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ID: 1024692
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1024692
Record Type:
administrative
Piura (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 05 12 00 S
degrees minutes
Lat: -5.2000
decimal degrees
Long: 080 38 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -80.6333
decimal degrees
Note:
Oldest Spanish city in Peru; the commercial center of northwestern Peru; produces cotton, rice & sugarcane; has cotton market with cotton gins & cottonseed oil mills & small manufacturing plants; retains colonial style.
Names:
Piura
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
San Miguel de Piura
(
H
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
South America
(continent) (
P
)
........
Peru
(nation) (
P
)
............
Piura
(region (administrative division)) (
P
)
................
Piura
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded by Pizarro, 1532
city (
C
)
regional capital (
C
)
commercial center (
C
)
transportation center (
C
)
educational center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Piura..........
[
VP Preferred
]
..............
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
..............
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
959
San Miguel de Piura..........
[
VP
]
...................................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
IX, 482
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
IX, 482
..................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
959
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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