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ID: 1024124
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1024124
Record Type:
administrative
Machala (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 03 15 31 S
degrees minutes
Lat: -3.2580
decimal degrees
Long: 079 57 38 W
degrees minutes
Long: -79.9600
decimal degrees
Note:
Situated in Pacific coastal lowlands; is trade center for bananas, cacao, coffee, and hides; there is little industrial development; a banana fair takes place each fall.
Names:
Machala
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
South America
(continent) (
P
)
........
Ecuador
(nation) (
P
)
............
El Oro
(province) (
P
)
................
Machala
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
city (
C
)
provincial capital (
C
)
commercial center (
C
)
educational center (
C
)
............
technical university established 1969
Sources and Contributors:
Machala..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VII, 627
.................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-)
accesed 16 January 2014
.................
Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994)
116
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VII, 627
..................
NGA, GEOnet Names Server (2008-)
accessed 16 January 2014
..................
Times Atlas of the World. Reprint ed. (1994)
116
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
..........
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
The J. Paul Getty Trust
© 2004 J. Paul Getty Trust
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