Maynas

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Maynas was a historical region and indigenous group in the Amazon Basin, whose name was later used for the Maynas Province in Peru.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Maynas canonical 4

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Statements (42)

Predicate Object
instanceOf colonial administrative division
historical region
indigenous people
province
associatedWithActivity mission settlements
riverine trade
associatedWithRiver Amazon River
Marañón River
Napo River
colonialAdministration Comandancia General de Maynas
colonialStatus mission province
colonizedBy Spain
contactWith Jesuit missions
Spanish missionaries
country Peru
demographicType multiethnic indigenous population
ethnicGroupOf Amazonian indigenous peoples
ethnonymLanguage Spanish
hasAlternativeName Mainas
hasCapital Iquitos
hasPart Maynas Province
historicalRegionOf Spanish Empire
historicalSignificance center of Jesuit missionary activity in the Amazon
indigenousGroupOf Colombia
Ecuador
Peru
languageFamily indigenous languages of the Amazon
locatedIn Amazon Basin
Loreto Region
South America
northeastern Peru
namedAfter Maynas
partOf Viceroyalty of Peru
presentInModernCountry Colombia
Ecuador
Peru
presentInModernEntity Loreto Region
Peruvian Amazon
regionType frontier missionary region
religionAfterContact Roman Catholicism
sameAs Maynas
timePeriod colonial era

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Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Maynas Province namedAfter Maynas
Maynas Province namedAfter Maynas
subject linked to: Maynas
Mainas sameAs Maynas
subject linked to: Maynas