In 1541 Francisco de Orellana took a trip up this river he named for the bow & arrow-wielding women seen on it
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Francisco de Orellana's Amazon River Expedition: In 1542, conquistador 
Francisco de... [DOC] [TLE] THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF LATIN AMERICA ... - ResearchGate [PAR] the History and Literature of Brazil, Universite de Paris III ..... is very marked in the 
river basins, such as the Panuco, Coatzacoalcos, ...... peoples of the bow and 
arrow'.