Camino del Chorrillo
It takes its name from a former chorrillo, the trickle of water that ran down this valley in northern Tetuán before the park covered it.
A chorrillo is the diminutive of a chorro: a thread of water, a small runnel. One ran down here. Camino del Chorrillo skirts the northwestern edge of Tetuán, marking the boundary with Moncloa-Aravaca, just where the ground drops toward the valley now occupied by the Agustín Rodríguez Sahagún park.
Before the park, this hollow of Valdeacederas was furrowed by streams. Nearby stood the Bishop’s spillway, which drained the surplus waters of the Canal de Isabel II, pictured around 1858 as a cascade of stepped falls of stone and brick. From that water running down the slope comes the path’s name.
Today it is a quiet edge-of-town street, almost rural in layout, looking out over the green of the park that took over the old hollow.