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ID: 1024118
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1024118
Record Type:
administrative
Latacunga (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 00 56 07 S
degrees minutes
Lat: -0.9350
decimal degrees
Long: 078 36 56 W
degrees minutes
Long: -78.6150
decimal degrees
Note:
Visited by Incan royals in pre-colonial era because of thermal springs; has suffered great damage from nearby Cotopaxi volcano & subsequent earthquakes; center of commerce for nearby cattle-rearing & farming area.
Names:
Latacunga
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
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South America
(continent) (
P
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Ecuador
(nation) (
P
)
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Cotopaxi
(province) (
P
)
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Sigchos
(inhabited place) (
P
)
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Latacunga
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
city (
C
)
provincial capital (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Latacunga..........
[
VP Preferred
]
....................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VII, 176-177
....................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-)
accessed 21 January 2014
....................
Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994)
108
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VII, 176-177
..................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-)
accessed 21 January 2014
..................
Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994)
108
Note:
English
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[
VP
]
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