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ID: 1024449
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1024449
Record Type:
administrative
Chimbote (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 09 04 00 S
degrees minutes
Lat: -9.0667
decimal degrees
Long: 078 34 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -78.5667
decimal degrees
Note:
Rapidly developed as industrial center with steel mills & factories in mid-20th cen.; exports fish meal, fish oil, bulk minerals, machine parts & cast iron; was destroyed by earthquake in 1907, but rebuilt.
Names:
Chimbote
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
South America
(continent) (
P
)
........
Peru
(nation) (
P
)
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Ancash
(region (administrative division)) (
P
)
................
Chimbote
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
settled since late 18th cen.
city (
C
)
............
created in mid-20th cen.
port (
C
)
trade center (
C
)
industrial center (
C
)
transportation center (
C
)
fishing community (
H
)
............
established 1822
Sources and Contributors:
Chimbote..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
III, 215-216
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
45
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
257
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
III, 215-216
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
45
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
257
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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