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Teherán = Tehran (تهران Tehrân, Iranian capital), from Persian words "Tah" meaning "end or bottom" and "Rân" meaning "[mountain] slope"—literally, bottom of the mountain slope. tulipán = tulip, from Persian دلبند dulband Band = To close, To tie.
The railway line was called "Ferrocarril del Sur", literally meaning "railway of the south". [4] [5] [6] The BAGSR opened the station of Bajo Hondo in 1891, hence the birth of the town. The name "Bajo Hondo" comes from the Spanish word "Bajo" meaning down, which the local people used to refer to the slope that exists shortly after where the ...
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An andén (plural andenes), Spanish for "platform", [1] is a stair-step like terrace dug into the slope of a hillside for agricultural purposes. The term is most often used to refer to the terraces built by pre-Columbian cultures in the Andes mountains of South America. Andenes had several functions, the most important of which was to increase ...
Informally, any sloping line is called diagonal. The word diagonal derives from the ancient Greek διαγώνιος diagonios, [1] "from corner to corner" (from διά- dia-, "through", "across" and γωνία gonia, "corner", related to gony "knee"); it was used by both Strabo [2] and Euclid [3] to refer to a line connecting two vertices of a ...
Topographic maps conventionally show topography, or land contours, by means of contour lines. Contour lines are curves that connect contiguous points of the same altitude . In other words, every point on the marked line of 100 m elevation is 100 m above mean sea level.
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This can vary according to the slope and amplitude of the terrestrial relief, but is usually three to five times the horizontal scale. A series of parallel profiles, taken at regular intervals on a map, can be combined to provide a more complete three-dimensional view of the area that appears on the topographic map.