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A General History of Voyages and Travels to the End of the 18th Century. Vol. 7. Ulan Press. ASIN B00A8A44EU. Hakluyt, Richard (1598). The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. p. 570. John Knox Laughton: The taking of the Madre de Dios, incluido en The naval miscellany (1902), vol. II, page. 87.
Madre de Deus (Mother of God; also called Mãe de Deus and Madre de Dios, referring to Mary) was a Portuguese ocean-going carrack, renowned for her capacious cargo and provisions for long voyages. She was returning from her second voyage East under Captain Fernão de Mendonça Furtado when she was captured by the English during the Battle of ...
He named the port after Faustino Maldonado, of Tarapoto, who had explored the Madre de Dios in 1861 and drowned in the rapids of the Mamoré River. The Department of Madre de Dios was created by law on 26 December 1912, with Puerto Maldonado as its capital. [5] The city was formally recognized in 1985.
Madre de Dios (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈmaðɾe ðe ˈðjos] ⓘ, English: Mother of God) is a department and region in southeastern Peru, bordering Brazil, Bolivia and the Peruvian departments of Puno, Cusco and Ucayali, in the Amazon Basin. Its capital is the city of Puerto Maldonado.
The Convent of the Mother of God, or Royal Monastery of Enxobregas, was founded in 1509 by the initiative of the queen D. Leonor, wife of D. João II.There were several reforms and restoration done in the building during the reign of D. João III, D. Pedro II, D. João V.
Madre de Dios (departamento) Usage on la.wikipedia.org Regio Fluminis Matris Dei; Usage on lt.wikipedia.org Madre de Dioso departamentas; Usage on lv.wikipedia.org Peru administratīvais iedalījums; Usage on mk.wikipedia.org Мадре де Диос (регион) Региони во Перу; Usage on nl.wikipedia.org Madre de Dios (regio ...
Most of the Tambopata is in the Madre de Dios and Puno regions in Peru, but the upper parts of the river forms the border between Peru and Bolivia, and its origin is in La Paz department in Bolivia. The Tambopata is a tributary of the Madre de Dios River , into which it merges at the city of Puerto Maldonado .
Madre de Dios may refer to: Spanish for Mother of God, Christian title for Mary, the mother of Jesus; Madre de Dios Province, Bolivia; Madre de Dios Island, Chile; Madre de Dios Terrane, Chile; Madre de Dios Mine, Chile; Madre de Dios Department, Peru; Madre de Dios River, Peru; Madre de Dios, a 2001 album by Dozer