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ID: 1126366
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1126366
Record Type:
physical
Los Angeles (river)
Coordinates:
Lat: 34 11 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 34.1833
decimal degrees
Long: 118 36 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -118.6000
decimal degrees
Note:
Named by Franciscan friars for the feast day of the Blessed Virgin of the Porciuncula chapel in Italy, where St. Francis of Assisi founded the Franciscan order.
Names:
Los Angeles
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Los Angeles River
(
C
,
V
,
display
)
El Rio Valle de la Nuestra Señora de los Angeles de Porciuncula
(
H
,
V
)
............
named by Padre Juan Cesip in 1769
Hierarchical Position:
World
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North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
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United States
(nation) (
P
)
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California
(state) (
P
)
................
Los Angeles
(county) (
P
)
....................
Los Angeles
(river) (
P
)
Place Types:
river (
preferred
,
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
El Rio Valle de la Nuestra Señora de los Angeles de Porciuncula..........
[
VP
]
.....................................................................................................
City Names, Los Angeles Times (2007)
Los Angeles..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.......................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS6051212
.......................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
Los Angeles River..........
[
VP
]
................................
Los Angeles Public Library [online] (2004-)
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
City Names, Los Angeles Times (2007)
..................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS6051212
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
..........
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
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© 2004 J. Paul Getty Trust
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