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Los Gatos Memorial Park is the principle cemetery of Los Gatos, California, established in 1889. It occupies some thirty acres, with the main entrance at 2255 Los Gatos-Almaden Road, San Jose, California 95124. [1] By the late 1880s, Los Gatos needed a cemetery, and the matter was considered by the Odd Fellows Lodge.
Los Gatos is Spanish for "The Cats". [10] The name derives from the 1839 Alta California land grant that encompassed the area, which was called La Rinconada de Los Gatos ("The Corner of the Cats"), where the cats refers to the cougars (mountain lions) and bobcats that are indigenous to the foothills in which the town is located.
Some 19th-century maps show Los Gatos Creek and others on the west side of the San Joaquin Valley reaching the North Fork Kings River distributary after it turned south toward Tulare Lake. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] This probably reflected what happened in extremely wet years like 1852, 1861–62 and 1873–74, before the advent of agricultural diversion.
The Mission Oaks campus is a short-stay and outpatient center in Los Gatos. Good Samaritan Health System also operated San Jose Medical Center and Gilroy's South Valley Hospital at the time of the HCA acquisition. Catholic Healthcare West bought South Valley Hospital in 1999 and relocated Saint Louise Hospital in Morgan Hill to the Gilroy location.
The Los Gatos Union School District is a school district in Los Gatos, California, USA. It operates the following schools: School Name Students FTE Teachers
Simple Verses (Spanish: Versos sencillos) is a poetry collection by Cuban writer and independence hero José Martí.Published in October 1891, it was the last of Martí's works to be printed before his death in 1895. [1]
"Orientation of Cats" (Spanish: Orientación de los gatos) is a short story contained in the collection We Love Glenda So Much written by the Argentinian writer Julio Cortázar and published in 1980. [1] The story portrays the relationship between Alana, the narrator (Alana's husband of unknown name), and their cat Osiris.