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Ecuador Amazon, Orellana - Ministry of Tourism - Ecuador (183 words) |
 | Orellana, Ecuador’s newest province, whose capital is Francisco de Orellana, has only existed since 1999 and has four cantons. |
| Orellana is rich in oil and wood reserves and has beautiful scenery and a wealth of flora and fauna. |
| Orellana has large, wide rivers, dense tropical rain forests, enormous natural reserves, and a high concentration of indigenous communities. |
| Francisco Orellana (1143 words) |
| According to Carvajal, the chronicler of the expedition, the natives were commanded by warlike women of imposing aspect, and he was told that the country belonged to women, who lived alone in communities. |
| Orellana was certainly the first European to navigate the Amazon for the greater part of its course. |
| A relation of Orellana's first voyage, by Friar Gaspar de Carvajal, was presented by the former to the king in 1542, and is to be shortly published in Madrid. |
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