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Rancho San Antonio de Padua: 1839 Juan Alvarado: Juan Prado Mesa: 3,542 acres (1,433 ha) 275 ND, 354 ND, 366 ND, 368 ND, 378 ND, 383 ND Los Altos: Santa Clara: Refugio: 1839 Juan Alvarado: María Candida, Jacinta, and María de los Angeles Castro 12,147 acres (4,916 ha) 275 SD, 286 SD Santa Cruz: Santa Cruz: San Francisco: 1839 Juan Alvarado ...
A typical scene in the Chihuahua desert. The Sánchez Navarro ranch (1765–1866) in Mexico was the largest privately owned estate or latifundio in Latin America. At its maximum extent, the Sánchez Navarro family owned more than 67,000 square kilometres (16,500,000 acres) of land, an area almost as large as the Republic of Ireland and larger than the American state of West Virginia.
There were two types of estancias: estancias de ganado mayor (cattle and horse estancias) and estancias de ganado menor (sheep & goat estancias). Both types had to be square in shape, going from east to west. Cattle estancias had to be 1 league in length, on each side, or 5000 varas or 1750 hectares, approximately 4400 acres. While sheep and ...
Rancho San Joaquín was granted in 1842 to José Andrés Sepúlveda, a famed Californio vaquero.. Rancho San Joaquin, the combined Rancho Cienega de las Ranas and Rancho Bolsa de San Joaquin, was a 48,803-acre (197.50 km 2) Mexican land grant in the San Joaquin Hills, within present-day Orange County, California.
The origin of this rancho is obscure, but was one of the earliest ranchos established around San Diego. It is mentioned in a report in 1828, with the various ranchos of the San Diego region, Pennasquitos, de la Nación (then the rancho of the Presidio of San Diego), San Ysidro, El Rosario and Temescal. Among them is also mentioned that of San ...
These narrow walkways are what splits up Rancho Nuevo into three neighborhoods with all three having a unique existence. El Cuervo is on the West while on the East, bordering the mountainscape, is called La Remo. Its original name was Santa Elena de la Cruz, but during the early 1900s, during the Mexican Revolution, it was burnt to the ground ...
Rancho Punta de la Concepcion was a 24,992-acre (101.14 km 2) Mexican land grant in the northern Santa Ynez Mountains, in present day Santa Barbara County, California. It was granted by Governor Juan Alvarado in 1837, to Anastacio Carrillo. [ 1 ]
José Noriega purchased Rancho Cañada de los Vaqueros in 1847. Rancho Cañada de los Vaqueros was a 17,760-acre (71.9 km 2) Mexican land grant mostly in present-day eastern Contra Costa County, California, and partially into northeastern Alameda County, California. Los Vaqueros Reservoir, located between Livermore and Brentwood in the Diablo ...