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The result of the shifting borders is that some of the ranchos in this list, created by pre-1836 governors, are located partially or entirely in a 30-mile-wide sliver of the former Alta California that is now in Mexico rather than in the U.S. state of California. Since those ranchos remained in Mexico, in today's Mexican state of Baja ...
In Alta California (now known as California) and Baja California, ranchos were concessions and land grants made by the Spanish and Mexican governments from 1775 [1] to 1846. The Spanish Concessions of land were made to retired soldiers as an inducement for them to settle in the frontier.
Thomas Russell's 1855 diseño. Rancho Potrero Y Rincon de San Pedro Regalado was one of the smallest Mexican land grants in Alta California. [1] Unlike the huge ranchos comprising tens of thousands of acres, this one was only 500 varas by 600 varas (91.53 acres) [2] of the pasture land (potrero) originally belonging to Mission Santa Cruz.
Alta California ('Upper California'), also known as Nueva California ('New California') among other names, [a] was a province of New Spain formally established in 1804. Along with the Baja California peninsula , it had previously comprised the province of Las Californias , but was made a separate province in 1804 (named Nueva California ). [ 1 ]
Pages in category "Ranchos of California" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 470 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Rancho Santiago de Santa Ana was a 63,414-acre (256.63 km 2) Spanish land concession in present-day Orange County, California, given by Spanish Alta California Governor José Joaquín de Arrillaga in 1810 to Jose Antonio Yorba and his nephew Pablo Peralta.
The era of modern Mexico ruling the Alta California Province, circa 1823–1848. ... California ranchos (42 C, 470 P) Pages in category "Alta California"
Rancho Los Nietos was one of the first, and the largest, Spanish land concession in Alta California. Located in present-day Los Angeles County and Orange County , California . Rancho Los Nietos was awarded to Manuel Nieto in 1784.