Some yachting groups have misidentified the word as meaning beautiful view or beautiful passage.
The name, Belleview, which means beautiful view, came from one of the original settlers whose daughter was named "Belle".
The name means "good view" in Spanish.
Its name in the Mixtec language is Ndijiinu, which means "good view".
It was Scripps who named the area Miramar, meaning "view of the sea".
Its name can mean "good view", "card point", or "beautiful vista".
"It means big view of life," she said.
According to some historians, the term Guasayán could mean "path behind the sierra", or "view from the heights".
The area was named Bellevue Gardens, meaning 'good or pretty view'.
The name, which means "good view or hill" derives from a farm estate called "Belmont" subdivided in 1885.