Cazadero (hunting-place).
Chileno (Chilean, native of Chile).
Punta Delgada (thin or narrow point). See Punta Gorda.
Cape Fortunas (cape fortunes). Fortuna is a village in Humboldt County, twelve miles south of Eureka.
Del Norte (of the north), is the name of the county in the extreme northwestern corner of the state.
García (a surname), the name of a creek in Mendocino County.
Punta Gorda (thick or broad point). Punta Gorda and Punta Delgada are adjacent points on the northern coast whose contrast in shape is indicated by their names. See Punta Delgada.
Gualala, a village in Mendocino County, forty miles west of Cloverdale. This is an Indian word, “probably from walali, a generic term of the Pomo language, signifying the meeting-place of the waters of any in-flowing stream with those of the stream into which it flows, or with the ocean. The present spelling is probably influenced by the Spanish.”—(S. A. Barrett, in California Publications of Archaeology and Ethnology.)