This is the curious street of a city in California with names of Galician municipalities
The Viejo mission could be defined as the typical city of the South California: Large houses with two waters, the perfectly cut grass, the palm trees and cars parked at the entrance. However, their residents do not walk for Main Street or Sunset Avenue, which would be normal in an American city. Here, People walk through card, vehicles circulate through Chantada Court And families live in Lalín Street.
The old toponymy of the mission is the least curious. Open a map for turn with a small one Galicia. The road of this residential area of Orange County, located halfway between Los Angeles and San Diego, is made up of names of the Galician cities such as Transarás, Celanova, Betanzos, Cangas, Maside or Compostela. The most curious thing is that these names have not been accidents.
A dictionary and several maps of Spain
Many might think that the Mission Viejo road is linked to a Galizian community based in the area. However, there is no trace of no natural person in Galicia. The names are the legacy of a neighbor To which in the 70s he was commissioned by the task of improving the toponymy of the city. This is Marilyn Clement, an speaker and a local guide who complained that some roads were called “El Hamh” or the game “, some names that considered fun.
An article published on April 18, 1979 in Mission Viejo Company Newscollected by The voice of Galicia, He explains that the woman was taken to put a new name on the street. He had a previous knowledge of the Spaniard, but he resorted to dictionaries for greater precision. The names I chose They were not random and avoided negative connotations. Also, I wanted to describe life in the city. Therefore, roads such as chacota (fun) or chiripa (a blow of good luck) were born.
But it didn’t stay there. He was also inspired by several maps from Spain that a friend gave him. In this way, in a few kilometers you can find roads called Aruza (a probable deformation of Arzúa), Betanzos, Maside or Viana. The names of the parks do not go unnoticed: Barbadanes and Let’s, with reference to Orennsano Barbantes and Lucena Monforte de Lemos. And one of the neighborhoods is called Galicia South. Next to him, other Spanish names coexist: via Zaragoza, Alicante Drive, Preiados Park, Madrid del Lago or Cordova Vista.
