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Placer (Portuguese: parcel or pracel) is a term used by Portuguese and Spanish navigators and cartographers to refer to a certain kind of submerged bank or reef. Commonly the bottom of such a reef is sandy, but there are some where the bottom is muddy or stoney. Although most reefs
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See moreSpanish navigator and explorer Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa commented that placer likely originated as a term derived from placer mining in the Antilles, where pearl fishing was done mostly on shallow sandy reefs, which were
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See moreThe term appears in Spanish nautical charts as placer, although Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa writes it as placel. The Portuguese language equivalent and derived term is pracel or
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Placer County (/ ˈ p l æ s ər / PLASS-ərr; Spanish for "sand deposit"), officially the County of Placer, is a county in the U.S. state of California.As of the 2020 …
- County seat: Auburn
- Largest city: Roseville
- State: California
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