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ID: 1025086
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1025086
Record Type:
administrative
Cumaná (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 10 29 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 10.4833
decimal degrees
Long: 064 12 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -64.2000
decimal degrees
Note:
Claims to be oldest European settlement on continent; almost destroyed by earthquake in 1766; industries include cotton mills & sardine canneries; Universidad de Oriente established in 1958.
Names:
Cumaná
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Nueva Toledo
(
H
,
V
)
Nueva Córdoba
(
H
,
V
)
............
founded with this name in 1523
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
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South America
(continent) (
P
)
........
Venezuela
(nation) (
P
)
............
Sucre
(state) (
P
)
................
Cumaná
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded in 1523
city (
C
)
state capital (
C
)
commercial center (
C
)
industrial center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Cumaná..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
III, 786
.................
Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994)
50
Nueva Córdoba..........
[
VP
]
..........................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
III, 786
Nueva Toledo..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
304
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
III, 786
..................
Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994)
50
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
304
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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