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Origin of Names of the Region
1) In 1535, Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca passed through the area of Presidio, placed a cross on a
mountainside and gave the pueblo what name?
a) La Navidad en Chinati
c) Casas Grandes
b) La Junta de las Cruces
d) Despoblado
2) Flowing southward from the Cuesta del Burro Mountains into the Rio Grande, Cibolo Creek
has the origin of its name from the local Native American word meaning what?
a) Javelina
c) Bison
b) Gold
d) Rocky
3) Western gateway to Big Bend National Park, the town of Study Butte acquired its name in the
early 1900s from which person?
a) Will Study, miner
c) Rubye Study, playwright
b) Diego Luna, schoolteacher
d) Orestudy Borglum, geologist
4) The Chihuahuan Desert is the largest in North America, over 400,000 square kilometers. The
word Chihuahua is derived from the Native American phrase meaning what?
a) uninhabitable place
c) many cactus
b) minuscule canine
d) dry, sandy place
5) Fort D.A. Russell in Marfa, which is now primarily owned and occupied by the Chinati
Foundation, was originally called Camp Marfa. What name did it exist by briefly before becom-
ing Camp Marfa?
a) Fort Faver
c) Fort Spencer
b) Camp Albert
d) Campo de Carlos
Bonus: Which Spanish phrase or word used above means “uninhabitable place?”
Answers: 1-B, 2-C, 3-A, 4-D, 5-B, Bonus: 1-D
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