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Rancho Boca de la Cañada del Pinole was a 13,316-acre (53.89 km 2) Mexican land grant in present-day Contra Costa County, California given in 1842 by Governor Juan Alvarado to María Manuela Valencia. [1] The name means "Mouth of the Pinole Valley" in Spanish. The rancho located between present-day Martinez, Pleasant Hill, Orinda, and ...
Pinole is around the center, and through the partial cloverleaf interchange of Richmond Parkway and Interstate 80 at lower right. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 13.6 square miles (35 km 2). 5.3 square miles (14 km 2) of it is land, and 8.3 square miles (21 km 2) of it (60.79%) is water.
The grant's boundaries were unusually complicated, as they were to be determined by the boundaries of the surrounding grants: San Antonio, San Pablo, El Pinole, Boca de la Cañada del Pinole, Acalanes, and La Laguna de los Palos Colorados. In this sense, the rancho was el sobrante, the remaining area. Legal disputes concerning the borders and ...
The recorded history of Pinole, California dates back to the early 1700s when a Spanish commandant, Don Pedro Fages, led an exploration through the Contra Costa shoreline of California. [11] With a small band of soldiers and an Indian guide, Don Pedro Fages left Monterey and traveled northward until he reached the area known today as Pinole. [11]
"California in 1846" map shows geographic distribution of Spanish and Mexican land grants Mexican land grants of Tehama County, California (Bureau of Land Management map, 1997) These California land grants were made by Spanish (1784–1821) and Mexican (1822–1846) authorities of Las Californias and Alta California to private individuals ...
The headwaters of Pinole Creek are in the Briones Hills on Costa Peak, within the western area of Briones Regional Park. It flows 10 miles (16 km) westerly through the towns of Pinole and El Sobrante, [3] to its river mouth at the Chelsea Wetlands in Hercules on San Pablo Bay. Its mouth is 4 miles (6.4 km) east of Point Pinole. [4]
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