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Santiago Argüello was born in Monterey, Las Californias Province of New Spain.He was the son of: José Darío Argüello - a soldier, pioneer in Las Californias, founder of Pueblo de Los Angeles (Los Angeles), twice a Spanish colonial governor (of Alta California and of Baja California); and María Ignacia Moraga - a niece of José Joaquín Moraga, the founder of Pueblo de San José ().
Leonardo Argüello Barreto: President of Nicaragua: Ousted by Anastasio Somoza García Nicaragua: Managua Mexico: May 26, 1947 () December 1947 () 7 months Negotiated exile in Mexico: Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre: Peruvian political theorist and politician; founder of APRA: APRA was outlawed by the Peruvian military-led dictatorship
This work has turned out to be controversial, since it had previously been assigned by an open international call to the artist Manuel Ortega in January 1988. [9] Another issue arose when identical copies of the icons were found in a church in Arroyo Hondo, near Santo Domingo. [ 10 ]
Argüello (Spanish pronunciation: [aɾˈɣweʎo]) is a Spanish surname, most commonly associated with the early settlers in the cities of Granada, Nicaragua and of Córdoba, Argentina, as well as throughout Mexico and, in the United States, in what is now the state of California, the so-called Californio Argüellos.
Rancho Melijo was granted to Santiago E. Argüello in 1833.. Rancho Melijo, or Milijo, was a Mexican land grant rancho, named after a local Kumeyaay village. It was later called Rancho La Punta for the location of the Arguello family ranch house, on a point of hills overlooking the south end of San Diego Bay, north of the Otay River and east of where the river entered the south bend of the bay.
Arguello was in charge of the Rancho Otay and Rancho San Antonio Abad for a time and then majordomo and landowner at San Juan Capistrano in 1841. He aided the Americans in the Mexican–American War serving as a captain of a company of Californio cavalry, [ 2 ] suffering a leg wound in a skirmish with Mexican forces outside San Diego. [ 3 ]
On January 2, 1856, Santiago Arguello signed a sworn statement about the legal validity of the Mexican title of the San Pascual Rancheria. At the end of the document he signed it with a statement that indicated that he was the owner and resided at the rancho San Antonio Abad: "Given in my rancho of San Antonio Abad a Ti Juan. S. Arguello" [7]
Rancho Tía Juana, or Ti Juan was a land grant made to Santiago Arguello on March 4, 1829, by Governor José María de Echeandía.It covered 26,019.53 acres in what is now Tijuana in Tijuana Municipality in Baja California, Mexico, and parts of San Ysidro and the Tijuana River Valley, San Diego, in South San Diego in San Diego County, California.