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ID: 1013049
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1013049
Record Type:
administrative
Orange Walk (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 18 06 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 18.1000
decimal degrees
Long: 088 31 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -88.5167
decimal degrees
Note:
Situated on W bank of New River; established in early colonial times, but ruined by Amerindians in 1872; site of thriving mahogany trade in early 20th cen.; sugar refining & rum distilling are main economic activities.
Names:
Orange Walk
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
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North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
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Belize
(nation) (
P
)
............
Orange Walk
(national district) (
P
)
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Orange Walk
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
was noted colonial center
town (
C
)
district capital (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Orange Walk..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.......................
Britannica Book of the Year (1992)
554
.......................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
146
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
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Britannica Book of the Year (1992)
554
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
146
Note:
English
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[
VP
]
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