Orinoco (Newcastle Burrow)

Orinoco, pictured outside the Newcastle Burrow.

### Place of Birth

Newcastle Burrow, Newcastle, Tyne and Wear, England, Great Britain, Europe, Earth, Milky Way

### Place of Residence

Newcastle Burrow, Newcastle, Tyne and Wear, England, Great Britain, Europe, Earth, Milky Way

## Relations

### Friends

Thames, Romania, Ukraine, Belarus (born 29,602 BCE), Hungary, Scunthorpe, Great Uncle Patagonia (born 27,889 BCE), Great Uncle Patagonia, Great Uncle Christchurch, Düsseldorf, Uncle Argentina, Banbury, Paris (Newcastle Burrow), Great Uncle Servile, Great Uncle Basque, Great Uncle Castile, Great Uncle Madrid (born 1625), Great Uncle Alaska, Great Uncle Antarctica, Great Uncle Siberia (born 1039), Great Uncle Bulgaria, Tobermory, Madame Cholet, Miss Adelaide, Great Uncle Universe, Great-Great Aunt Thessaly, Shansi, Alderney, Tomsk, Bungo, Orinoco, Wellington, Stepney, Obidos, Cairngorm The MacWomble The Terrible, Botany, Yellowstone, Ironbridge, Great Uncle Vladivostok, Dalai Gartok, Great Uncle Congo, Hercules, Galloway (Brighton burrow), Hartlepool, Runcorn, Liverpool (Gwent Burrow), Montreal (born 1396), Ottawa (born 1398), Great Uncle Saskatchewan (born 1401), Great Uncle Euphrates, Great Aunt Ontario, Great Uncle Greenland, Great Uncle Athens, Great Uncle Warsaw, Great Saskatchewan (born 1245), Great Aunt Gdańsk, Great Uncle Siberia (born 1378), Great Aunt Penrith, Great Aunt Verona, Great Uncle Madrid (born 1480), Great Uncle Patigonia, Great Uncle Tierra Del Fuego, Great Uncle Helsinki, Great Uncle Coventry, Great Uncle Wolverhampton, Great Uncle Bulgaria (born 1500s), Great Uncle Northumberland, Benbecula, Great Uncle Leicester, Penzance, Serengeti, Chieftain Fashven, Great Uncle Dunedin, Onkel Bonn, Tante Lille, Chieftain Kyntire, Great Uncle Saskatchewan (born 1600s), Great Uncle England, Dundee (Loch Ness Burrow), Honourable Cousin Tokyo, Great-Great Aunt Matilda Murrumbidgee, Livingstone, Reykjavik, Quetta, Jamaica, Great-Great-Great Uncle Hapsburg Von Hohenzollern, Great Uncle Rumania, Great Uncle Budapest, Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Palestine, Gaza, Paris (born 1946), Omsk, Didcot, Tintagel, Penzance (born 1133), Tavistock, Windsor, Exeter, Redruth, Coventry

**Orinoco** (born 34,420 BCE) is an English womble who currently resides at the Newcastle Burrow, where he serves as a burrow elder. He was born at the Newcastle Burrow in 34,420 BCE and has resided there his entire life. At around the age of 150, he became a burrow elder. In 34,400 BCE, at the age of twenty, Orinoco met the explorer and time traveller Tomsk, who travelled back in time to visit him and other wombles at the Newcastle Burrow. Orinoco is an example of the Orinoco Phenomenon, an as-of-yet unexplained synchronicity between many different wombles from many different burrows across multiple thousands of years being named Orinoco and sharing salient characteristics, both physical and behavioural. It has been observed that many burrows will have one Orinoco at any one time, but will very rarely have two or more, even though burrows range in size from under 20 wombles to over 100 trillion. Orinoco is also notable for his longevity, belonging to a small group of wombles, whose random gene mutations have allowed them to exceed a natural lifespan of 35,000 years, approximately fifty-five times the average lifespan of a womble.