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ID: 1025190
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1025190
Record Type:
administrative
Los Teques (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 10 21 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 10.3500
decimal degrees
Long: 067 02 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -67.0333
decimal degrees
Note:
Named for Amerindian tribe whose chief, Guaicaipuro (died ca. 1560), resisted the Spanish conquistadors search for gold in the hills; was later residential & resort area for Caracas until industrial development began in 1970s.
Names:
Los Teques
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
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South America
(continent) (
P
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Venezuela
(nation) (
P
)
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Miranda
(state) (
P
)
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Los Teques
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
1st settled by Amerindians
city (
C
)
state capital (
C
)
industrial center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Los Teques..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.......................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VII, 486
.......................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VII, 486
..................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
Note:
English
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[
VP
]
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