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ID: 1016813
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1016813
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Nueva Ocotepeque (inhabited place)  Nueva Ocotepeque (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 14 24 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 14.4000  decimal degrees
Long: 089 13 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -89.2167  decimal degrees

Note: Original town was located to the northeast and was moved after the Marchala river flooded in 1935; located in productive agricultural area; wheat, tobacco, coffee and sugarcane are cultivated; livestock is reared; connected by highway to cities in Guatemala and El Salvador.

Names:
Nueva Ocotepeque (preferred,C,V)

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 Ocotepeque (department)  ............  Ocotepeque (department) (P)
Hierarchy of Nueva Ocotepeque (inhabited place)  ................  Nueva Ocotepeque (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  established after flood of 1935
town (C)
department capital (C)
trade center (C)

Related geographic places:
moved from ....  Ocotepeque .......... (deserted settlement)
..................  (World, North and Central America, Honduras, Ocotepeque) [7025319]
..................  after 1935

Sources and Contributors:
Nueva Ocotepeque..........  [VP Preferred]
.............................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) 8:823-824
.............................  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1998-2000) accessed 09/19/2000
.............................  Rand McNally Atlas (1994) Index-125
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988) VIII, 823-824; 8:823-824
..................  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1998-2000) accessed 09/19/2000
..................  Rand McNally Atlas (1994) I-125; Index-125
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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