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Rancho Las Ciénegas was a 4,439-acre (17.96 km 2) Mexican land grant in present-day Los Angeles County, California given in 1823 to Francisco Avila by Governor Luis Antonio Argüello. [1] " La Ciénega" is derived from the Spanish word ciénega , which means swamp or marshland and refers to the natural springs and wetlands in the area between ...
With the cession of California to the United States following the Mexican-American War, the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo provided that the land grants would be honored. As required by the Land Act of 1851, a claim for Rancho La Ciénega ó Paso de la Tijera was filed with the Public Land Commission in 1852, [ 10 ] [ 11 ] [ 12 ] and the ...
La Cienega Boulevard is named after Rancho Las Cienegas Mexican land grant roughly in the region now called "West Los Angeles." The Spanish phrase la ciénaga translates into English as "the swamp " and the area named "Las Ciénegas" was a continual marshland due to the course of the Los Angeles River through that area prior to a massive ...
La Cienega Boulevard, a major arterial road in Los Angeles County, California La Cienega/Jefferson station, a station on the LA Metro E Line; Ciénega Creek, an intermittent stream in southern Arizona; Las Cienegas National Conservation Area, a protected area in Arizona; Río de la Ciénaga, a river in Puerto Rico; Ciénaga, Guánica, Puerto ...
SR 58 was rerouted to I-15 in Barstow south of the I-40 interchange in c. 2000. [ citation needed ] The former eastern terminus is now known as "Old Highway 58". Freeway bypasses in Tehachapi, Boron, Mojave, Hinkley, and Kramer Junction were completed in c. 1975 , 1981, 2003, 2017, and 2020, respectively.
Maps: See how large the California wildfires are. Nigel Chiwaya. January 16, 2025 at 6:54 AM. Multiple major wildfires are leaving a trail of destruction and death in the Los Angeles area.
Las Virgenes Road is the truncated version of El Rancho de Nuestra la Reina de Las Virgenes (transl. the ranch of our Lady of the Virgins), also known as Rancho Las Vírgenes. [2] Malibu Canyon Road was named after Rancho Topanga Malibu Sequit , in which Malibu, a poor Anglicisation of Humaliwo ( transl. place of the wild surf ), was the name ...
In 2015, Barstow was one of the filming locations for the film Sky as well as Bombay Beach, Hinkley, Joshua Tree, Landers, Lenwood, Ludlow, Newberry Springs, and Victorville, California. [78] Barstow is the topic of the documentary Barstow, California (2018) by German director Rainer Komers featuring voice overs of Spoon Jackson's poems and ...