Floreana

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Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    An island of San Cristobal canton, Galapagos, Ecuador.

Etymology

From Spanish isla Floreana, from floreana, from Ecuadorian president Juan José Flores + -ana (“-an: forming adjectives”), a name bestowed in 1832 upon Ecuador's annexation of the Galapagos Islands.

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