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ID: 1024698
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1024698
Record Type:
administrative
Pucallpa (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 08 21 00 S
degrees minutes
Lat: -8.3500
decimal degrees
Long: 074 33 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -74.5500
decimal degrees
Note:
Was an isolated frontier community until Lima-Pucallpa highway arrived in 1945; now is largest community in Ucayali; is market center for local agricultural produce; headquarters of many missionary groups.
Names:
Pucallpa
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
South America
(continent) (
P
)
........
Peru
(nation) (
P
)
............
Ucayali
(region (administrative division)) (
P
)
................
Pucallpa
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded 1534
town (
C
)
regional capital (
C
)
industrial center (
C
)
market center (
C
)
community (
H
)
Sources and Contributors:
Pucallpa..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
IX, 781
.................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
158
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
985
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
IX, 781
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
158
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
985
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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