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Re: What is a Rancho???

 
David,

Thanks for the explanation.  I had been wondering about the 
term "Estancia".  I've also seen "Estanzuela" and I would guess it 
derived from the word "Estancia"?  The other term I've come across 
is "Puesto".  I picture that to be even smaller than a Rancho, but I 
am not sure.  I really haven't looked into it.  Does anyone know?

Maria Cortez
Elk Grove, CA

--- In ranchos@yahoogroups.com, "David P. Delgado" <dpdelgado@j...> 
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> Joseph,
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> I think that the closest English equivalent of "rancho" is "town".  
The word town is as small and varied as the word "rancho".  A town 
can be anything from a single dwelling to a formally organized group 
of homes and families with formal organization.  I think it's 
important to keep in mind that some words in use today are holdovers 
from long ago.  For example, "villa" meant a community with at least 
25 white european families as permanent residents.  Permission had to 
petitioned from the Spanish Crown to be granted such status.  
A "pueblo" was a community in which biracial, white, and indigenous 
people lived.  A "ranchería" was a community of indigenous people 
only (usually "wild", i.e. unbaptized).  The other term I have seen 
while reading old documents is "estancia".  This last word refers to 
a bivouac area.  These terms and their meanings disappeared along 
with the Spanish after Mexico separated from Spain.  I think that the 
word "pueblo" has remained in the voaculary of many people but 
meaning that are different from place to place.  I think it's really 
difficult to find a simple equivalent because words change so much 
over time in English as well as in Spanish.
> 
> David Delgado in Albany, CA
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joseph Puentes <makas@n...>
> Sent: Jul 1, 2005 4:07 PM
> To: LosRanchos <ranchos@yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: [ranchos] What is a Rancho???
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> I think of it as a small, small community as in a large 
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