Anza-borrego

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Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A state park within the Colorado Desert in southern California, United States.

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"The pageantry can best be seen in California’s 640,000 acre Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, northeast of San Diego, where visitors can wander among the fanfare of hot pink Bigelow’s Monkey Flower, purple Sand Verbena, and white and yellow Evening Primrose."

Etymology

From the name of 18th-century Spanish explorer Juan Bautista de Anza, and the Spanish word borrego (“sheep”).

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