Rivers
- Green River (Utah) (the Spanish friars Escalante and Dominguez had originally named this river "Río Buenaventura" (Buenaventura River) in his expedition in Utah in 1775, but in the early nineteenth century, the Spanish and Mexicans named it "Río Verde", being Green River only a translation of that word).
- Guadalupe River (California)
- Rio Brazos (called the Rio de los Brazos de Dios by early Spanish explorers (translated as "The River of the Arms of God"))
- Rio Grande (Big river)
- Perdido River (Lost river)
- San Pedro River (Arizona)
Read more about this topic: List Of U.S. Place Names Of Spanish Origin
Famous quotes containing the word rivers:
“We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed to forget the feuds of a thousand years.”
—Winston Churchill (1874–1965)
“While the Republic has already acquired a history world-wide, America is still unsettled and unexplored. Like the English in New Holland, we live only on the shores of a continent even yet, and hardly know where the rivers come from which float our navy.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Thy summer voice, Musketaquit,
Repeats the music of the rain;
But sweeter rivers pulsing flit
Through thee, as thou through Concord Plain.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)