Corral Hollow Pass

Corral Hollow Pass
Portezuela de Buenos Ayres
Corral Hollow Pass
Corral Hollow Pass
Elevation 1600 feet
Traversed by County Hwy J2 Tesla Road
Location
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]

References

  1. ^ Diseño del Rancho Las Positas, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-6000
  2. ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Rancho Las Positas
  3. ^ portezuela: Velazquez Spanish and English Dictionary, Velazquez Press, 2007
  4. ^ State Geological Survey Of California. J.D. Whitney, State Geologist. Map Of The Region Adjacent To The Bay Of San Francisco. 1873. The Coast, Rancho, Township and Section Lines from Materials furnished by the U.S. Coast Survey and the U.S. Surveyor General's Office, the Topography chiefly from Original Surveys by C.F. Hoffman ... Julius Bien, Lith., 1873.

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