The Orthon River is a river in the
Pando Department
Pando is a Department (country subdivision), department in Northern Bolivia, with an area of , in the Amazon Rainforest, adjoining the border with Brazil and Peru, Perú. Pando has a population of 130,761 (2024 census). Its capital is the city o ...
of
Bolivia
Bolivia, officially the Plurinational State of Bolivia, is a landlocked country located in central South America. The country features diverse geography, including vast Amazonian plains, tropical lowlands, mountains, the Gran Chaco Province, w ...
and a tributary of river
Beni. The river is named after explorer
James Orton, who travelled the tributary around the 1870s. A territorial claim for
Antonio de Vaca Diez was carved into a tree during a later expedition by
Edwin Heath. Vaca Díez was an entrepreneur in the rubber industry who would later dominate the trade on the Orthon river. Like other rubber barons, Antonio used the exploited local indigenous population as his workforce. Díez became a business partner of
Carlos Fermín Fitzcarrald sometime in the early 1890s. On February 1, 1897
The Orton Rubber Co. Ltd. was registered in London by Vaca Díez. After the death of Antonio and Fitzcarrald in a river accident on the
Urubamba in July 1897: rubber baron Nícolas Suárez absorbed the territory into his estate.
See also
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List of rivers of Bolivia
This is a list of rivers in Bolivia.
By drainage basin
This list is arranged by drainage basin, with respective tributaries indented under each larger stream's name. Rivers longer than are in bold.
Rivers that reach the ocean Amazon Basin
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References
*Rand McNally, The New International Atlas, 1993.
Rivers of Pando Department
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