Saluda

Saluda is a term with multiple uses in Spanish and in geography. In Spanish, saluda is the third-person singular present indicative form of the verb saludar, meaning he or she greets, or you greet when used with the formal Usted. It can appear in sentences such as “Él saluda a sus vecinos.”

In geography, Saluda refers to several places in the United States, particularly in the Carolinas. The Saluda River is a major river draining parts of western North Carolina and upstate South Carolina. It flows roughly southward and joins the Broad River at a point near Columbia to form the Congaree River. Saluda County, South Carolina, is a political subdivision named after the river, and the toponym has been used for other towns and geographic features in the region.

The place name Saluda is generally linked to the historic Saluda people, a Native American group in the region, and to the river and surrounding landscape. The exact origin of the ethnonym is not uniformly documented, but the name has been established in regional toponymy since the colonial period.