Amazonas

Orellana 2011 V Centenario

Amazon River

Cuando el explorador español Francisco de Orellana, en 1541 llegó a orillas del río más grande del mundo: El Amazonas.

Amazon River

Amazon River

15th Century Building. Natal Home of Francisco de Orellana. Discoverer of the Amazon River.

Governor and Captain General of New Andalusia. Captain of the first expedition to sail the length of the Amazon River. In one of the most improbably successful voyages in known history.

Within the walled medieval City of Trujillo, hard by the 13th century church of "Santa María La Mayor de La Asunción," stands the noble ancestral house in which was born the explorer and Discoverer of the Amazon, Francisco de Orellana. Watched over by its crenellated tower, this private historic hotel, with its arched entrance under the shield of the Orellanas, offers testimony of a city that for centuries lived the protagonism of its historical era.

Trujillo, "Cradle of Conquistadors". Birthplace of the conqueror of Peru, Francisco Pizarro, and of Francisco de Orellana, discoverer of the Amazon River. It is located between the rivers Tajo and Guadiana. A short distance from Cáceres, Guadalupe, Yuste, Plasencia, Mérida and Mofragüe National Park. Halfway down the Madrid-Lisbon freeway. Its magnificent Castle dominates the town and the surrounding plains.

Natal Home of Francisco de Orellana.