900
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VIII, 1001
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -1686292
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 146
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 900
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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