Corral Hollow Pass | |
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Portezuela de Buenos Ayres | |
Corral Hollow Pass
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Elevation | 1600 feet |
Traversed by | County Hwy J2 Tesla Road |
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Location | Alameda County, California |
Range | Diablo Range |
Topo map | Midway, CA |
Corral Hollow Pass, originally Portezuela de Buenos Ayres (Pass of Good Winds) is a mountain pass of the Diablo Range southeast of Livermore, in Alameda County, California. This pass, at the elevation 1600 feet, was the point where the El Camino Viejo crossed the Diablo range over the Arroyo Seco in the southwestern part of the Livermore Valley and drops down a deep canyon into Corral Hollow near the former mining town of Tesla, then passes eastward along Corral Hollow Creek into the San Joaquin Valley. Today the Tesla Road, County Hwy J2, follows this route.
The name Portezuela de Buenos Ayres appears on the Diseño del Rancho Las Positas.[1][2] Portezuela means "small door" in Spaniah and in Mexico can mean "a pass between hills".[3] By 1873, the name of the pass had changed and appeared on a California State Geological Survey map as Corral Hollow Pass.[4]