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ID: 7017074
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7017074
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Potosí (inhabited place)  Potosí (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 19 35 00 S  degrees minutes   Lat: -19.5833  decimal degrees
Long: 065 45 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -65.7500  decimal degrees

Note: One of highest cities in world; the leading industrial city of Bolivia; was at height of prosperity 1650; declined by 1825 with waning of silver industry; expanded in 19th & 20th cen. with diversification of mining & manufacturing industries. It has been on the World Heritage list since 1987.

Names:
Potosí (preferred,C,V)
Mount Potosí (C,O)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of South America (continent)  ....  South America (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Bolivia (nation)  ........  Bolivia (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Potosí (department)  ............  Potosí (department) (P)
Hierarchy of Potosí (inhabited place)  ................  Potosí (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  founded with discovery of silver in 1545
city (C)  ............  established 1546
regional capital (C)
educational center (C)
industrial center (C)
mining center (C)
World Heritage Site (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Mount Potosí..........  [BHA]
.......................  BHA, Authority file (1973-)
Potosí..........  [BHA, VP Preferred]
.................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) IX, 644
.................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 976
Subject: .....  [BHA, VP]
..................  BHA, Authority file (1973-)
..................  Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) IX, 644
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 976
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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