Casiquiare

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Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Casiquiare, itself borrowed from Ye'kwana Kashishiwade.

Proper noun

Casiquiare

  1. A distributary of the upper Orinoco flowing southward into the Rio Negro, in Venezuela.