Etymology
The name Los Banos is Spanish for "the baths", and was originally spelled Los Baños. It is named after a spring that feeds natural wetlands in the western San Joaquín Valley. Its official spelling is without the eñe., and signs do not insert the tilde above the n. It can be pronounced either as if the eñe were present ("los banyos"), or as it is spelled (an anglicised "loss bannos").
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