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Rancho Los Gatos or Santa Rita was a 4,424-acre (17.90 km 2) Mexican land grant in present-day Monterey County, California given in 1837 by Governor Juan B. Alvarado to José Trinidad Espinoza. [1] The grant was northwest of present-day Salinas , bounded on the north by Espinosa Lake and Rancho Bolsa de las Escorpinas of his brother Salvador ...
The result of the shifting borders is that some of the ranchos in this list, created by pre-1836 governors, are located partially or entirely in a 30-mile-wide sliver of the former Alta California that is now in Mexico rather than in the U.S. state of California. Since those ranchos remained in Mexico, in today's Mexican state of Baja ...
Map of the Rancho El Rio de Santa Clara o la Colonia. Rancho El Rio de Santa Clara o la Colonia was a 44,883-acre (181.64 km 2) Mexican land grant in present-day Ventura County, California, given in 1837 by Governor Juan B. Alvarado to seven people. [1]
Rancho Bolsa del Pajaro was a 5,496-acre (22.24 km 2) Mexican land grant in present-day Santa Cruz County, California given in 1837 by Governor Juan B. Alvarado to Sebastian Rodríguez. [1] The name means "pocket of the Pajaro". Pocket usually refers to land surrounded by slough - in this case the Watsonville Slough.
A number of ranchos remained in whole or in part in the sliver of territory of Alta California left to Mexico by the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which then became part of Baja California. Rancho Tía Juana (partially in San Diego County, California) lost its claim to title to its land in San Diego County but the balance of the rancho was ...
Rancho San Jose was a 15,000-acre (61 km 2) Mexican land grant in northeastern Los Angeles County given in 1837 by Governor Juan Bautista Alvarado to Ygnacio Palomares and Ricardo Véjar. [1] Today, the communities of Pomona , LaVerne , San Dimas , Diamond Bar , Azusa , Covina , Walnut , Glendora , and Claremont are located in whole or part on ...
Rancho Tepusquet was a 8,901-acre (36.02 km 2) Mexican land grant in present-day northern Santa Barbara County, California given in 1837 by Governor Juan B. Alvarado to Tomás Olivera. [1] The grant extended along the Sisquoc River and encompassed present day Sisquoc and Garey , northeast of Los Alamos .
Rancho Calleguas was a 9,998-acre (40.46 km 2) Mexican land grant in present-day Ventura County, California given in 1837 by Governor Juan Alvarado to José Pedro Ruiz. [1]The grant was south of Rancho Las Posas, east of Rancho El Rio de Santa Clara o la Colonia, north of the Rancho Guadalasca, and west of Rancho El Conejo.