orinoco in English

noun
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a river in northern South America that rises in southeastern Venezuela and flows 1,280 miles (2,060 km), entering the Atlantic Ocean through a vast delta. For part of its length it forms the border between Colombia and Venezuela.

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1. Orinoco Crocodiles, native to South America's Orinoco River, are freshwater Crocodiles

2. Anacondas are especially numerous near Amazon and Orinoco rivers

3. Orinoco Delta travel guide by adena is this text outdated?

4. Angostura definition: a port in E Venezuela , on the Orinoco River: accessible to ocean-going vessels

5. The new (not yet released) version has a customized 5 kernel with better WiFi support (Orinoco patches).

6. Currently wireless access points, such as "Proxim Orinoco AP-2000", "Cisco Aironet 1100" and "Lancom L-54ag" are supported.

7. The freshwater Angelfishes (Pterophyllum) are South American cichlids that originate from the Guyana, and the Orinoco and Amazon River basins

8. The Arawak are an indigenous people that are believed to have originated in the basin of the Orinoco River, in Venezuela

9. Anacondas live in swamps, marshes, and slow-moving streams, mainly in the tropical rain forests of the Amazon and Orinoco basins

10. Angelfish can be found in nearly all of the major rivers in South America, including the Essequibo, Orinoco and Amazon

11. The Arawaks were though to have first settled on the borderland between Bolivia, Peru and the forests between the Amazon and Orinoco Rivers

12. The Nile Crocodile, mostly found in Africa, is abundant across the continent but other species such as the Philippine and Orinoco Crocodiles are listed as critically endangered.

13. For some of the Amerinds of the Amazon-Orinoco forests, for example, the contenders are two brothers representing the sun and the moon, one a benevolent creator, the other a trickster

14. Plains alluvia A significant area of the South American continent (as much as one-third) is occupied by the vast flatlands extending from the llanos in the Orinoco delta ‘to the lower pampas south of Buenos Aires.

15. Arawakan Languages one of the largest families of Indian languages, widespread in the northern part of South America (in the Orinoco, Rio Negro, and Amazon river basins), on the islands of the West Indies, and in southern Florida

16. To the east, the Andes range is bounded by several sedimentary basins, such as Orinoco, Amazon Basin, Madre de Dios and Gran Chaco, that separate the Andes from the ancient cratons in eastern South America.

17. These nomadic hunter-gatherers were followed by waves of Arawaks (a collective term for the Amerindian people believed to be from the Orinoco River Delta around Venezuela and Guyana) who moved north and west, beginning the great tradition

18. At the opening session, held at the Orinoco River port of Angostura (today Ciudad Bolívar), on 15 February 1819, Bolívar delivered a major address in which he warned against imitation of Anglo-American institutions and called for a new

19. Angostura is Spanish for 'narrowing', the town of Angostura having been at the first narrowing of the Orinoco River. Beverages named "Angostura Bitter" or "Angobitter" are also offered from other brands (e.g., Riemerschmid, Hemmeter).

20. ‘Many Arawakan languages are now extinct, but a few survive in the former heartland region of the Amazon-Orinoco.’ ‘Columbus had called the Northern Islanders, Taíno, from the Arawakan word for ‘friendly people’ as contrasted by the hostile Carib.’

21. Similar alluvial deposits, although devoid of silica and carbonates, occur near the Orinoco flood plains, where sandy (mainly quartzic) accumulations have resulted from both sediment transport by the main river and lateral supply provided by the tributaries descending from the Guyana shield and the mountain regions of the north and west.