Distrito francisco de orellana biography

Spanish explorer and conquistador (1511–1546)

Francisco de Orellana (Spanish pronunciation:[fɾanˈθiskoðeoɾeˈʝana]; 1511 – November 1546) was a Spanish explorer and conquistador.

In one of the most improbably successful voyages in known history, Orellana managed to sail the length of the Amazon, arriving at the river's mouth on 24 August 1542. He and his party sailed along the Atlantic coast until reaching Cubagua Island, near the coast of Venezuela.

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The first Iberian journeys down the Amazon River, from the.

Captain Francisco de Orellana at the ask of his cousin Francisco Pizarro looked for a unused settlement for the city and moved it to Daule, hence Santiago de.

Orellana founded the city of Guayaquil in what is now Ecuador, and died during a second expedition on the Amazon.

Background

Born in Trujillo in western Spain (various birth dates, ranging from 1490 to 1511, are still quoted by biographers), Orellana was a close friend and possibly a relative of Francisco Pizarro, the Trujillo-born conquistador of Peru (his cousin, according to some historians).

He traveled to the New World (probably in 1527). Orellana served in Nicaragua until joining Pizarro