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ID: 7005077
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7005077
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Tunja (inhabited place)  Tunja (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 05 33 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 5.5500  decimal degrees
Long: 073 23 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -73.3833  decimal degrees

Note: Located in central Colombia, in the Cordillery Oriental of the Andes on the trans-Andean highway; scene of independent junta 1811, & in 1819 served as Bolívar's base for victory over Spanish at Boyacá; has technical university since 1962.

Names:
Tunja (preferred,C,V)
Hunza (H,O)  ............ as called by local Chibcha Indians

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of South America (continent)  ....  South America (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Colombia (nation)  ........  Colombia (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Boyacá (department)  ............  Boyacá (department) (P)
Hierarchy of Tunja (inhabited place)  ................  Tunja (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  founded by Gonzalo Suárez Rendón, 1539
town (C)
regional capital (C)
commercial center (C)
market center (C)
agricultural center (C)
educational center (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Hunza..........  [VP]
..............  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) XII, 44
Tunja..........  [BHA, VP Preferred]
..............  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..............  Fodor's: South America (1990)
..............  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 202
..............  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
..............  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 1235
Subject: .....  [BHA, VP]
..................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) XII, 44
..................  Fodor's: South America (1990)
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 202
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 1235
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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