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ID: 1023429
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1023429
Record Type:
administrative
Copiapó (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 27 22 00 S
degrees minutes
Lat: -27.3667
decimal degrees
Long: 070 20 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -70.3333
decimal degrees
Note:
Located inland from Pacific in irrigated Río Copiapó valley; gold & silver deposits were discovered 1800s; damaged by earthquakes 1819, 1822, 1851 & 1939; connected by rail & road to Caldera & Santiago.
Names:
Copiapó
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
San Francisco de la Selva
(
H
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
South America
(continent) (
P
)
........
Chile
(nation) (
P
)
............
Atacama
(region (administrative division)) (
P
)
................
Copiapó
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
settled by Pedro de Valdivia 1540
city (
C
)
regional capital (
C
)
transportation center (
C
)
mining center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Copiapó..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 204
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
III, 610
.................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
.................
Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994)
48
San Francisco de la Selva..........
[
VP
]
............................................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 204
............................................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
290
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 204
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
III, 610
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-878431
..................
Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994)
48
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
290
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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