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ID: 1020422
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1020422
Record Type:
administrative
Santa Cruz (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 17 45 00 S
degrees minutes
Lat: -17.7500
decimal degrees
Long: 063 14 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -63.2333
decimal degrees
Note:
Bolivia's second largest city; declared independence from Spain 1811; was briefly captured by royalist forces; trade center for subtropical & tropical crops; has large reserves of natural gas; manufactures leather products & alcohol.
Names:
Santa Cruz
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Santa Cruz de la Sierra
(
H
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
South America
(continent) (
P
)
........
Bolivia
(nation) (
P
)
............
Santa Cruz
(department) (
P
)
................
Santa Cruz
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded by Spaniards from Paraguay, 1560
city (
C
)
regional capital (
C
)
trade center (
C
)
transportation center (
C
)
educational center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Santa Cruz..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.......................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
175
.......................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
1074
Santa Cruz de la Sierra..........
[
VP
]
.........................................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
X, 425
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
X, 425
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1994)
175
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
1074
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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