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ID: 1019872
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1019872
Record Type:
administrative
Posadas (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 27 27 00 S
degrees minutes
Lat: -27.4500
decimal degrees
Long: 055 50 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -55.8333
decimal degrees
Note:
Originated as Paraguayan trading post & river port; large portion of its population works in public service; manufactures wood & iron products; has ferry linking Posadas & Encarnacíon.
Names:
Posadas
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
............
since 1979, referring to national hero, Gervasio Antonio Posadas
Trinchera de los Paraguayos
(
H
,
V
)
Trinchera de San José
(
H
,
V
)
............
during Paraguayan War 1869-1879
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
South America
(continent) (
P
)
........
Argentina
(nation) (
P
)
............
Misiones
(province) (
P
)
................
Posadas
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
settled since early 19th cen.
city (
C
)
provincial capital (
C
)
port (
C
)
administrative center (
C
)
transportation center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Posadas..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994)
154
.................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
976
Trinchera de los Paraguayos..........
[
VP
]
...............................................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
IX, 635
Trinchera de San José..........
[
VP
]
......................................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
IX, 635
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
IX, 635
..................
Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994)
154
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
976
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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