Borrego Pass, New Mexico

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    An unincorporated community of the Navajo Nation located in McKinley County, NM. The Spanish name Borrego, meaning "yearling lamb," corresponds with the Navajo name, Dibé Yázhí Habitiin, meaning "ascending lamb trail." This small town originally formed around a trading post that no longer operates there.

    Photo Credit

     "Borrego Pass Trading Post, 1949," photograph, Farmington Museum (1995_16_7). New Mexico Digital Collections. Center for Southwest Research, University Libraries, University of New Mexico.

    References

     
    Bright, William
         2004   Native American Placenames of the United States. Norman: University of Oklahoma
             Press.

    Linford, Laurance D.
         2001   Tony Hillerman's Navajoland: Hideouts, Haunts, and Havens in the Joe Leaphorn
              and Jim Chee Mysteries. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press.

    U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System
         November 13, 1980   Borrego Pass.
             http://geonames.usgs.gov/apex/f?p=gnispq:3:0::NO::P3_FID:886640, accessed February
             18, 2015.