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ID: 4006155 Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/4006155			Record Type: administrative

Latin America (general region)

Coordinates:
Lat: 08 03 33 N degrees minutes			Lat: 8.0592 decimal degrees
Long: 072 35 51 E degrees minutes			Long: 72.5977 decimal degrees

Note: Generally includes the countries of North American, South America, and the Carribean that were originally colonized by Spain; it may also include other places in the area, including those colonized by the Portuguese and French.

Names:

Latin America (preferred,C,O,English-P,U,N)

Amérique Latine (C,O,French,U,N)

Spanish America (C,O,English,U,N)

Latin American (C,O,English,U,A)

Latino (C,O,English,U,A)

Latino (Spanish,U,A)

Latina (C,O,Spanish,U,A)

Latin America and the Caribbean (C,U)

Hierarchical Position:

World (facet)

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Latin America (general region) (P)

Place Types:

general region (preferred, C)

Sources and Contributors:

Amérique Latine..........	[BHA]
.............................	BHA, Authority file (1973-)

Latina..........	[VP]
.................	Oxford English Dictionary [online] (2002-)

Latin America..........	[BHA, VP Preferred]
..........................	Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..........................	Encyclopedia Britannica Online (1994-2002) accessed 04/20/2000
..........................	Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)

Latin America and the Caribbean..........	[VP]
.....................................................	GeoNames online [n.d.] 7730009

Latin American..........	[VP]
.............................	OED2 on CD-ROM (1994)

Latino..........	[VP]
.................	OED2 on CD-ROM (1994)

Spanish America..........	[VP]
.............................	Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 1145

Subject: .....	[BHA, VP]
..................	BHA, Authority file (1973-)
..................	Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................	Encyclopedia Britannica Online (1994-2002) accessed 04/20/2000
..................	GeoNames online [n.d.] 7730009
..................	OED2 on CD-ROM (1994)
..................	Oxford English Dictionary [online] (2002-)
..................	Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
..................	Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 1145
..................	Wikipedia (2000-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_of_Latin_American_and_Caribbean_States


Note:
English	..........	[VP]

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