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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 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 ...
[8] To counterbalance the offense of hunting, a shaman demonstrated respect through the ritual preparation of the poison, curare, used in blow darts. Hunting with such darts is not considered killing, but retrieving, essentially a kind of harvesting from the trees. [9] [page needed] Huaorani men and women in Orellana Province
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.
[2] [10] Historically, the institution of the foral system was a way to divide the territory and to establish local administrative control (and not regional or hierarchical continuity). [2] [15] Similarly the parish, instituted by the religious orders that dominated the country, controlled local ecclesiastical power at the local level.
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 .