Calle Gargantas
Named after mountain gorges, the deep ravines where water runs hemmed between walls of rock, part of the mountain-place-names that christened this corner of Ciudad Jardín.
In mountain speech, a garganta is the narrow pass that water carves between walls of rock: the deep ravine where the stream drops as the range spills toward the valley. That feature gives its name to this short street in Ciudad Jardín, in Chamartín.
When the blocks were developed, the street names followed a single thread: the geography of the Sierra de Guadarrama. Nearby you can read La Pedriza, Peñalara, Peñota and Pico del Águila. Where some name the peaks and pine woods, Gargantas names the cuts where the water flows.
This one drew the low, damp part of the terrain, the ravine. It is a brief street for a feature that in the real mountains can run for kilometres of vertical rock and cold water.