_Campo_ (a level field), also sometimes used in the sense of a camp, is the name of a place about forty miles east-southeast of San Diego, just above the Mexican border. _Campo_ was an Indian settlement, and may have been so-called by the Spaniards simply in reference to the camp of Indians.
_Cañada del Bautismo_ (glen of the baptism), so-called from the circumstance that two dying native children were there baptized by the padres, as told in the diary of Miguel Costansó, of the Portolá expedition of 1769. Death, when it came to the children of the natives, was often regarded as cause for rejoicing by the missionaries, not, of course, through any lack of humanity on their part, but because the Indian parents more readily consented to baptism at such a time, and the padres regarded these as so many souls “snatched from the burning.”
_Carriso_ (reed grass), is the name of a village and creek in San Diego County.
_Chula Vista_ (pretty view), is the name of a town near the coast, a few miles southeast of San Diego. _Chula_ is a word of Mexican origin, meaning pretty, graceful, attractive. “This name was probably first used by the promoters during the boom of 1887.”—(Mr. Charles B. Turrill.)
_La Costa_ (the coast), a place on the shore north of San Diego.
_Coyote Valley_, situated just below the southern border of the San Jacinto Forest Reservation. _Coyote_, the name of the wolf of Western America, is an Aztec word, originally _coyotl_.
_Cuyamaca_ is probably derived from the land grant of that name, which in turn took its name from the Cuyamaca Mountain, which, according to the scientists, was so-called in reference to the clouds and rain gathering around its summit. Mr. T. T. Waterman, instructor in Anthropology at the University of California, says the word is derived from two Indian words, _kwe_ (rain), and _amak_ (yonder), and consequently means “rain yonder.” The popular translation of it as “woman’s breast” is probably not based on fact. There was an Indian village of that name some miles northwest of San Diego.
_Descanso_ (rest), is the name of a place northeast of San Diego, so-called by a government surveying party for the reason that they stopped here each day for rest.