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ID: 7005821 Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7005821			Record Type: administrative

Lima (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 12 03 00 S degrees minutes			Lat: -12.0500 decimal degrees
Long: 077 03 00 W degrees minutes			Long: -77.0500 decimal degrees

Note: Located just inland from central Peruvian coast; there were major pre-Incan and Incan urban centers in area; Spanish city was founded in 16th cen.; flourished as capital of viceroyalty of Peru; destroyed by earthquake in 1746, rebuilt in opulent fashion.

Names:

Lima (preferred,C,V)
Ciudad de los Reyes (H,V)	............	so-called because Spanish city was founded on January 6, the feast of the Three Kings (Epiphany)
City of Kings (H,O)

Hierarchical Position:

World (facet)

....

South America (continent) (P)

........

Peru (nation) (P)

............

Lima, Región de (region (administrative division)) (P)

................

Lima (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:

inhabited place (preferred, C)	............	area was inhabited for thousands of years; Spanish city was founded by conquistador Pizarro in 1535
city (C)
national capital (C)
regional capital (C)
industrial center (C)
commercial center (C)
educational center (C)	............	site of the oldest university in South America & other institutions
cultural center (C)
judicial center (H)	............	was seat of Spanish royal audencia (high court)

Related geographic places:

capital of ....	Peru .......... (nation)
..................	(World, South America) [1000056]

Sources and Contributors:

City of Kings..........	[VP]
..........................	Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 671

Ciudad de los Reyes..........	[VP]
...................................	Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) XXIII, 41

Lima..........	[BHA, FDA, VP Preferred]
...........	Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
...........	National Gallery of Art database, Washington (1987-)
...........	NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
...........	Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)

Subject: .....	[BHA, FDA, VP]
..................	Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................	Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) XXIII, 41
..................	National Gallery of Art database, Washington (1987-)
..................	NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
..................	Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
..................	Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 671


Note:
English	..........	[VP]

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