Oriente
Americannoun
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a region in Ecuador, E of the Andes: the border long disputed by Peru.
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a province in E Cuba. 14,132 sq. mi. (36,600 sq. km). Santiago de Cuba.
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The amber, dated to roughly 112 million years ago, belongs to the Hollín Formation, a sedimentary layer that stretches across Ecuador's Oriente Basin.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2025
Pablo Milanés was born Feb. 24, 1943, in the eastern city of Bayamo, in what was then Oriente province, the youngest of five siblings born to working-class parents.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 21, 2022
He was at a protest on 2 July against the plan to erect the statue in Madrid's Plaza Oriente, in front of the royal palace.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2021
For many years, thousands of people commemorated the anniversary of his 20 November 1975 death in Madrid's central Plaza de Oriente esplanade and at the Valley of the Fallen mausoleum.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 24, 2019
As sugar planters fled from the revolution in Haiti, some moved to Cuba’s Oriente Province, others to North America—to Louisiana.
From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson
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