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Post-colonial: Spanish place names that have no history of being used during the colonial period for the place in question or for nearby related places. (Ex: Lake Buena Vista, Florida, named in 1969 after a street in Burbank, California) Non-Spanish: Place names originating from non-Spaniards or in non-historically Spanish areas.
San Jose: Santa Clara: Pastoria de las Borregas: 1842 Juan Alvarado: Francisco Estrada 9,066 acres (3,669 ha) 84 ND and 97 ND Sunnyvale, Mountain View: Santa Clara: San Vicente: 1842 Juan Alvarado: José de los Reyes Berreyesa: 4,438 acres (1,796 ha) 363 ND San Jose: Santa Clara: Las Uvas: 1842 Juan Alvarado: Lorenzo Pineda 11,080 acres (4,484 ...
Rancho Los Tularcitos was a 4,394-acre (17.78 km 2) Spanish land concession in present day Santa Clara County, California given in 1821 to José Loreto Higuera by the last Spanish governor of Alta California, Pablo Vicente de Solá. The land grant was confirmed by Mexican Governor Juan Alvarado in 1839. [1]
Archipelago of San Andrés, Providencia and Santa Catalina (4 C, 2 P) Arizona (25 C, ... Colony of Santo Domingo ... Pages in category "Former Spanish colonies"
Mission Santa Clara was 3 miles (5 km) from the original San Jose pueblo site in neighboring Santa Clara. Mission San José was not founded until 1797, about 20 miles (30 km) north of San Jose in what is now Fremont. The Los Angeles Pobladores ("villagers") is the name given to the 44 original Sonorans—22 adults and 22 children—who settled ...
Spanish men and women settled in greatest numbers where there were dense indigenous populations and the existence of valuable resources for extraction. [1] The Spanish Empire claimed jurisdiction over the New World in the Caribbean and North and South America, with the exception of Brazil, ceded to Portugal by the Treaty of Tordesillas. Other ...
Rancho Potrero de Santa Clara was a 1,939-acre (7.85 km 2) Mexican land grant in present day Santa Clara County, California given in 1844 by Governor Manuel Micheltorena to James Alexander Forbes. [2] The name refers to the "pasture lands" of Santa Clara Mission.
The Criollo elites (colonial-born Spaniards) and mestizo and mulatto militia (of mixed Indigenous-Spanish and African-Spanish descent) provided only minimal protection, often assisted by more influential allies with vested interests in maintaining the balance of power and safeguarding the Spanish Empire from falling into enemy hands.