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- Spanish · borrowed fromRío de Oro
- English todayRío de Oro
Borrowed from Spanish Río de Oro (literally “Gold River”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Río de Oro
Today it means: One of the two territories (the other being Saguia el-Hamra) that formed the Spanish province of Spanish Sahara after 1969; it had been taken as a Spanish colonial possession in the late 19th century. Full definition →
Spanish Río de Oro