Orqueta (Spanish: Horqueta) is a settlement located in the north center of Lafonia, on East Falkland, Falkland Islands, on the Orqueta Creek and west of Bodie Creek.[1][2][3] The name in Falkland Islands English of Orqueta goes back to the gauchos rioplatenses that inhabited the area around the middle of the nineteenth century and refers to the Paspalum notatum.[4][5]
Orqueta | |
|---|---|
  Orqueta Stanley within the Falkland Islands  Orqueta Orqueta (South America) | |
| Coordinates: 51°52′00″S 59°13′00″W / 51.86667°S 59.21667°W | |
| British Overseas Territory |  Falkland Islands |
| Time zone | UTC−3 (FKST[a]) |
References edit
- ^ Strange, Ian (1983) The Falkland Islands
- ^ Datos en mapcarta
- ^ "Carta H-411, Isla Soledad (esc. 1:200.000 - 76 cm x 110 cm)" (Mapa con toponimia en castellano). Depositado por la Argentina en la Organización de las Naciones Unidas. Buenos Aires: Servicio de Hidrografía Naval. 1969.
- ^ Spruce, Joan. Corrals and Gauchos: Some of the people and places involved in the cattle industry. Falklands Conservation Publication. Bangor: Peregrine Publishing, 1992. 48 pp.
- ^ Gionco, Daniel Guillermo (2007). "Equivalencia entre los nombres geográficos en castellano y en inglés". Retrieved 26 January 2014.
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