pongo
Noun
Meaning
Any large ape; especially, the chimpanzee and the orang-outang.
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He fitted out an expedition at Loja in Ecuador, descended the Rio Santiago to the Marañón, passed through the Pongo in 1557 and invaded the country of the Mayna Indians.
“I ken, Pongo, we will go fer a walk in a wee bit.”
The gibbons (family Hylobatidae) and then orangutans (genus Pongo) were the first groups to split from the line leading to the hominins, including humans—followed by gorillas, and, ultimately, by the chimpanzees (genus Pan).
The Pongo de Manseriche is 3 miles (4.8 km) long, located at 4° 27' 30" south latitude and 77° 34' 51" west longitude, just below the mouth of the Rio Santiago, and between it and the old missionary station of Borja.
The Pongo de Manseriche was first discovered by the Adelantado Joan de Salinas.
I'm not the outlining type, so I put Pongo in front of the ATM and let him run with it.