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The same axis continues into the distant haze to the skyscrapers of La Défense and the Grande Arche.
The Rio Grande, the river in whose valley the capital lies, has been called the Great River in English, maybe partly because Spanish Grande suggests English Grand , but in fact Rio Grande means simply Big River . Great River would be Gran Rio . (That tricky syntax again.)
The name Grande Riviére de la Baleine became anglicized into Great Whale River , but this is ambiguous in English since the Great can modify either Whale or River . When it was translated back into French, the wrong sense was used, and it became Riviére de la Grande Baleine rather than the original Grande Riviére de la Baleine .
It is a pejorative expression, although it is sometimes used by Mexican people to describe themselves and their experience of illegally crossing the Rio Grande to come to the United States.
Rio Mar Country Club (Río Grande; Tel. 888-8811).