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ID: 1024310
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1024310
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Ciudad del Este (inhabited place)  Ciudad del Este (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 25 31 00 S  degrees minutes   Lat: -25.5167  decimal degrees
Long: 054 37 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -54.6167  decimal degrees

Note: Located on Paraná river near Brazilian border; area transformed over twenty years from tropical forest to nation's second largest city; products include ceramics & sausage; tourist centers of Itaipú dam & Iquaçú Falls are situated nearby.

Names:
Ciudad del Este (preferred,C,V)
Ciudad Presidente Stroessner (H,V)
Puerto Presidente Stroessner (H,V)  ............ named for Alfredo Stroessner, began his rule in 1954, overthrown on February 3, 1989

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of South America (continent)  ....  South America (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Paraguay (nation)  ........  Paraguay (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Alto Paraná (department)  ............  Alto Paraná (department) (P)
Hierarchy of Ciudad del Este (inhabited place)  ................  Ciudad del Este (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  founded 1957
city (C)
department capital (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Ciudad del Este..........  [VP Preferred]
.............................  Britannica Book of the Year (1992) 679
.............................  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
Ciudad Presidente Stroessner..........  [VP]
...............................................  Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990) 523-524
Puerto Presidente Stroessner..........  [VP]
...............................................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) IX, 787
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Britannica Book of the Year (1992) 679
..................  Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990) 523-524
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) IX, 787
..................  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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