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California is not rooted on any indigenous language. It comes from a Spanish novel titled Las Sergas de Esplandian, which included a mytical island populated by beautiful Amazon women, known as California. It was written in 1510.

When Cortes' expeditions in northern Mexico led him to the peninsula of present-day Baja California (1536), he thought he had found an island, naming it as the mytical place.

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Q: What does the word California mean in Nahuatl?
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