Usage examples (37)

• When the barrel sank the currents drifted it northwards down what we call the Orinoco
• The most northern of the great cataracts of the Orinoco is the only one bounded on each side by lofty mountains.
• On the western bank of the Orinoco, which is low and flat, the Peak of Uniana rises abruptly more than 3000 feet high.
• To the south of the Orinoco is another thickly-wooded region, known as the Silvas; which, united to the woods of Guiana and those of