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Raphael Rivera, discoverer of the Las Vegas valley (1829)

In 1829, Antonio Armijo, a Mexican trader from Santa Fe, New Mexico, led a sixty-person and one-hundred-mule caravan along,the Spanish Trail from Santa Fe to Los Angeles. While Armijo's caravan was camped on Christmas Day, about 100 miles northeast of present-day Las Vegas, a scouting party rode west in search of water. Rivera headed west of the Colorado River and stumbled upon what is now known as the Las Vegas valley. Camping on the top of a mesa that overlooked the valley, Rivera could see springs and meadows thriving in the middle of the desert. In Spanish, the phrase "Las Vegas" means "fertile plains." The fertility was due to the presence of artesian springs which where numerous in the valley at the time of discovery (1829). The City of Las Vegas now recognizes Raphael Rivera with a park and community center bearing his name.