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San Rafael
/ˌsæn ɹəˈfɛl/
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What does San Rafael mean?
proper noun
- A city, the county seat of Marin County, California, United States.
- A census-designated place in Cibola County, New Mexico, United States.
- A town in Chalatenango department, El Salvador.
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/ˌsæn ɹəˈfɛl/
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It is a river of rivers—the Du Chesne, San Rafael, Yampa, Dolores, Gunnison, Cochetopa, Uncompahgre, Eagle, and Roaring Rivers, the Green and the Grand, and scores of others with branches innumerable, as mad and glad a band as ever sang on mountains, descending in glory of foam and spray from snow-banks and glaciers through their rocky moraine-dammed, beaver-dammed channels.