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ID: 1024057
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1024057
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Valledupar (inhabited place)  Valledupar (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 10 31 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 10.5167  decimal degrees
Long: 073 16 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -73.2667  decimal degrees

Note: Located in N Colombia; settlement prospered during colonial era, but suffered damage in 19th-cen. civil wars; currently a commercial center for agricultural & pastoral hinterland; factories produce ice & bricks; has a sawmill; served by domestic airlines.

Names:
Valledupar (preferred,C,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of South America (continent)  ....  South America (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Colombia (nation)  ........  Colombia (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Cesar (department)  ............  Cesar (department) (P)
Hierarchy of Valledupar (inhabited place)  ................  Valledupar (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  founded 1550
town (C)
regional capital (C)
commercial center (C)
agricultural center (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Valledupar..........  [VP Preferred]
.......................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) XII, 248
.......................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 206
.......................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 1283
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) XII, 248
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 206
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 1283
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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