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Castilla del Oro mapped in 1550 by Amerigo Vespucci. Castilla de Oro or del Oro (Spanish: [kasˈtiʎa ðe ˈoɾo]) was the name given by the Spanish settlers at the beginning of the 16th century to the Central American territories from the Gulf of Urabá, near today's Colombian-Panamanian border, to the Belén River.
Oro is a Spanish-language name literally meaning "gold". It may be a given name, a nickname or a surname. Notable people with the name include: Oro (wrestler), Jesús Javier Hernández Solís (1971–1993), Mexican professional wrestler; Alfredo de Oro (1863–1948), Cuban billiards and pool player; Joan Oró (1923–2004), Catalan (Spanish ...
The Torre del Oro (Arabic: بُرْج الذَّهَب, romanized: burj aḏẖ-ḏẖahab, lit. 'Tower of Gold') is a dodecagonal military watchtower in Seville , southern Spain . It was erected by the Almohad Caliphate in order to control access to Seville via the Guadalquivir river.
Ixtapan del Oro is a town and municipality in the State of Mexico, in Mexico. The name “Ixtapan” comes from Nahuatl and means 'in the place of little salt'. "del Oro" is Spanish, meaning 'of the gold'. This name was added in 1894 when some veins of gold were found here. [1]
Plazas, C. e.a. (1986) La cultura del oro y el agua. Un proyecto de reconstrucción Boletín Cultural y Bibliográfico Número 6, Volumen XXIII; Sáenz, J. (1993) Mujeres de barro: estudio de las figurinas cerámicas de Montelíebano Boletín Museo del Oro. Nº 34–35; Plazas, C. e.a. (1981) El Legendario Zenú Boletín del Museo del Oro. Año ...
El Dorado (Spanish: [el doˈɾaðo], English: / ˌ ɛ l d ə ˈ r ɑː d oʊ /) is a mythical city of gold supposedly located somewhere in South America. The king of this city was said to be so rich that he would cover himself from head to foot in gold dust – either daily or on certain ceremonial occasions – before diving into a sacred lake ...
'Oro, a god in Polynesian mythology; Oro, a type of tequila; Oak Ridge Observatory or ORO, an observatory in Harvard, Massachusetts, United States; Open Research Online, an open-access repository of research publications; Oro language, a Lower Cross River language of Nigeria; Oro languages, a language family of Papua New Guinea
El Oro is one of 125 municipalities in the State of Mexico within the United Mexican States. The municipal seat is the town of El Oro de Hidalgo. The name El Oro (Spanish: [el ˈoɾo] ⓘ) means "the gold" in Spanish. It has subsequently been given an alternative Nahuatl name of "Teocuitlatl", meaning "sacred excrement" (referring to gold).