Rio Napo
"Francisco de Orellana (cousin to explorer Gonzalo Pizarro) floated down the Rio Napo to its confluence with the Amazon, near Iquitos (Peru), and then to the mouth of the Amazon. Along the way his expedition suffered numerous attacks by Indians; some of the Indian warriors, they reported, were female, like the Amazons of Greek mythology, and thus the world's greatest river got its name." (Lonely Planet guide to Brazil, p.602)
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