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ID: 1000532
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1000532
Record Type:
administrative
Boquerón (department)
Coordinates:
Lat: 21 30 00 S
degrees minutes
Lat: -21.5000
decimal degrees
Long: 060 00 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -60.0000
decimal degrees
Note:
Located in NW Paraguay, bordering Bolivia & Argentina; produces quebracho timber, soybeans, cotton, broomcorn & peanuts; is home to endangered jaguars, pumas, tapirs, wild hogs & foxes.
Names:
Boquerón
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Departamento de Boquerón
(
C
,
V
,
O
)
Decimosexto Departamento
(
C
,
U
)
PA24
(
C
,
U
,
FIPS
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
South America
(continent) (
P
)
........
Paraguay
(nation) (
P
)
............
Boquerón
(department) (
P
)
Additional Parents:
World
(facet)
....
South America
(continent) (
P
)
........
Paraguay
(nation) (
P
)
............
Región Occidental
(region (geographic)) (
P
)
................
Boquerón
(department) (
P
)
Place Types:
department (
preferred
,
C
)
............
established 1944; boundaries reorganized 1974
first level subdivision (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Boquerón..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
II, 377
.................
GeoNames online [n.d.]
3867442
.................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-)
accessed 22 January 2014
.................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-910084
.................
Rand McNally Atlas (1994)
I-22
Decimosexto Departamento..........
[
VP
]
.........................................
GeoNames online [n.d.]
3867442
.........................................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-910084
Departamento de Boquerón..........
[
VP
]
.........................................
GeoNames online [n.d.]
3867442
.........................................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-)
accessed 22 January 2014
.........................................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-910084
PA24..........
[
VP
]
...........
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
II, 377
..................
GeoNames online [n.d.]
3867442
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-910084
..................
Rand McNally Atlas (1994)
I-22
..................
Wikipedia (2000-)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boquer%C3%B3n_Department
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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