Orellana

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英文释义

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  1. The river Amazon. historical
    — But if we shall speake more of rivers, that great floud called by some the river of Amazons, by others Marañon, and by some the river of Orellana, which our Spaniards sailed in their discoveries, ought to blemish all the rest; and, in truth, I am in doubt whither I may tearme it a river or a sea.
  2. A surname.
  3. A province in Ecuador. Capital: Puerto Francisco de Orellana (or Coca).
  4. A town in Ucayali province, Loreto region, Peru.

词源

Named for Francisco de Orellana (1511–46), Spanish explorer, who was the first to explore it in the 1540s.
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