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ID: 1024310
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1024310
Record Type:
administrative
Ciudad del Este (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 25 31 00 S
degrees minutes
Lat: -25.5167
decimal degrees
Long: 054 37 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -54.6167
decimal degrees
Note:
Located on Paraná river near Brazilian border; area transformed over twenty years from tropical forest to nation's second largest city; products include ceramics & sausage; tourist centers of Itaipú dam & Iquaçú Falls are situated nearby.
Names:
Ciudad del Este
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Ciudad Presidente Stroessner
(
H
,
V
)
Puerto Presidente Stroessner
(
H
,
V
)
............
named for Alfredo Stroessner, began his rule in 1954, overthrown on February 3, 1989
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
South America
(continent) (
P
)
........
Paraguay
(nation) (
P
)
............
Alto Paraná
(department) (
P
)
................
Ciudad del Este
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded 1957
city (
C
)
department capital (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Ciudad del Este..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.............................
Britannica Book of the Year (1992)
679
.............................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
Ciudad Presidente Stroessner..........
[
VP
]
...............................................
Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990)
523-524
Puerto Presidente Stroessner..........
[
VP
]
...............................................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
IX, 787
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Britannica Book of the Year (1992)
679
..................
Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990)
523-524
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
IX, 787
..................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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