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Represa

Represa proper noun: an unincorporated community in Sacramento County, California, United States, the site of Folsom State Prison.

Proper noun

Represa

  1. An unincorporated community in Sacramento County, California, United States, the site of Folsom State Prison.
    • 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.2024 April 16, Ishani Desai, “California inmate dies after guards use ‘physical force’ to restrain him during prison attack”, in The Sacramento Bee, archived from the original on 11 Jun 2025

Origin of Represa

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

Questions about Represa

What does Represa mean?
Represa means an unincorporated community in Sacramento County, California, United States, the site of Folsom State Prison.
What part of speech is Represa?
Represa is a proper noun.

Words near Represa in the dictionary

  1. repreparations
  2. reprepare
  3. reprepared
  4. reprepares
  5. repreparing
  6. Represa
  7. represcribe
  8. represcribed
  9. represcribes
  10. represcribing
  11. represcription

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