San Diego’s Balboa Park got its name in 1910, replacing its original title, “City Park.” The comparatively bland name was swapped as an homage to Vasco Nuñez de Balboa, a Spanish conquistador who claimed all of the shores of the Pacific Ocean for Spain’s province in the early 16th century.
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The exciting history of SD’s oldest park
Posted on 31 January 2011.
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