1. Orinoco - Noun
2. Orinoco - Proper noun
a South American river 1,500 miles long; flows into the South Atlantic
Source: WordNetAround 1000 B.C., the ceramic -using and agriculturalist Saladoid people came to the islands, migrating up the archipelago from the banks of the Orinoco River in Venezuela. Source: Internet
An example of this is the popular Merey blend (Orinoco bitumen and Mesa crude oil). Source: Internet
Heavy crude is typically classified as 10-22 API, making the Guyana finds only slightly better quality than the extra-heavy crude from Venezuela’s Orinoco belt and the tar sands from Canada’s Alberta province. Source: Internet
Colombia has four main drainage systems: the Pacific drain, the Caribbean drain, the Orinoco Basin and the Amazon Basin. Source: Internet
Historians are uncertain whether the river he descended was the Amazon or the Orinoco River, which runs more or less parallel to the Amazon further north. Source: Internet
However during the Orinoco's flood stage, that single, simply defined "origin of the canal" is turned into a region, and an entire strip along the southern bank of the Orinoco River. Source: Internet