According to local legend, the town received its name from a local dignitary, who, upon seeing a fight break out at the dedication of the first railroad depot, exclaimed, "This reminds me of the "Battle of Cerro Gordo".
Found along the Avenue of the Dead, in between the Pyramid of the Moon and the Ciudadela, and in the shadow of the massive mountain Cerro Gordo, the pyramid is part of a large complex in the heart of the city.
Cerro Porteño | Cerro Torre | Cerro Largo Department | C.A. Cerro | Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory | Cerro Largo | Cerro de la Estrella | Cerro | El Cerro del Aripo | Cerro Pajonal | Cerro de Pasco | San Pietro in Cerro | João Gordo | Cerro Renca | Cerro Punta, Chiriquí | Cerro Paranal | Cerro Pan de Azúcar | Cerro Negro | Cerro Machín | Cerro, Havana | Cerro El Plomo | Cerro Corá | Cerro Azul (municipality) | Cerro Azul | Villa del Cerro | Monte Gordo, Cape Verde | Monte Gordo | Hipódromo, Cerro Largo | El Gordo y la Flaca | El Cerro |
The author Remi Nadeau, is a descendent of the family involved with the transport of ingots from Cerro Gordo across Owens Lake and by mule train to Los Angeles.
By the end of 1876 Remi Nadeau's Cerro Gordo Freighting Company had hauled 10,000 bars worth some $4,000,000 over the Bullion Trail which was originally built for the ore of the Cerro Gordo Mines.
The trying three-week (one way) journey improved after the formation of the Cerro Gordo Freighting Company, run by ancestors of regional historian Remi Nadeau who has written of this period.