Corral Hollow Creek (Arroyo De Los Buenos Aires or Ayres) | |
Buenos Ayres Creek | |
stream | |
Name origin: Spanish | |
Country | United States |
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State | California |
Region | Alameda County, San Joaquin County, California |
Source | Head of Corral Canyon |
- location | 1.9 mi (0 km) north of Mount Boardman, San Joaquin County |
- coordinates | [1] |
Mouth | Delta-Mendota Canal |
- location | 4.3 miles South of Tracy, California, San Joaquin County |
- elevation | 197 ft (60 m) [1] |
- coordinates | [1] |
Length | 21.39 mi (34 km) |
Corral Hollow Creek, origainally El Arroyo de los Buenos Ayres (The Creek of the Good Winds), later Buenos Ayres Creek, is a tributary stream of the San Joaquin River with part in Alameda County and parts in San Joaquin County draining the eastern slopes of part of the Diablo Range within the Central Valley of California, USA. Its source is in Corral Canyon, 1.9 miles north of Mount Boardman in San Joaquin County, flows north 1.89 miles where it turns to flow west-northwest 8.5 miles into Alameda County and Corral Hollow, then turns abruptly east in the vicinity of Tesla to flow 2.5 miles east, into San Joaquin County again, and another 2.5 miles to where it turns again in a northeasterly direction for 6 miles to the Delta-Mendota Canal, 4.3 miles South of Tracy, California, in the San Joaquin Valley.[2]
Named Arroyo de los Buenos Ayres or Aires by the Spanish, the creek retained this name despite the arrival of the Americans and the 49ers for some time. The name "Arroyo Buenos Ayres" appears on on the Charles Drayton Gibbes' "Map of the Southern Mines" in 1852.[3] However an 1857 Map Of The State Of California shows the canyon was now named Corral Hollow, but Buenos Aryes Creek, although anglicised, remained with its old name.[4] By 1873 a State Geological Survey map indicated the name change was complete to Corral Hollow Creek.[5]