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The capital is Puerto Francisco de Orellana (also known as Coca). It was created on July 30, 1998, from part of Napo Province. The name of the province derives from the explorer Francisco de Orellana who it is told to have sailed from somewhere near the town to the Atlantic Ocean. He did this trip several times looking for the gold city of El ...
Geography of Orellana Province (2 C, 4 P) P. People from Orellana Province (1 C, 3 P) T. Tourist attractions in Orellana Province (2 P) Pages in category "Orellana ...
Francisco de Orellana Canton is a canton of Ecuador, located in the Orellana Province. Its capital is the town of Puerto Francisco de Orellana. Its population at the ...
Orellana Province: Time zone: UTC-5 : Loreto Canton is a canton of Ecuador, located in the Orellana Province. ... This page was last edited on 8 June 2022, ...
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.
This is the list of the municipalities of Portugal under the NUTS 2 and NUTS 3 format. The NUTS 3 regions were revised in 2015; since then, the subregions (NUTS 3) coincide with the intermunicipal communities. [1] The current and the former compositions of the NUTS regions are given below, in the following format: NUTS 2 region [number of ...
The first provinces, instituted during the Roman occupation of the Iberian peninsula, divided the peninsula into three areas: Tarraconensis, Lusitania and Baetica, established by Roman Emperor Augustus between 27 and 13 B.C. [1] Emperor Diocletian reordered these territories in the third century, dividing Tarraconesis into three separate territories: Tarraconensis, Carthaginensis and Gallaecia.
[8] The beginning of the Portuguese occupation of the territory where the city later emerged is traced to the arrival of the Carmelite missionaries in 1659. [9] Manaus was founded in 1669 as a fortification to establish the Portuguese presence and protect the entrance to the Western Amazon from foreign invasions, especially by the Dutch and ...