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Manuscript map of Francisco de Orellana's expedition of 1539 to 1542, attributed to António Pereira, a Portuguese seaman. The name 'Amazon' is said to arise from a battle Francisco de Orellana fought with a tribe of Tapuyas. The women of the tribe fought alongside the men, as was the custom among the tribe. [1]
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1562 map of the Amazon River region. The history of Manaus, with over 350 years of existence, coincides with the history of Brazil.The process of European occupation began in the middle of the 16th century, when explorer Francisco de Orellana arrived from Peru and intended to go to Spain.
The city is named for Francisco de Orellana, who explored the confluence of the Coca River and the Napo River. It is believed that he set sail from the current location of the town eventually making his way into the Amazon River seeing the "Amazon" or tribes in which the women also fought. Eventually Francisco de Orellana made it to the Atlantic.
Map of the Amazon Basin with the Napo River highlighted. Location; ... Puerto Francisco de Orellana: 782 243 12,343 1,016 1,105 Puerto Napo 950 427 4,182.4 260.9
The first European to travel the entire length of the Amazon river was the Spaniard Francisco de Orellana, between 1539 and 1541, from the Andes to the Atlantic Ocean. At the time, the story spread that the mythical city of El Dorado would be located somewhere between the Amazon and the Guianas. [8] [6]
Francisco de Orellana and his men became the first Europeans to travel the entire length of the Amazon River in 1541–1542. Dávila sent Gil González Dávila to explore northward, and Pedro de Alvarado to explore Guatemala. In 1524 he sent another expedition with Francisco Hernández de Córdoba, executed there in 1526 by Dávila, by then ...
In 1542, when Francisco de Orellana reached the mouth of the Amazon, he was pushed by winds and currents northwest along the Guiana coast until he reached a Spanish settlement west of Trinidad. Walter Raleigh began the exploration of the Guianas in earnest in 1594. He was in search of a great golden city at the headwaters of the Caroní River.