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ID: 1024427
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1024427
Record Type:
administrative
Cerro de Pasco (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 10 41 00 S
degrees minutes
Lat: -10.6833
decimal degrees
Long: 076 16 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -76.2667
decimal degrees
Note:
One of the world's highest cities; became a major mining center after silver was discovered in 1630; copper, gold, lead, zinc & bismuth are also mined nearby.
Names:
Cerro de Pasco
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
South America
(continent) (
P
)
........
Perú
(nation) (
P
)
............
Pasco
(region (administrative division)) (
P
)
................
Cerro de Pasco
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
settled since early 17th cen.
city (
C
)
regional capital (
C
)
mining center (
C
)
transportation center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Cerro de Pasco..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.............................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
III, 40
.............................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
III, 40
..................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
Note:
English
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[
VP
]
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