What is "prado"

public park and promenade in Madrid, 1640s, Spanish, from Latin pratum "meadow" (see prairie). Compare Prater, large park in Vienna, German, from Italian prato "meadow." French preau "little meadow," formerly praël, Italian pratello are from Vulgar Latin *pratellum, diminutive of pratum.

The Prado or Museo del Prado is the main Spanish national art museum.

Prado may also refer to:

Prado is one of nine parishes (administrative divisions) in Cabrales, a municipality within the province and autonomous community of Asturias, in northern Spain, near the Picos de Europa mountains.

The altitude is above sea level. It is in size with a population of 199 ( 2011). The postal code is 33555.

Prado is a former civil parish in the municipality of Melgaço in the Viana do Castelo District, Portugal. In 2013, the parish merged into the new parish Prado e Remoães. It has a population of 468 inhabitants and a total area of 2.61 km².

• Prado is ranked 2,358 out of 88,799 in the United States.
• There are approximately 9,553 people with the surname Prado in Spain, making it the 490th most common in the country.
• The name is commonly found in Italy, France and Brazil and is a derivative of Prato.

About the origin of the last name, there are two known possible origins to the Prado surname:

• The first one indicates the origin of the last name comes from Spain when the son of a noblewoman took the last name after the prado, Spanish word for field, where he was born.
• The last name is also said to have an Italian origin, more specifically from the Island of Sicily, where records have been found that indicate the presence of a noble family in the 16th century by the last name Prado. Prado comes from a variation of prato (Italian word for field).

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