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Casiquiare to the Orinoco River they hovered thru perilous rapids of the rivers Maipures and Atures. The Orinoco was then traversed down to its mouths in the...39 KB (2,718 words) - 19:02, 19 June 2024
Humboldt, who commented on the recent extinction of the Aturès Indians for whom the Atures Rapids had been named. The water in the Casiquiare flows from...16 KB (947 words) - 22:11, 13 March 2024
The Atures Municipality (Spanish: Municipio Atures) is one of the seven municipalities (municipios) that makes up the southern Venezuelan state of Amazonas...6 KB (313 words) - 06:41, 28 February 2024
encounter Spanish slavers. 1531 – Diego de Ordaz ascends the Orinoco to the Atures rapids, just past its confluence with the Meta. 1532–33 – Pizarro explores...108 KB (10,891 words) - 10:29, 19 April 2024- the Orinoco drainage, located above the Maipures Rapids and south of the Atures Rapids (near the Atures Municipality) in the Venezuelan state of Amazonas...2 KB (132 words) - 12:15, 23 December 2023
- the headwaters of the Orinoco. However, the expedition ended at the Atures Rapids, which they could not cross with their ships. After the death of Ordáz...5 KB (756 words) - 08:49, 17 March 2024
Orinoco beyond the mouth of the Meta River but was blocked by the rapids at Atures. After his return he died, possibly poisoned, on a voyage back to Spain...66 KB (8,405 words) - 21:06, 10 June 2024
- until it is broken by the romantic Maypures and Atures rapids, 870 miles from its mouth. These rapids are the only serious obstruction in the main stream