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ID: 7006289
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7006289
Record Type:
administrative
La Plata (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 34 52 00 S
degrees minutes
Lat: -34.8667
decimal degrees
Long: 057 55 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -57.9167
decimal degrees
Note:
City laid out similar to Washington DC; has large artificial harbor; industries include meat-packing, oil refining, chemical & electrical plants; currently part of Ensenada village.
Names:
La Plata
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Eva Perón
(
C
,
O
)
Buenos Aires
(
H
,
V
)
............
as viceroyalty in Spanish South America, 1776-1820s
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
South America
(continent) (
P
)
........
Argentina
(nation) (
P
)
............
Buenos Aires
(province) (
P
)
................
La Plata
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded as new provincial capital 1882
city (
C
)
provincial capital (
C
)
............
since 1882
port (
C
)
industrial center (
C
)
educational center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Buenos Aires..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
649
Eva Perón..........
[
VP
]
....................
Rand McNally Atlas (1994)
I-53
La Plata..........
[
BHA
,
VP Preferred
]
.................
Cambridge World Gazetteer (1988)
.................
Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994)
107
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
VP
]
..................
Cambridge World Gazetteer (1988)
..................
Rand McNally Atlas (1994)
I-53
..................
Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994)
107
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
649
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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