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)
“Like an unseasonable stormy day,
Which makes the silver rivers drown their shores,
As if the world were all dissolved to tears,
So high above his limits swells the rage
Of Bolingbroke.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“I remember once dreaming of pushing a canoe up the rivers of Maine, and that, when I had got so high that the channels were dry, I kept on through the ravines and gorges, nearly as well as before, by pushing a little harder, and now it seemed to me that my dream was partially realized.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)