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ID: 1024784
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1024784
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Talara (inhabited place)  Talara (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 04 34 00 S  degrees minutes   Lat: -4.5667  decimal degrees
Long: 081 16 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -81.2667  decimal degrees

Note: An export center for petroleum industry; rebuilt & developed by International Petroleum Company; has oil refinery; commercial production began 1914; site of pits where Spaniards boiled tar to caulk their ships & of Peru's first oil well dug in 1850.

Names:
Talara (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 Piura (region (administrative division))  ............  Piura (region (administrative division)) (P)
Hierarchy of Talara (inhabited place)  ................  Talara (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  since ca. 16th century
town (C)
port (C)
trade center (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Talara..........  [VP Preferred]
.................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) XI, 518
.................  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
.................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 1182
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) XI, 518
..................  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 1182
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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