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Orqueta
Orqueta is located in Falkland Islands
Orqueta
Orqueta
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Orqueta is located in South America
Orqueta
Orqueta
Location in South America
British Overseas Territory  Falkland Islands
Time zone UTC−3 (FKST)

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. 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.

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