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Rio or Río is the Portuguese and Spanish word for "river". The term also exists in Italian, but is largely obsolete and used in a poetical or literary context to mean "stream"; the standard Italian word for "river" is fiume .
Rio de Janeiro (Portuguese: [ˈʁi.u d(ʒi) ʒɐˈne(j)ɾu] ⓘ [6]), or simply Rio, [7] is the capital of the state of Rio de Janeiro. It is the second-most-populous city in Brazil (after São Paulo ) and the sixth-most-populous city in the Americas.
Rios, Ríos or Riós are Spanish, Portuguese, and Galician surnames. The name has numerous origins. In Germany, Italy, France, UK, and the Americas the Ríos surname can also be found in the surname history books. [citation needed] The name was derived from the Spanish word "Rio," which means "river" (pronounced: Ree-Oess).
The Rio Grande (Rio del Norte) as mapped in 1718 by Guillaume de L'Isle. Río Grande is Spanish for "Big River" and Río Grande del Norte means "Big River of the North". In English, Rio Grande is pronounced either / ˈ r iː oʊ ˈ ɡ r æ n d / or / ˈ r iː oʊ ˈ ɡ r ɑː n d eɪ /.
Del Rio or del Río, del Rios is a Spanish term meaning "of / from the river", and may refer to: Places in the United States. Del Rio, California; Del Rio, Florida;
On a summer day before dawn, Rios met up with supervisor Enrique Perez at the head gate known as the Repartidor, a nickname that means "delivery man" in Spanish. The rusted steel border fence ...
Florida Meaning land of flowers, Florida's verdant landscape was discovered by Ponce de León on Easter Sunday. The Pascua Florida holiday in early April commemorates this discovery, during the season when flowers are abundant across Florida. Montana from Latinized Spanish meaning "mountainous", also in Spanish "montaña" is the name of "mountain"
El Río (Spanish: Estrecho del Río) is the name given to the sea strait that separates La Graciosa from Lanzarote in the Canary Islands. [1] Río, in Spanish, means 'river'.At its narrowest point, the strait is just over 1.1 kilometres (0.68 mi; 0.59 nmi) wide.