Orbe (disambiguation) explained

Orbe is a municipality in the Swiss canton of Vaud. Orbe may also refer to:

Places

• Orbe (river), river of the Rhine basin
• Orbe (Arrats), tributary of the Arrats river in Southern France
• Orbe District, district of the Swiss canton of Vaud
  • Orbe Castle, castle in the municipality of Orbe
  • Orbe Temple, alternative name of the Reformed Church of Notre-Dame, Orbe, in the municipality of Orbe

People

• Gabriel Ortiz de Orbé (1600–1661), Roman Catholic prelate
• Gonzalo Rubio Orbe (1909–1994), Ecuadorian anthropologist and historian
• José María de Orbe y Gaytán, 1st Viscount of Orbe (1848-1933), Spanish Carlist soldier and politician

Other

• Canal Orbe 21, television station in Buenos Aires, Argentina

See also

• Orbe-Chavornay railway, in Vaud, Switzerland
• Liber de orbe, 1130s CE Latin translation of an 8th century Arabic cosmological work
• Andrés de Orbe y Larreategui (fl. 1730s–1740s), Grand Inquisitor of Spain
• Orb (disambiguation)
• Orba (disambiguation)