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ID: 7005077
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7005077
Record Type:
administrative
Tunja (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 05 33 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 5.5500
decimal degrees
Long: 073 23 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -73.3833
decimal degrees
Note:
Located in central Colombia, in the Cordillery Oriental of the Andes on the trans-Andean highway; scene of independent junta 1811, & in 1819 served as Bolívar's base for victory over Spanish at Boyacá; has technical university since 1962.
Names:
Tunja
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hunza
(
H
,
O
)
............
as called by local Chibcha Indians
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
South America
(continent) (
P
)
........
Colombia
(nation) (
P
)
............
Boyacá
(department) (
P
)
................
Tunja
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded by Gonzalo Suárez Rendón, 1539
town (
C
)
regional capital (
C
)
commercial center (
C
)
market center (
C
)
agricultural center (
C
)
educational center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Hunza..........
[
VP
]
..............
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
XII, 44
Tunja..........
[
BHA
,
VP Preferred
]
..............
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..............
Fodor's: South America (1990)
..............
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
202
..............
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
..............
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
1235
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
VP
]
..................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
XII, 44
..................
Fodor's: South America (1990)
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
202
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
1235
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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