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ID: 1023429
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1023429
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Copiapó (inhabited place)  Copiapó (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 27 22 00 S  degrees minutes   Lat: -27.3667  decimal degrees
Long: 070 20 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -70.3333  decimal degrees

Note: Located inland from Pacific in irrigated Río Copiapó valley; gold & silver deposits were discovered 1800s; damaged by earthquakes 1819, 1822, 1851 & 1939; connected by rail & road to Caldera & Santiago.

Names:
Copiapó (preferred,C,V)
San Francisco de la Selva (H,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of South America (continent)  ....  South America (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Chile (nation)  ........  Chile (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Atacama (region (administrative division))  ............  Atacama (region (administrative division)) (P)
Hierarchy of Copiapó (inhabited place)  ................  Copiapó (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  settled by Pedro de Valdivia 1540
city (C)
regional capital (C)
transportation center (C)
mining center (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Copiapó..........  [VP Preferred]
.................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 204
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) III, 610
.................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................  Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994) 48
San Francisco de la Selva..........  [VP]
............................................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 204
............................................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 290
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 204
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) III, 610
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -878431
..................  Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994) 48
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 290
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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