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ID: 1024149
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1024149
Record Type:
administrative
Riobamba (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 01 40 16 S
degrees minutes
Lat: -1.6710
decimal degrees
Long: 078 38 50 W
degrees minutes
Long: -78.6470
decimal degrees
Note:
Town's history dates from pre-Incan & Incan era; site of first Ecuadorian constitutional congress which initiated the republic 1830; manufactured goods include carpets, cement, ceramics, shoes & textiles; base of Guayaquil-Quito railroad.
Names:
Riobamba
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
South America
(continent) (
P
)
........
Ecuador
(nation) (
P
)
............
Chimborazo
(province) (
P
)
................
Riobamba
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
town (
C
)
provincial capital (
C
)
episcopal see (
C
)
............
established 1863
trade center (
C
)
educational center (
C
)
............
polytechnic school established 1969
Sources and Contributors:
Riobamba..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
X, 85
.................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-)
accessed 21 January 2014
.................
Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994)
162
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
X, 85
..................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-)
accessed 21 January 2014
..................
Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994)
162
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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