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Pongo de Manseriche, the Glossary

18 relations: Adelantado, Amazon basin, Amazonas (Peruvian department), Andes, Borja, Peru, Cajamarca, Canyon, Cusco, Department of Loreto, Juan de Salinas y Loyola, Loja, Ecuador, Maina people, Marañón River, Maynas Province, Peru, Melitón Carvajal, Peru, Quechuan languages, Water gap.
Canyons and gorges of Peru
Landforms of Amazonas Region
Water gaps

Adelantado

Adelantado (meaning "advanced") was a title held by some Spanish nobles in service of their respective kings during the Middle Ages.

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Amazon basin

The Amazon basin is the part of South America drained by the Amazon River and its tributaries.

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Amazonas (Peruvian department)

Amazonas is a department and region in northern Peru bordered by Ecuador on the north and west, Cajamarca on the west, La Libertad on the south, and Loreto and San Martín on the east.

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Andes

The Andes, Andes Mountains or Andean Mountain Range are the longest continental mountain range in the world, forming a continuous highland along the western edge of South America.

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Borja, Peru

Borja is a settlement in the Datem del Marañón Province of the Loreto Region of Peru.

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Cajamarca

Cajamarca, also known by the Quechua name, Kashamarka, is the capital and largest city of the Cajamarca Region as well as an important cultural and commercial center in the northern Andes.

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A canyon (from; archaic British English spelling: cañon), gorge or chasm, is a deep cleft between escarpments or cliffs resulting from weathering and the erosive activity of a river over geologic time scales.

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Cusco

Cusco or Cuzco (Qusqu or Qosqo) is a city in southeastern Peru near the Sacred Valley of the Andes mountain range and the Huatanay river.

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Department of Loreto

Loreto is Peru's northernmost department and region.

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Juan de Salinas y Loyola

Juan de Salinas y Loyola (1492–19 January 1582) was a Spanish discoverer, conqueror and hidalgo belonging to the Alava branch of the of Azpeitia.

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Loja, Ecuador

Loja, formerly Loxa and fully City of the Immaculate Conception of Loja (Ciudad de la Inmaculada Concepción de Loja), is the capital of Ecuador's Loja Province.

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Maina people

The Maina or Meena are a group of indigenous peoples living along the north bank of the Marañón River in South America.

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Marañón River

The Marañón River (Río Marañón) is the principal or mainstem source of the Amazon River, arising about 160 km to the northeast of Lima, Peru, and flowing northwest across plateaus 3,650 m (12,000 feet) high, it runs through a deeply eroded Andean valley, along the eastern base of the Cordillera of the Andes, as far as 5° 36′ southern latitude; from where it makes a great bend to the northeast, and cuts through the jungle Ande in its midcourse, until at the Pongo de Manseriche it flows into the flat Amazon basin.

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Maynas Province, Peru

Maynas is one of the eight provinces in the Loreto Region in northeastern Peru.

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Melitón Carvajal

Manuel Melitón Carvajal Ambulodegui (March 10, 1847 in Lima – September 19, 1935 in Lima), was a Peruvian naval commander and government official who was part of the crew of the ironclad Huáscar during the War of the Pacific.

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Peru

Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America. It is bordered in the north by Ecuador and Colombia, in the east by Brazil, in the southeast by Bolivia, in the south by Chile, and in the south and west by the Pacific Ocean. Peru is a megadiverse country with habitats ranging from the arid plains of the Pacific coastal region in the west to the peaks of the Andes mountains extending from the north to the southeast of the country to the tropical Amazon basin rainforest in the east with the Amazon River.

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Quechuan languages

Quechua, also called Runasimi ('people's language') in Southern Quechua, is an indigenous language family that originated in central Peru and thereafter spread to other countries of the Andes.

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Water gap

A water gap is a gap that flowing water has carved through a mountain range or mountain ridge and that still carries water today. Pongo de Manseriche and water gap are water gaps.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pongo_de_Manseriche