Amazon

Within the field of peruvian popular music, there is a type of music called “cumbia tropical”, which comes from the amazon region. In this video you will hear a famous song of one of its best exponents: Juaneco y su Combo. The song calls: “Mujer Hilandera” (“Spinner woman”.
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Etymology

The name Amazon is said to arise from a war which Francisco de Orellana had with a tribe of Tapuyas where the women of the tribe fought alongside the men, as was the custom among the entire tribe. (Orellana's descriptions may have been accurate, but a few historians speculate that Orellana could have been mistaking indigenous men wearing "grass skirts" for women.) Orellana derived the name Amazonas from the ancient Amazons of Asia and Africa described by Herodotus and Diodorus in Greek legends.