Everything about Francisco De Orellana totally explained
Francisco de Orellana (
Trujillo,
Spain,
1511 -
Amazon River,
1546) was a
Spanish explorer and
conquistador. He completed the first known navigation through the length of the
Amazon River.He was one of
Gonzalo Pizarro's lieutenants during his
1541 expedition east of
Quito into the
South American interior in search of
El Dorado and the Country of the
Cinnamon.
Background
He may have been a relative of
Francisco Pizarro, the Trujillo-born
conquistador of
Peru (
cousin, according to some historians). He traveled to the Indies when he was seventeen (
1527). He served in
Nicaragua until joining Pizarro's army in Peru in
1533. He supported Pizarro in his conflict with
Diego de Almagro (
1538). After the victory over Almagro's men, he was appointed governor of La Culata and re-established the town of
Guayaquil, which had been previously destroyed twice by the Indians.
Explorations
Gonzalo Pizarro ordered him to explore the
Coca River and return when the river ended. When they arrived to the confluence to the
Napo River, his men menaced to mutiny if they didn't continue. On
December 26,
1541, he accepted to be elected chief of the new expedition and to conquest new lands in name of the king. The 49 men began to build a bigger ship for riverine navigation. During their navigation on Napo River they were threaded constantly by the
Omaguas. They reached
Negro River on
June 3,
1592 and finally arrived to the
Amazon River, that was so named because they were attacked by fierce female warriors like the mythological
Amazons, although it's possible that he actually fought long haired male warriors. 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.
Orellana died trying a second trip up from the mouth of the Amazon.
Places named after Orellana
The present-day
Ecuadorian province of
Orellana was named after him.
Orellana in popular culture
Orellana's role in the search for El Dorado forms part of the plot of the film
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
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