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ID: 1019188
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1019188
Record Type:
administrative
Bahía Blanca (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 38 45 00 S
degrees minutes
Lat: -38.7500
decimal degrees
Long: 062 15 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -62.2500
decimal degrees
Note:
Settlement grew out of military post established against Amerindian attacks 1828; has many subsidiary ports with modern facilities; has major petrochemical complex since late 1970s; site of a major library & various museums.
Names:
Bahía Blanca
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
............
since 1895
Nueva Buenos Aires
(
H
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
South America
(continent) (
P
)
........
Argentina
(nation) (
P
)
............
Buenos Aires
(province) (
P
)
................
Bahía Blanca
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
settled since 18th cen.
city (
C
)
port (
C
)
trade center (
C
)
commercial center (
C
)
............
since 1884
educational center (
C
)
military installation (
H
)
Sources and Contributors:
Bahía Blanca..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.......................
Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994)
19
.......................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
107
Nueva Buenos Aires..........
[
VP
]
...................................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
I, 800
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
I, 800
..................
Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994)
19
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
107
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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