Colorado

/kɑləˈɹɑdoʊ/

/kɑləˈɹædoʊ/

/kɒləˈɹɑːdəʊ/

From Spanish colorado (“red, ruddy, colored”), usually from the reddish appearance of some silt-laden rivers, or from Portuguese colorado in the case of Brazilian locations.

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Colorado (disambiguation)
Colorado River

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Meronym: humpback chub

A million cascade brooks unite to form a thousand torrent creeks ; a thousand torrent creeks unite to form half a hundred rivers beset with cataracts ; half a hundred roaring rivers unite to form the Colorado, which rolls, a mad, turbid stream, into the Gulf of California.

1895, J[ohn] W[esley] Powell, chapter I, in Canyons of the Colorado, Meadville, PA: Flood & Vincent; republished as The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons, New York: Dover, 1961, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 29:

Gulf of California
Gulf of California#English

A major river of western North America, running from the Rocky Mountains in the United States to the Gulf of California in Mexico.


Colorado

The Colorado River (a major river of western North America, running from the Rocky Mountains in the United States to the Gulf of California in Mexico.)


Colorado

Colorado (a river in North America, located between the United States and Mexico)


Santiago

/sæntiˈɑːɡəʊ/

Chinese Filipino
Guan Yu
James, brother of Jesus
Jose Rizal
Santiago
Santiago (disambiguation)

From Spanish Santiago, ellision of earlier Sant'Iago and Sant Iago, from Latin Sanctus Iācōbus (“Saint James or holy James”), the latter word deriving from Ancient Greek Ἰάκωβος (Iákōbos), from Hebrew יַעֲקֹב (ya‘ăqṓḇ, “Jacob”, literally “he will/shall heel”), from עָקֵב (‘āqḗḇ, “heel”) and the Biblical account of the patriarch Jacob's birth in Genesis 25:26. Piecewise doublet of Saint James.
The Guan Yu sense among Chinese Filipinos in the Philippines is due to a syncretic association of the deified Chinese general with St. James, who are both known for their assertiveness and heroism, which non-Chinese and people in the Philippines like Jose Rizal during the 19th century first associated with and/or surmised the Chinese folk deities venerated by Chinese Filipinos on Chinese altars and prints with popular Christian or Muslim figures.


Coatzacoalcos

From Spanish, from Classical Nahuatl; see below.

A large river which flows through the city of Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz, and into the Gulf of Mexico.


Coatzacoalcos

From Classical Nahuatl cōātl (“snake”) + tzacualli (“enclosure, something covered”) + -co (“a locative suffix”).

Coatzacoalcos (a major port city in the state of Veracruz, Mexico)

Coatzacoalcos (a municipality of Verazcruz, Mexico)

Coatzacoalcos (a large river which flows through the city of Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz, and into the Gulf of Mexico)


Rio Grande

/ˌɹiːoʊˈɡɹænd/

/ˌɹiːoʊˈɡɹændeɪ/

/ˌɹiːoʊˈɡɹɑːndeɪ/

/ˌɹaɪ.oʊ ˈɡɹænd/

Borrowed from Spanish Río Grande (“big river”).

Article V.
The Boundary line between the two Republics shall commence in the Gulf of Mexico, three leagues from land, opposite the mouth of the Rio Grande, otherwise called Rio Bravo del Norte, or opposite the mouth of it’s deepest branch, if it should have more than one branch emptying directly into the sea; from thence up the middle of that river, following the deepest channel, where it has more than one, to the point where it strikes the southern boundary of New Mexico; thence, westwardly, along the whole southern boundary of New Mexico (which runs north of the town called Paso) to it’s western termination; thence, northward, along the western line of New Mexico, until it intersects the first branch of the river Gila; (or if it should not intersect any branch of that river, then, to the point on the said line nearest to such branch, and thence in a direct line to the same;) thence down the middle of the said branch and of the said river, until it empties into the Rio Colorado; thence, across the Rio Colorado, following the division line between Upper and Lower California, to the Pacific Ocean.

1848, Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo^(https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Guadalupe_Hidalgo_(original)):

He was graduated with the second honors of his class in 1846; assigned to duty with a company of the Engineers, and ordered before the close of the year into active service on the line of the Rio Grande River.

1864, William Henry Hurlbert, General McClellan and the Conduct of the War, New York: Sheldon and Company, →OCLC, →OL, page 12:

The Zuma and Manzo Indians of the area were in the habit of going to the missions in the Spanish provinces below the Rio Grande River to solicit the padres to come to teach and baptize them in their villages.

1979, James Wakefield Burke, A Forgotten Glory: the Missions of Old Texas, Waco, TX: Texian Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 62:

When Mexico gained its independence from Spain, the new country also obtained control over the lands North of the Rio Grande River that had been previously held by the Spanish.

1991, Gary Reyes, Texas: the Land, the People, the Cities, Mallard Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 10:

Leaving Acoma, the captain and his soldiers advanced north-east, reaching the Rio Grande River on 7 September.

2017, Philip J. Potter, Explorers and Their Quest For North America, Pen & Sword, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 118:

In the immediate post-Cold War moment, New Mexico’s military role only expanded in importance, with formal calls for the twenty-first-century U.S. nuclear weapons complex to be consolidated along the Rio Grande River (Secretary of Energy Advisory Board Task Force 1995).

2021, Joseph Masco, The Future of Fallout, and Other Episodes in Radioactive World-Making, Duke University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 54:

A major river in the United States and Mexico, starting in Colorado, flowing through New Mexico, and forming the boundary between Texas and the Mexican states of Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León, and Tamaulipas for most of its length.

Rio Grande River

river; commonly used but redundant as the Rio means


Colorado River

Between us and the Colorado river we were aware that the country was extremely poor in grass, and scarce for water, there being many jornadas, (days’ journey,) or long stretches of 40 to 60 miles, without water, where the road was marked by bones of animals.

1845, J[ohn] C[harles] Frémont, Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the Year 1842, and to Oregon and North California in the Years 1843-’44, Washington: Gales and Seaton, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 259:

Where the Colorado River forms the boundary between California and Arizona it cuts through a number of volcanic rocks by black, yawning canyons.

1895, J[ohn] W[esley] Powell, chapter 1, in Canyons of the Colorado, Meadville, PA: Flood & Vincent; republished as The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons, New York: Dover, 1961, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 20:

Along the Colorado River there is no town from Moab in Utah to Needles in California, a distance of over a thousand miles (if we except the two small, improvised, completely artificial company towns connected with the building and operation of Glen Canyon Dam and Boulder Dam).

1968, Edward Abbey, “Down the River”, in Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness, McGraw-Hill; republished New York: Touchstone, 1968, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 171:

A major river in Colorado, Utah, Arizona, Nevada and California, United States and Baja California and Sonora, Mexico