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ID: 7006456
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7006456
Record Type:
administrative
Balboa (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 08 57 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 8.9500
decimal degrees
Long: 079 33 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -79.5500
decimal degrees
Note:
Located between canal docks & Anćon Hill, which separates it from Panamá City; has extensive harbor, drydocks & marine repair facilities; noted for gardens that produce over 400 varieties of orchids.
Names:
Balboa
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
........
Panama
(nation) (
P
)
............
Panamá
(province) (
P
)
................
Balboa
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded in 1914 & named for explorer Vasco Núñez de Balbao
city (
C
)
port (
C
)
industrial center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Balboa..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
I, 824
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
20
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
I, 824
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
20
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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