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ID: 1025029
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1025029
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Barquisimeto (inhabited place)  Barquisimeto (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 10 04 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 10.0667  decimal degrees
Long: 069 20 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -69.3333  decimal degrees

Note: Located at altitude of 2000 feet on wide terrace of Río Turbio, in strategic position on major routes; became a gold mining center in 16th cen.; famous for attack by pirate Lope de Aguirre in 1561; damaged by earthquake in 1812 & in wars of 19th cen.

Names:
Barquisimeto (preferred,C,V)
Nueva Segovia (H,V)  ............ named by founder Juan de Villegas after Segovia, Spain

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of South America (continent)  ....  South America (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Venezuela (nation)  ........  Venezuela (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Lara (state)  ............  Lara (state) (P)
Hierarchy of Barquisimeto (inhabited place)  ................  Barquisimeto (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  founded in 1552
city (C)
state capital (C)
agricultural center (C)  ............  for cattle & cacao
industrial center (C)  ............  produces rope & cement

Sources and Contributors:
Barquisimeto..........  [VP Preferred]
.......................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) I, 911
.......................  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
Nueva Segovia..........  [VP]
..........................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) I, 911
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) I, 911
..................  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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