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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.
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 ...
[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 ...
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.
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.
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 .
Las Posadas is a novenario (an extended devotional prayer). It is celebrated chiefly in Latin America, El Salvador, Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and by Latin Americans in the United States. [1] [2] It is typically celebrated each year between December 16 and December 24. [1]
Las Positas College began as an extension program of Chabot College in 1963, [3] offering 24 classes and enrolling 810 students at three sites, including Livermore High School. By 1965, the program had expanded to Granada High School in Livermore and subsequently offered classes at Amador and Dublin High Schools as well.