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ID: 1019088
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1019088
Record Type:
administrative
Port of Spain (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 10 38 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 10.6333
decimal degrees
Long: 061 31 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -61.5167
decimal degrees
Note:
Located on W coast; originally an Amerindian settlement; developed by Spanish settlers as the capital of the island in 16th cen.; city plan is laid out in geometric patterns radiating out from Woodward Square.
Names:
Port of Spain
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
............
anglicized version of the name used by British since 1797
Port-of-Spain
(
C
,
V
)
Puerto Espãna
(
C
,
O
)
Conquerabia
(
H
,
V
)
............
original Amerindian name for site
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
........
Trinidad and Tobago
(nation) (
P
)
............
City of Port of Spain
(city) (
P
)
................
Port of Spain
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded by Spanish on site of an Amerindian settlement
city (
C
)
national capital (
C
)
port (
C
)
commercial center (
C
)
capital (
H
)
............
of island of Trinidad, from 1595
Related geographic places:
capital of ....
Trinidad and Tobago
.......... (nation)
..................
(World, North and Central America) [7004787]
Sources and Contributors:
Conquerabia..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 751
Port of Spain..........
[
VP Preferred
]
..........................
Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990)
516
..........................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 751
..........................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
157
Port-of-Spain..........
[
VP
]
..........................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
IX, 622
Puerto Espãna..........
[
VP
]
..........................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 751
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990)
516
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 751
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
IX, 622
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
157
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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