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]
^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.
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...
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...
Linga Lavery & Snazell, 2013 and the synonymy of the type species Linga orqueta Lavery & Snazell, 2013 (Araneae: Linyphiidae)". Arachnology. 18 (3): 248–249...
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The Pacific bumper (Chloroscombrus orqueta) is one of two game fish in the genus Chloroscombrus, from the subfamily Caranginae of the family Carangidae...
medium-sized fishes, growing to maximum known lengths of around 30 cm (C. orqueta) and 65 cm (C. chrysurus). The genus is easily distinguished among most...
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Type species Anthias ciliaris J. R. Forster, 1801 Synonyms Evistius T. N. Gill, 1893 Melbanella Whitley, 1937 Micropus Kner, 1868 Orqueta Jordan, 1919...
Creek (Spanish: Ría Bodie), also called Bodie Inlet, is the estuary of Orqueta Creek and other small streams (such as the Findlay estuary) into Choiseul...
the eastern Pacific although a visually similar species, Chloroscombrus orqueta, or the Pacific bumper is ranged for that area. Little is known about how...
Description of two new species of fishes (Myrophis vafer and Chloroscombrus orqueta) from Panama. Proceedings of the United States National Museum v. 5 (no...
three other Carangids from the Eastern Tropical Pacific: Chloroscombrus orqueta, Caranx caballus, and Caranx sexfasciatus" (PDF). CalCOFI Report. XXVI:...
three other Carangids from the Eastern Tropical Pacific: Chloroscombrus orqueta, Caranx caballus, and Caranx sexfasciatus" (PDF). CalCOFI Report. XXVI:...
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