He was only the third European to make the entire 5,000 kilometer river journey; the first two being explorer Francisco de Orellana (1542) and geographer Charles Marie de La Condamine (1744).
The name of the province derives from the explorer Francisco de Orellana who it is told to have sailed from somewhere near the town to the Atlantic Ocean.
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In 1541, Gonzalo Pizarro led an expedition east of Quito with Francisco de Orellana in search of The country of cinnamon ("País de la Canela").