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ID: 7005838
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7005838
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Tumbes (inhabited place)  Tumbes (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 03 37 00 S  degrees minutes   Lat: -3.6167  decimal degrees
Long: 080 27 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -80.4500  decimal degrees

Note: Located on Tumbes river NW of Lima near Ecuador border; landing site of Pizarro for his invasion of Peru.

Names:
Tumbes (preferred,C,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of South America (continent)  ....  South America (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Peru (nation)  ........  Peru (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Tumbes (region (administrative division))  ............  Tumbes (region (administrative division)) (P)
Hierarchy of Tumbes (inhabited place)  ................  Tumbes (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  founded 1527
town (C)
regional capital (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Tumbes..........  [VP Preferred]
.................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 202
.................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 1234
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 202
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 1234
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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