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ID: 7005387
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7005387
Record Type:
administrative
Ciudad Bolívar (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 08 08 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 8.1333
decimal degrees
Long: 063 33 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -63.5500
decimal degrees
Note:
River port located in NE Venezuela; Spanish name "Angostura" derived from its location on the narrows of the Orinoco River; noted as site where Simón Bolívar declared independence of Gran Colombia from Spain; was center of revolution.
Names:
Ciudad Bolívar
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Ciudad Bolivar
(
C
,
V
)
Angostura
(
H
,
V
)
San Tomás de la Nueva Guayana de la Angostura
(
H
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
South America
(continent) (
P
)
........
Venezuela
(nation) (
P
)
............
Bolívar
(state) (
P
)
................
Ciudad Bolívar
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded in 1764
city (
C
)
state capital (
C
)
port (
C
)
commercial center (
C
)
............
exports gold, hides & cattle
Sources and Contributors:
Angostura..........
[
VP
]
....................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
Ciudad Bolívar..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.............................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
268
Ciudad Bolivar..........
[
BHA
]
.............................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
San Tomás de la Nueva Guayana de la Angostura..........
[
VP
]
..........................................................................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 190
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
VP
]
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 190
..................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
268
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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