Francisco de Orellana, yet another lieutenant of Francisco Pizarro from the Spanish city of Trujillo, put down the native rebellion and in 1537 reestablished this city, which a century later would become one of Spain's principal ports in South America.

* 1538 – The city of Guayaquil is founded by the Spanish Conquistador Francisco de Orellana and given the name Muy Noble y Muy Leal Ciudad de Santiago de Guayaquil.

The first European to travel the length of the Amazon River was Francisco de Orellana in 1542.

The BBC documentary Unnatural Histories presents evidence that Francisco de Orellana, rather than exaggerating his claims as previously thought, was correct in his observations that an advanced civilization was flourishing along the Amazon in the 1540s.

Francisco de Orellana ( 1511, Trujillo, Spain-November 1546, Amazon River ) was a Spanish explorer and conquistador.

Orellana served in Nicaragua until joining Pizarro's army in Peru in 1533, where he supported Pizarro in his conflict with Diego de Almagro ( 1538 ).

Orellana ( with the Dominican Gaspar de Carvajal who chronicled the expedition ) and 50 men set off down stream to find food.

), the Pueblo Vicioso, the Rio Negro ( named by Orellana ), the Pueblo del Corpus, the Pueblo de los Quemados and the Pueblo de la Calle in about 57 ° W.

When Orellana went down the river in search of gold, descending from the Andes ( in 1541 ), the river was still called Rio Grande, Mar Dulce or Rio de Canela ( Cinnamon ), because of the great trees of cinnamon located there.

* Puerto Francisco de Orellana, Ecuador

* Francisco de Orellana, Maynas, Loreto, Peru

Gaspar de Carvajal, the chaplain of the first expedition, wrote a chronicle of the voyage ( Relación del nuevo descubrimiento del famoso río Grande que descubrió por muy gran ventura el capitán Francisco de Orellana ), which was partly reproduced in Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo's Historia general y natural de las Indias ( 1542 ), who included in addition statements by Orellana and some of his men.

* " Francisco de Orellana: descubriendo el gran río ", article in viajeros. com ´

* " Natal home of Francisco de Orellana.

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Orellana was one of Gonzalo Pizarro's lieutenants during his 1541 expedition east of Quito into the South American interior.

However, a zoo in Mexico has kept this species since 1992, and in 2004 breeding in captivity was announced ( Orellana, 2004 ).

* Francisco de Orellana ( 1511 – 1546 ) – Spanish explorer, in 1541 – 42 sailed the length of the Amazon River.

Francisco de Orellana and his men became the first to travel the entire length of the Amazon River in 1541 – 1542

* Francisco de Orellana ( Amazon River, 1541 – 1543 )

* 1982 – 1983: Roy Reyes Orellana ( Partido Liberal )

* 1994 – 1997: Marlon Guillermo Lara Orellana ( Partido Liberal )

* 1998 – 2001: Marlon Guillermo Lara Orellana ( Partido Liberal ) ( Reelected )

* 2002 – 2005: Marlon Guillermo Lara Orellana ( Partido Liberal ) ) Reelected )

* José María Orellana Pinto ( 1872 – 1926 ), President of Guatemala ( 1921 – 1926 )

José María Orellana Pinto ( July 11, 1872 – September 26, 1926 ) was a Guatemalan politician, President of Guatemala from December 10, 1921 to September 26, 1926.

Born at Trujillo ( various birth dates, ranging from 1490 to 1511, are still quoted by biographers ), Orellana was a close friend, and possibly a relative of the Pizarro family.

In Quito, Gonzalo Pizarro collected a force of 220 Spaniards and 4000 natives, while Orellana, as second in command, was sent back to Guayaquil to raise a troop of horse.

Pizarro left Quito ( in February 1541 ) just before Orellana arrived with his 23 men and horses.

Orellana hurried after the main expedition, eventually making contact with them in March.

Unable to return against the current, Orellana waited for Pizarro, finally sending back three men with a message, and started construction of a second brigantine, the Victoria.

After leaving the village on the Napo, Orellana continued downstream to the Amazon.

In a longitude of about 69 ° W Orellana and his men were involved in a skirmish with Machiparo's natives and were chased downstream.

A skirmish with these warrior women allegedly occurred on 24 June 1542 while Orellana was approaching the Trombetus River, in the neighborhood of the Ilha Tupinambarama at the junction with the River Madeira.

The Victoria, carrying Orellana and Carvajal, passed south around Trinidad and was trapped in the Gulf of Paria for seven days, finally reaching Cubagua on 11 September 1542.

From Cubagua Orellana decided to return to Spain to obtain from the Crown the governorship over the discovered lands, which he named New Andalusia.

Orellana refused the Portuguese offer and went to Valladolid.

After captivating the Spanish court with tales and exaggerations of his voyage down the Amazon, Orellana, after nine months deliberation, obtained a commission to conquer the regions he had discovered.

On 11 May 1545 Orellana ( in hiding on one of his vessels ) surreptitiously sailed out of Sanlucar with four ships and disappeared from view.

Orellana arrived off the Brazilian coast shortly before Christmas 1545 and proceeded 100 leagues into the Amazon delta.

The marooned men found refuge among friendly Indians on an island in the delta, while Orellana and a boat party set off to find food and locate the principal arm of the Amazon.

On returning to the shipwreck camp they found it deserted, the men having constructed a second boat in which they had set out to find Orellana.

Orellana and his boat crew, who had set out again to locate the principal channel, were subsequently attacked by Indians.