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Cajon Pass (; elevation 3,777 ft (1,151 m)) is a mountain pass between the San Bernardino Mountains and the San Gabriel Mountains in Southern California in the United States. It was created by the movements of the San Andreas fault. Located in the Mojave Desert, the pass is an important link from the Greater San Bernardino Area to the Victor Valley, and northeast to Las Vegas. Cajon Pass is at the head of Horsethief Canyon, traversed by California State Route 138 (SR 138) and railroad tracks owned by BNSF Railway and Union Pacific Railroad. Railroad improvements in 1972 reduced its maximum elevation from about to 〔 while also reducing the curvature. Interstate 15 does not traverse Cajon Pass, but rather the nearby Cajon Summit, , elevation .〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher= AARoads.com )〕 However, the entire area including Cajon Pass and Cajon Summit is often collectively called Cajon Pass.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Cajon Pass/Cajon Canyon )〕 Sometimes the entire area is called Cajon Pass, but a distinction is made between Cajon Pass and Cajon Summit in detail.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher= Federal Emergency Management Agency )〕 In 1851, a group of Mormon settlers led by Amasa M. Lyman and Charles C. Rich traveled through the Cajon Pass in covered wagons on their way from Salt Lake City to southern California. A prominent rock formation in the pass, where the Mormon trail and the railway merge (at , near Sullivan's Curve), is known as Mormon Rocks. ==Name== In Spanish, the word ''cajón'' refers to a box or drawer. The name of the pass is derived from the Spanish land grant that encompassed the area; it was first referred to in English on a 1852 map.〔(California Place Names: The Origin and Etymology of Current Geographical Names )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cajon Pass」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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