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Gun Creek Ranch: Bridge River Country: Hat Creek Ranch: Thompson-Bonaparte: 1860s Hungry Valley Ranch: Chilcotin: John Wells` Monte Creek Ranch: Duck's Ranch Thompson Country: 1850s Jacob Duck bought from the original homesteader, a Mexican known only as "Monte" Hewitt Bostock: Moha Ranch: Bridge River: 1870s O'Keefe Ranch: North Okanagan: 1867 ...
Municipio de Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico; San Diego: Tecate: 1829, 1834 José María de Echeandía: Juan Bandini: 4,439 acres (1,796 ha) Not before Land Commission [note 14] Tecate: Tecate Municipality, Baja California, Mexico: Rosa Castilla: 1831 Manuel Victoria: Juan Ballesteros 3,283 acres (1,329 ha) 309 SD East Los Angeles, University ...
Hacienda Atenco, in the Toluca Valley, the oldest operating cattle ranch in the world, renowned for its fighting bulls, founded in 1528. By 1554, there were 60 estancias de ganado mayor in the Valley of Toluca in central Mexico, with more than 150,000 head of cattle and horses. [ 61 ]
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.
Locations of the indigenous peoples of the Baja California Peninsula, highlighting the Guaycura people Misión Santa Gertrudis. Indian peoples encountered by the Spanish missionaries in Baja California (from north to south) were the Kumeyaay, Cocopah, Pai Pai, [3] Kiliwa, [4] Cochimi, Monqui, Guaycura, and Pericu. [5]
Scientists using an aerial remote-sensing method have discovered the largest and oldest-known structure built by the ancient Maya civilization - a colossal rectangular elevated platform built ...
Comprising the upper basin of Hat Creek the area is home to some of the oldest ranches in British Columbia. At the area's northeastern edge, near Marble Canyon , large lignite deposits have spurred interest since first discovered by prospectors during the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush and are the basis of the aborted Hat Creek coal-thermal proposal .
Deborah Szekely, 102, who runs a ranch in Baja California, Mexico, agrees. "What matters is that you're pushing yourself enough to feel it, getting your heart rate up, and breaking a sweat.