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ID: 1025202
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1025202
Record Type:
administrative
Maracaibo (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 10 40 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 10.6667
decimal degrees
Long: 071 37 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -71.6167
decimal degrees
Note:
Nation's second largest city & seaport; was sacked by pirates in 1669; developed as a coffee port; became a major petroleum center after 1917; Universidad de Zulia was established in 1946.
Names:
Maracaibo
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Nueva Zamora
(
H
,
V
)
............
founded 1571
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
South America
(continent) (
P
)
........
Venezuela
(nation) (
P
)
............
Zulia
(state) (
P
)
................
Maracaibo
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded in 1571
city (
C
)
state capital (
C
)
industrial center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Maracaibo..........
[
VP Preferred
]
....................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VII, 811
....................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
Nueva Zamora..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VII, 811
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VII, 811
..................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
Note:
English
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[
VP
]
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