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ID: 1016767
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1016767
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Comayagua (inhabited place)  Comayagua (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 14 30 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 14.5000  decimal degrees
Long: 087 39 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -87.6500  decimal degrees

Note: Situated on Inter-Oceanic Highway; noted for colonial architecture, including a Spanish Baroque cathedral & four churches from 16th cen.; manufactures pharmaceuticals, shoes, resins, cement products & ceramics; site of national Agricultural Center.

Names:
Comayagua (preferred,C,V)
Valladolid la Nueva (H,V)
Valladolid de Santa María de Comayagua (H,V)  ............ original

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of North and Central America (continent)  ....  North and Central America (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Honduras (nation)  ........  Honduras (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Comayagua (department)  ............  Comayagua (department) (P)
Hierarchy of Comayagua (inhabited place)  ................  Comayagua (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  founded in 1537
city (C)
department capital (C)
commercial center (C)
agricultural center (C)
mining center (C)
national capital (H)  ............  alternated with Tegucigalpa 1824-1880
political center (H)  ............  was stronghold of conservative faction after Honduras won independence from Spain 1821; severely damaged in revolution 1827

Sources and Contributors:
Comayagua..........  [VP Preferred]
....................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) III, 478
....................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 48
Valladolid de Santa María de Comayagua..........  [VP]
.................................................................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) III, 478
Valladolid la Nueva..........  [VP]
...................................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 197
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 197
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) III, 478
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 48
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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