Liwaito, California

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Coordinates: 38°31′20″N, 121°58′15″W Liwaito (also Lewytos and Liguaytoy) is a former settlement of the Patwin branch of the Wintun tribe in Yolo County, California. The name means "waiving" in the Patwin language, and was also applied to Putah Creek.[1] It lay at an elevation of 135 feet (41 m). Its location is quite near Winters, California.[2]

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  1. ^ Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology, Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico (1906), pt. 1, p.711
  2. ^ Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology, Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico (1906), pt. 1, p.711