..Amador Valley. Located
at the western end
..of the Livermore-Amador Valley,
the name
..honors its first settler, Don
Jose M. Amador
..who built an adobe house in 1826
where
..Dublin is now and received the
San Ra-
..mon grant of 37,000 acres from
Mexico in
..1835.
..Arroyo Seco. This creek
begins west of Tes-
..la and flows northwest across
East Avenue
..to Las Positas Creek. The Spanish
transla-
..tion is very appropriate: "dry
creek."
..Arroyo Mocho. It means
"'cut-off creek"
..and spreads into smaller creeks
running
..between Livermore and Pleasanton,
end-
..ing up near Santa Rita.
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