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The abundant artesian spring water discovered at Las Vegas shortened the Spanish Trail to Los Angeles. About 14 years later after Rivera's discovery, John C. Frémont led an expedition west and camped at Las Vegas Springs on May 13, 1844. The Rafael Rivera Park, Community Center and Rafael Rivera, a street, are named after him.
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Armijo's group blazed a trade route using a network of indigenous routes, incorporating parts of Jedediah Smith's routes of 1826 and 1827, and Rafael Rivera's route of 1828 to the San Gabriel Mission through the Mojave along the Mojave River. Armijo documented his route in a report to the governor, and this was published by the Mexican ...
There's no better way to truly kick back and relax than floating down a lazy river in the tropics.
The film was scored by Carlos Rafael Rivera. [5] The screenplay is credited to Sean Kennedy Moore, Joe Barnathan, Marcus Rinehart, and Brendan Bellomo , with Michael Dougherty , Timothy J. Sexton, and Zach Shields receiving "additional literary material" credit.
The name Las Vegas—Spanish for "the meadows"—was given to the area in 1829 by Rafael Rivera, a member of the Spanish explorer Antonio Armijo trading party that was traveling to Los Angeles, and stopped for water there on the Old Spanish Trail from New Mexico.
A Southern Florida high school teacher has been arrested for allegedly molesting and performing a sex act on a student in his classroom. Piper High School teacher Rafael Guzman, 37, has been ...
Pico Rivera Historical Museum Pico Rivera: San Gabriel Valley: Local history: information, housed in an 1887 train depot, operated by the Pico Rivera History and Heritage Society Pio Pico State Historic Park: Whittier: San Gabriel Valley: Historic house: Adobe home of Pío Pico, the last Governor of Alta California under Mexican Rule