Orqueta Creek

Orqueta Creek is a stream in the center of the East Falkland in the Falkland Islands, more precisely north of Lafonia and south of Goose Green, which flows eastward and flows into Bodie Creek. Throughout its stream, it crosses the settlement of Orqueta.[1][2][3] The toponym of Horqueta in Falkland Islands English goes back to the gauchos Rioplantenses who inhabited the area towards mid of 19th century and refers to the Paspalum notatum.[4][5]

References
  1. Strange, Ian (1983) The Falkland Islands
  2. "BASE DE DATOS DE NOMBRES GEOGRÁFICOS DE LAS ISLAS MALVINAS"
  3. "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.
  4. 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.
  5. Gionco, Daniel Guillermo (2007). "Equivalencia entre los nombres geográficos en castellano y en inglés". Retrieved 26 January 2014.


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