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ID: 1024119
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1024119
Record Type:
administrative
Loja (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 03 59 00 S
degrees minutes
Lat: -3.9833
decimal degrees
Long: 079 16 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -79.2667
decimal degrees
Note:
Situated on Pan-American Highway; developed under Spanish colonial rule as center for cinchona trade; today is an agricultural center & an industrial center that produces tanned leather & textiles.
Names:
Loja
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
South America
(continent) (
P
)
........
Ecuador
(nation) (
P
)
............
Loja
(province) (
P
)
................
Loja
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded by Spanish captain Alonso de Mercadillo 1553
city (
C
)
provincial capital (
C
)
episcopal see (
C
)
............
of Roman Catholic Church, 1862
educational center (
C
)
trade center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Loja..........
[
VP Preferred
]
...........
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VII, 452
...........
Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994)
112
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VII, 452
..................
Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994)
112
Note:
English
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[
VP
]
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