Calle de Pando

Pando is a Spanish surname widespread across the northern peninsula, toponymic in origin: from the Latin pandus, a nearly flat piece of ground between two slopes. Like so many streets in the old fringe of Valdeacederas, Pando bears a single surname, with no first name or title to help identify whom it honors. Which Pando was meant to be remembered when it was labeled is undocumented. Valdeacederas grew from 1860, when the army returning from the African war camped in the pasture north of Madrid and gave the name Tetuán de las Victorias. It belonged for decades to Chamartín de la Rosa until the capital absorbed it in 1948, and in that stitching of town and city many names passed on without documentation. Pando is one of those that arrived with no memory of where it came from.