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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.
The South Bay is a region of the Los Angeles metropolitan area, located in the southwest corner of Los Angeles County. The name stems from its geographic location stretching along the southern shore of Santa Monica Bay. The South Bay contains sixteen cities plus portions of the City of Los Angeles and unincorporated portions of the county. The ...
Milpitas (Spanish for ' little milpas ' or little cornfields) is a city in Santa Clara County, California, part of Silicon Valley and the broader San Francisco Bay Area. Located on the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay , it is bordered by San Jose to the south, Fremont to the north, and the Coyote Creek and Calaveras Reservoir to the west.
SR 82 (El Camino Real) – Mountain View, Los Altos: Western terminus of SR 237 West end of freeway: R0.38: 1A: SR 85 north to US 101 north – San Francisco: Eastbound exit and westbound entrance; SR 85 south exit 22A: R0.38: 1B: SR 85 south to SR 82 south – Los Gatos, Santa Cruz: Westbound exit and eastbound entrance; SR 85 north exit 22C ...
US 101 south – Los Angeles: Access to US 101 north via exit 1B; south end of SR 85; US 101 north exit 377A, south exit 377B: ♦: US 101 south – Los Angeles: HOV access only; southbound exit and northbound entrance: 0.18: 0.29: 1B: Bernal Road to US 101 north – San Francisco: Southbound exit and northbound entrance: 0.79: 1.27: 1C: Great ...
The Los Gatos Historic Commercial District of Los Gatos, Santa Clara County, California is a designated U.S. Historic District area of the city. The commercial district comprises a collection of commercial buildings that is bounded by both sides of West Main Street, North Santa Cruz Avenue, and University Avenue.
Map of the Costanoan languages and major villages. Over 50 villages and tribes of the Ohlone (also known as Costanoan) Native American people have been identified as existing in Northern California circa 1769 in the regions of the San Francisco Peninsula, Santa Clara Valley, East Bay, Santa Cruz Mountains, Monterey Bay and Salinas Valley.
Redwood Estates is a rural unincorporated community along State Route 17 in the coastal Santa Cruz Mountains in Los Gatos, California, United States. The Census Bureau includes it in a census-designated place named Lexington Hills. It lies inside the confines of Santa Clara County.