Represa

See also: represa and represá

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish represa (“dam”), named after the nearby dam under construction in 1892.

Proper noun

Represa

  1. An unincorporated community in Sacramento County, California, United States, the site of Folsom State Prison.
    • 2024 April 16, Ishani Desai, “California inmate dies after guards use ‘physical force’ to restrain him during prison attack”, in The Sacramento Bee‎[1], archived from the original on 11 June 2025:
      Whether any staffers at the 1,828-capacity prison, one of three on the Represa grounds, were disciplined or placed on administrative leave was not disclosed.
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