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Spanish
Etymology
Calque of English Death Valley. Literally, “Valley of the Death”.
Proper noun
Valle de la Muerte m
- Death Valley, a valley in eastern California.
2005, William B. Rice, “La gente del Valle de la Muerte”, in El desierto del Valle de la Muerte, page 24:Los indígenas americanos llegaron al Valle de la Muerte hace muchos años. Sin embargo, no vivían allí todo el año. En ocasiones acampaban y cazaban. A veces no entraban en el Valle de la Muerte durante muchos años.- The indigenous Americans arrived in Death Valley many years ago. However, they did not live there all year. On occasions, they camped and hunted. Sometimes they did not enter Death Valley for many years.
1900, Pan American Union, Bulletin of the Pan American Union, page 1114:Nada hay en California que llame la atención del viajero tanto como el Valle de la Muerte, que mide 75 millas de largo y 8 de ancho en su parte más angosta.- There is nothing in California that attracts the attention of the traveler as much as Death Valley, which measures 75 miles long and 8 miles wide at its narrowest part.
1921, G. Alañá, El Automovil en Mexico, page 25:Las montañas Panamist por el oeste, y las montañas Negras y las Fúnebres hacia el sur, encierran el Valle de la Muerte entre lo que puede llamarse dos inmensas puertas de hierro.- The Panamist mountains to the west, and the Black and Funeral mountains to the south, enclose Death Valley between what may be called two immense gates of iron.