, name_etymology = , image = Union del Rio Omaña y Rio Luna.JPG , image_size = 250px , image_caption = The union of the rivers Luna and Omaña at this point form the Órbigo river , map = Órbigo.png , map_size = 280px , map_caption = , pushpin_map = , pushpin_map_size = , pushpin_map_caption= , subdivision_type1 = Country , subdivision_name1 =

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 ...

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Luna Luna commonly refers to: * Earth's Moon, named "Luna" in Latin * Luna (goddess), the ancient Roman personification of the Moon Luna may also refer to: Places Philippines * Luna, Apayao * Luna, Isabela * Luna, La Union * Luna, San Jose Roma ...

and Omaña , source1_location = Secarejo, Cimanes del Tejar, Ribera del Órbigo, León, Castile and León,

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Esla river The Esla is a river in the provinces of León and Zamora in the northwest of Spain. It is a tributary of the Duero River that starts in the Cantabrian Mountains and is long. Its direction of flow is from north to south. It is the largest tribu ...

, mouth_location = Santa Colomba de las Monjas, Benavente y Valles, Zamora, Castile and León,

, mouth_coordinates = , mouth_elevation = , progression = , river_system = , basin_size = , tributaries_left = , tributaries_right = Duerna, Tuerto, Jamuz and Eria , custom_label = , custom_data = , extra = The Órbigo River is a river in the provinces of León and Zamora,

. It begins at the convergence of the Luna River and the Omaña River in the town of Secarejo, in the Cimanes del Tejar municipality. Decades ago, that confluence was some km. before, in the town of Santiago del Molinillo. It flows from north to south through the province of León and ultimately flows into the

Esla River The Esla is a river in the provinces of León and Zamora in the northwest of Spain. It is a tributary of the Duero River that starts in the Cantabrian Mountains and is long. Its direction of flow is from north to south. It is the largest tribu ...

below Benavente. How the river came to have this name is not known. According to the linguist E. Bascuas, the toponym Órbigo, would come from a Paleo-European hydronymic theme *urw-, derived from the

Indo-European The Indo-European languages are a language family native to the overwhelming majority of Europe, the Iranian plateau, and the northern Indian subcontinent. Some European languages of this family, English, French, Portuguese, Russian, Dutc ...

root *er- 'flow, move', with a hydronymic meaning. The first mention is from

Hydatius Hydatius, also spelled Idacius (c. 400 – c. 469) was a late Western Roman writer and clergyman. The bishop of Aquae Flaviae in the Roman province of Gallaecia (almost certainly the modern Chaves, Portugal, in the modern district of Vila Real), ...

"Ad fluvium nomine Urbicum".Edelmiro Bascuas, '' Hidronimia y léxico de origen paleoeuropeo en Galicia'' (pág. 114) There exists a theory that the river now called the Luna should be the real start of the Órbigo. Although it was the same river, in the times of the Conde Luna, it was ordered to change that name of the river so that the part in the county would have its name.

Tributaries

* Duerna * Tuerto * Jamuz * Eria *Special tributary: Presa Cerrajera, which splits from the Órbigo and later flows into it again

Gallery

File:Orbigo Bridge.jpg, In 1433 on this spot—the bridge over the river Órbigo— Suero de Quiñones and ten of his knights challenged all comers to a

Pas d'Armes __NOTOC__ The () or passage of arms was a type of chivalric hastilude that evolved in the late 14th century and remained popular through the 15th century. It involved a knight or group of knights (' or "holders") who would stake out a traveled ...

, promising to "break 300 lances" before moving on. File:Puente del Paso Honroso en Hospital de Orbigo.jpg, Medieval bridge over the Órbigo River in Hospital de Órbigo, León. File:Rio Orbigo.JPG, Órbigo river watershed. File:Nacimiento del Rio Orbigo.JPG, Another view of the union of the Luna and Omaña rivers, forming the Órbigo.

References

Rivers of Spain Rivers of León, Spain Rivers of Castile and León Tributaries of the Esla {{Spain-river-stub

Tributaries

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See also

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