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Hay mosquitos cerca de las rocas grandes.

Hay mosquitos cerca de las rocas grandes.
There are mosquitoes near the big rocks.
From Lesson 154:Concessive clauses (aunque)·Spanish (Latin America)

Questions & Answers about Hay mosquitos cerca de las rocas grandes.

Why do we use hay instead of están for 'there are'?
Hay is the special form of the verb haber used to say 'there is' or 'there are' to declare that something exists. We use forms of estar (like están) to talk about the location of a specific thing we already know about (for example, los mosquitos están cerca = the mosquitoes are nearby).
Why isn't there a word for 'some' before mosquitos?
After hay, when we are talking about plural nouns in a general way, we usually just drop the article entirely. You could say hay unos mosquitos (there are some mosquitoes), but just hay mosquitos is the most natural way to state that they are around. Note that you can never use definite articles (el, la, los, las) right after hay.
Why do we need de in cerca de? Doesn't cerca already mean 'near'?
By itself, cerca is an adverb meaning 'close' or 'nearby' (like in the sentence el parque está cerca). But when you want to say 'near something', you must always use the two-word phrase cerca de before the object.
Rocas is feminine, so why isn't the adjective grandas?
Adjectives that end in -e in their singular form, like grande, don't change for gender. They use the exact same form for both masculine and feminine nouns. To make it plural to match las rocas, you just add an -s to get grandes.

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