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Conversely, in an area like Veracruz in Mexico, many practitioners attend group rituals and then leave, sometimes never seeing their co-practitioners again. [184] Most ilés are established by a santero or santera who has attracted a following. [187] An apprentice is known as their ahijado (godson) or ahijada (goddaughter). [188]
The U.S. Census Bureau also defines a wider commercial region based on commuting patterns, the Los Angeles–Long Beach, CA Combined Statistical Area (CSA), more commonly known as the Greater Los Angeles Area, with an estimated population of 18,316,743 in 2023. [8] The total land area of the CSA is 33,955 sq. mi (87,945 km 2).
This is a list of notable districts and neighborhoods within the city of Los Angeles in the U.S. state of California, present and past.It includes residential and commercial industrial areas, historic preservation zones, and business-improvement districts, but does not include sales subdivisions, tract names, homeowners associations, and informal names for areas.
Los Angeles, [a] often referred to by its initials L.A., is the most populous city in the U.S. state of California.With an estimated 3,820,914 residents within the city limits as of 2023, [8] it is the second-most populous city in the United States, behind only New York City; it is also the commercial, financial and cultural center of Southern California.
One of the first intellectuals to examine Santería was the lawyer and ethnographer Fernando Ortiz, who discussed it in his 1906 book Los negros brujos (The Black Witchdoctors). [41] He saw it as a barrier to the social integration of Afro-Cubans into broader Cuban society and recommended that it be suppressed. [ 42 ]
Map of racial distribution in Los Angeles, 2010 U.S. Census. Each dot is 25 people: White, Black, Asian, Hispanic, or Other (yellow) The 1990 United States Census and 2000 United States Census found that non-Hispanic whites were becoming a minority in Los Angeles; estimates for the 2010 United States Census results found Latinos to be approximately half (47–49%) of the city's population ...
Los Angeles County, officially the County of Los Angeles and sometimes abbreviated as LA County, is the most populous county in the United States, with 9,663,345 residents estimated in 2023. Its population is greater than that of 40 individual U.S. states .
For list of Roman Catholic churches in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, see: Our Lady of the Angels, for central and West Los Angeles; San Fernando, covering the San Fernando, Santa Clarita and Antelope Valleys. San Gabriel, for East Los Angeles the San Gabriel Valley and the Pomona Valley. San Pedro, for Long Beach and southern Los Angeles County.