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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 Cimanes del Tejar () is a municipality located in the province of León, Castile and León, Spain. According to the 2010 census (INE INE, Ine or ine may refer to: Institutions * Institut für Nukleare Entsorgung, a German nuclear research cent ...

Ribera del Órbigo Ribera is a Spanish word that translates into "the basin of a river", and may refer to: Locations * Ribera, Agrigento, a ''comune'' in the province of Agrigento, Sicily, Italy * Ribera, Costa Rica, a former port on Aranjuez River * Ribera Alta, � ...

, León,

Castile and León Castile and León ( es, Castilla y León ; ast-leo, Castiella y Llión ; gl, Castela e León ) is an autonomous community in northwestern Spain. It was created in 1983, eight years after the end of the Francoist regime, by the merging of the ...

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, Zamora,

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. It begins at the convergence of the

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and the Omaña River in the town of Secarejo, in the

municipality. Decades ago, that confluence was some km. before, in the town of

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. 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 tribut ...

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

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"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 *

*Special tributary:

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, 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 Suero de Quiñones (c. 1409 – 11 July 1456), called ("he of the pass"), was a knight and author born in the Kingdom of León (then part of the Crown of Castile). He gained fame by staging a ''pas d'armes'' at the river Órbigo. Suero was th ...

and ten of his knights challenged all comers to a

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, 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 Hospital de Órbigo () is a municipality located in the province of León, Castile and León, Spain. According to the 2010 census (INE), the municipality had a population of 1,031 inhabitants. It is a stopping point along the Camino de Santiago ...

, 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

Gallery

See also

References