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Orellana (cicada)
Orellana may refer to: Places * Orellana de la Sierra * Orellana Province * Orellana la Vieja * Orellana, Peru People *Dori Parra de Orellana (1923–2007), Venezuelan politician * Fabián Orellana (born 1986), Chilean footballer * Francisco de Orellana (1511–1546), Spanish explorer *Ignatius de Orellana (1860–1931), British violinist and conductor * María José Orellana (born 1981), Guatemalan beach volleyball player *Nicolás Orellana (born 1995), Chilean footballer *Rosa Orellana, Mexican American mathematician Other * ''Orellana'' (cicada), a genus of cicadas in the tribe Zammarini The Zammarini is a tribe of cicadas. They are native to the Americas, especially the Neotropics The Neotropical realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms constituting Earth's land surface. Physically, it includes the tropics, tropical ... {{surname, Orellana Spanish-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orellana De La Sierra
Orellana de la Sierra is a municipality in the province of Badajoz, Extremadura, Spain , image_flag = Bandera de España.svg , image_coat = Escudo de España (mazonado).svg , national_motto = ''Plus ultra'' (Latin)(English: "Further Beyond") , national_anthem = (English: "Royal March") , i .... It has a population of 243 and an area of 16.7 km2. References Municipalities in the Province of Badajoz {{Badajoz-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orellana Province
Orellana () is an inland province of Ecuador. The capital is Puerto Francisco de Orellana (also known as Coca). It was created on July 30, 1998, from part of Napo Province. The name of the province derives from the explorer Francisco de Orellana who it is told to have sailed from somewhere near the town to the Atlantic Ocean. He did this trip several times looking for the gold city of El Dorado and in search of a rumored Nutmeg forest which at the time was a very expensive spice. During his voyages he met a ferocious tribe of Indians who attacked his ships and many among them were women. This led to the naming of the river as the Amazon river. The province is divided in four cantons. Cantons The province is divided into four cantons. The following table lists each with its population at the 2001 census, its area in square kilometres (km²), and the name of the canton seat or capital. Demographics Ethnic groups as of the Ecuadorian census of 2010: * Mestizo 57.5% *In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orellana La Vieja
Orellana la Vieja is a municipality located in the province of Badajoz, Extremadura Extremadura (; ext, Estremaúra; pt, Estremadura; Fala: ''Extremaúra'') is an autonomous community of Spain. Its capital city is Mérida, and its largest city is Badajoz. Located in the central-western part of the Iberian Peninsula, it ..., Spain. According to the 2005 census (Instituto Nacional de Estadística (Spain), INE), the municipality has a population of 3033 inhabitants. References Municipalities in the Province of Badajoz {{Badajoz-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orellana, Peru
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Dori Parra De Orellana
Elena Dorila Parra Pinellaux ( Barquisimeto, Venezuela, July 25, 1923 - Barquisimeto, March 21, 2007), better known as Dori Parra de Orellana, was a Venezuelan politician. She was elected as a deputy to the Congress of Venezuela for the Democratic Action party in 1947. After the 1948 coup in Venezuela, Parra joined the fight against the military junta and the Marcos Pérez Jiménez dictatorship, during which she was imprisoned and tortured. With the arrival of democracy in the country, she was elected as a senator for the state of Lara and served as state governor, being the first Venezuelan woman to be a senator and state governor. Biography Elena Dorila (nickname, "Dori") Parra Pinellaux was the daughter of Miguel Parra and Dorila Pinellaux González, who in turn was the daughter of the French immigrant Nicholas Pinellaux, a marriage that had nine children. The family lived in a large house on the outskirts of Barquisimeto. In 1932, her mother died at the age of 49, when Parra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fabián Orellana
Fabián Ariel Orellana Valenzuela (; born 27 January 1986) is a Chilean professional Association football, footballer who plays as a winger (association football), winger for Club Deportivo Universidad Católica and the Chile national football team, Chilean national team. After starting out at Audax Italiano, he went on to spend most of his professional career in Spain, where he represented Xerez CD, Xerez, Granada CF, Granada, RC Celta de Vigo, Celta, Valencia CF, Valencia, SD Eibar, Eibar and Real Valladolid, Valladolid. Over ten seasons, he amassed La Liga totals of 288 games and 42 goals with all the clubs. A Chile national football team, Chilean international since 2008, Orellana appeared in two FIFA World Cup, World Cups and the Copa América Centenario, winning the latter tournament. Club career Born in Santiago, Orellana began his career in Colo-Colo and then moved to Audax Italiano. He made his Chilean Primera División, Primera División debut at only 18, and scored 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francisco De Orellana
Francisco de Orellana Bejarano Pizarro y Torres de Altamirano (; 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. Orellana founded the city of Guayaquil in what is now Ecuador, and died during a second expedition on the Amazon. Background Born in Trujillo (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's army in Peru in 1533, where he supported Pizarro in his conflict with Diego de Almagro (1538). After ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ignatius De Orellana
Ignatius Antonio de Orellana (October 14, 1860 – March 19, 1931) was a British violinist and composer. He became a conductor of theatre orchestras and an arranger of music for the theatre. Life Orellana was born in St Helier in Jersey, where his grandfather Ignacio de Orellana, originally from Spain, had settled by 1841. He studied the violin in London. Early compositions He composed a string quartet and a string trio, which were published in 1888.Scores, with information about the composer, from Merton Music.Merton Music catalogue Accessed February 2014. In the same year his ''Six Melodic Studies for Pianoforte'' were published; a reviewer in ''The Musical World'' commented that they "are an attempt to combine tuneful interest with the pursuit of various technical objects, and in this the composer has been in great measure successful." In 1890 his ''Twenty-four Melodic Studies for Pianoforte'' were published; a reviewer in ''The Musical World'' commented, "The term 'melodic' i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
María José Orellana
María José Orellana Aragon (born April 8, 1981) is a female beach volleyball player from Guatemala, who played in the 2003 and 2007 Pan American Games playing with Sylvana Gómez and Anna Ramírez, finishing 5th and 9th. Representing her native country during the 2006 Central American and Caribbean Games playing with Anna Ramírez, they finished in the 7th. position. She has participated in many tournaments at the NORCECA Beach Volleyball Circuit. She won the National Championship 2009, playing with Anna Ramírez. She played Indoor Volleyball Indoor(s) may refer to: *the interior of a building *Indoor environment, in building science, traditionally includes the study of indoor thermal environment, indoor acoustic environment, indoor light environment, and indoor air quality *Built envi ... with her National Team at the 2006 World Championship qualifier. She acted as team captain, and finished 4th, not qualifying to the main event. References * * World Championship ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicolás Orellana
Nicolás Iván Orellana Acuña (born 3 September 1995) is a Chilean footballer who currently plays for Audax Italiano as a striker. Honours ;Colo-Colo * Primera división de Chile (2): 2014, 2017 File:2017 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: The War Against ISIS at the Battle of Mosul (2016-2017); aftermath of the Manchester Arena bombing; The Solar eclipse of August 21, 2017 ("Great American Eclipse"); North Korea tests a ser ... *Supercopa de Chile: 2018 References External links * Orellana at Football-Lineups 1995 births Living people Footballers from Santiago Chilean men's footballers Chile men's under-20 international footballers Men's association football forwards Segunda División Profesional de Chile players Chilean Primera División players Colo-Colo B footballers Colo-Colo footballers San Marcos de Arica footballers Everton de Viña del Mar footballers C.D. Universidad de Concepción footballers Audax Italiano footballers Unión La ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosa Orellana
Rosa C. Orellana is an American mathematician specializing in algebraic combinatorics and representation theory. She is a professor of mathematics at Dartmouth College. Early life and education Orellana's excitement for mathematics was recognized early, by one of her elementary school teachers. She is a graduate of California State University, Los Angeles, and was the first in her family to earn a college degree. Her undergraduate education also included summer research with Kenneth Millett at the University of California, Santa Barbara on knot theory and its applications to biomolecules. She completed her Ph.D. in 1999 at the University of California, San Diego. Originally intending to continue her study of knot theory, she shifted to algebraic combinatorics after the knot theorist she planned to work with went on leave. Her dissertation, ''The Hecke Algebra of Type B at Roots of Unity, Markov Traces and Subfactors'', was supervised by Hans Wenzl. Career After completing her do ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orellana (cicada)
Orellana may refer to: Places * Orellana de la Sierra * Orellana Province * Orellana la Vieja * Orellana, Peru People *Dori Parra de Orellana (1923–2007), Venezuelan politician * Fabián Orellana (born 1986), Chilean footballer * Francisco de Orellana (1511–1546), Spanish explorer *Ignatius de Orellana (1860–1931), British violinist and conductor * María José Orellana (born 1981), Guatemalan beach volleyball player *Nicolás Orellana (born 1995), Chilean footballer *Rosa Orellana, Mexican American mathematician Other * ''Orellana'' (cicada), a genus of cicadas in the tribe Zammarini The Zammarini is a tribe of cicadas. They are native to the Americas, especially the Neotropics The Neotropical realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms constituting Earth's land surface. Physically, it includes the tropics, tropical ... {{surname, Orellana Spanish-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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