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Rancho Las Positas y La Calera was a 3,282-acre (13.28 km 2) Mexican land grant in present-day Santa Barbara County, California.The grant consisted of two parts:- "La Calera" (The Lime Kiln) given in 1843 by Governor Manuel Micheltorena to Narciso Fabregat, and "Las Positas" (Spanish for "little pools", the diminutive form of "las pozas" - probably referring to water from Veronica Springs ...
Rancho Las Positas was a 8,880-acre (35.9 km 2) Mexican land grant in present-day Alameda County, California given in 1839 by governor Juan Alvarado to Robert Livermore and José Noriega. [1] Las Positas means "little watering holes" in Spanish.
Elings Park (formerly Las Positas Friendship Park) is a 230-acre (0.93 km 2) non-profit park located in Santa Barbara, California east of Las Positas Road and south of U.S. Highway 101.
[citation needed] In 1839, the 48,000-acre (19,000 ha) Rancho Las Positas grant, which includes most of Livermore, was made to ranchers Robert Livermore and Jose Noriega. [ 18 ] [ 19 ] In the early 1840s Livermore moved his family from the Sunol Valley to the Rancho Las Positas grant, as the second non-native family to settle in the Livermore ...
The Chabot–Las Positas Community College District is a public school district based in Alameda County, California, in the United States. Colleges in the district include Chabot College in Hayward , and Las Positas College in Livermore .
Arroyo Seco is an 11.7-mile-long (18.8 km) [2] watercourse in Alameda County, California, that traverses through the city of Livermore, emptying into Arroyo Las Positas. Arroyo Seco means "dry stream" in Spanish .
Arroyo Las Positas is a 7.4-mile-long (11.9 km) [2] westward-flowing watercourse in Alameda County, California, which begins at the confluence of Arroyo Seco and Cayetano Creek north of Livermore, and empties into Arroyo Mocho in Dublin, California.
Las Positas College has since developed into a fully accredited comprehensive institution. [5] In 1988, LPC was designated by the board of governors to be an independent college. It received full accreditation on January 7, 1991, from the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges of the Western Association of Schools and Colleges ...