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Orqueta
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 Orqueta
Location in Falkland Islands
Orqueta
Location in South America
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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.
See also
In Spanish: Horqueta (islas Malvinas) para niños
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