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ID: 1025192
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1025192
Record Type:
administrative
Mérida (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 08 36 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 8.6000
decimal degrees
Long: 071 08 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -71.1333
decimal degrees
Note:
Located at high altitude on alluvial terrace near Río Chama, surrounded by 5 peaks; frequent earthquakes & remote location have hindered development; noted for cathedral, convents & the Universidad de los Andes founded in 1785.
Names:
Mérida
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
South America
(continent) (
P
)
........
Venezuela
(nation) (
P
)
............
Mérida
(state) (
P
)
................
Mérida
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded in 1558
city (
C
)
state capital (
C
)
educational center (
C
)
religious center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Mérida..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VIII, 36
.................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VIII, 36
..................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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