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ID: 2103743
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/2103743
Record Type:
administrative
Del Rio (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 29 21 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 29.3500
decimal degrees
Long: 100 53 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -100.8833
decimal degrees
Note:
Located on Rio Grande river across from Ciudad Acuña, Mexico; founded as a Spanish mission; destroyed by Native Americans ca. 1675; name was shortened in 1833 to avoid confusion with San Felipe de Austin.
Names:
Del Rio
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
San Felipe Del Rio
(
H
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
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United States
(nation) (
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Texas
(state) (
P
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Val Verde
(county) (
P
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Del Rio
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
settled by Spanish missionaries in area inhabited by Native Americans; present community was founded in 1872
city (
C
)
port (
C
)
mission (
H
)
Sources and Contributors:
Del Rio..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS48005629
San Felipe Del Rio..........
[
VP
]
...................................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 236
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
I, 236
..................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS48005629
Note:
English
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[
VP
]
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