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Tujunga can refer to a few different things: Tujunga, the Tongva village; Tujunga, a genus of picture-winged fly; Sunland-Tujunga, Los Angeles, a neighborhood of the San Fernando Valley; Rancho Tujunga, a Mexican land grant that became Sunland and Tujunga, LA; Tujunga Wash, a tributary of the Los Angeles River
Sunland-Tujunga / t ə ˈ h ʌ ŋ ɡ ə / is a Los Angeles city neighborhood within the Crescenta Valley and Verdugo Mountains. [1] Sunland and Tujunga began as separate settlements and today are linked through a single police station, branch library, neighborhood council, chamber of commerce, city council district, and high school. [2]
Tuyunga or Tujunga (Tongva: Tuhuunga, “place of the old woman”) [1] is a former Tongva (Fernandeño) village now located at Sunland-Tujunga, Los Angeles in Los Angeles County, California. The village was located near the original Rancho Los Encinos that became the Mission San Fernando Rey de España in the San Fernando Valley .
Rancho Tujunga was a 6,661-acre (26.96 km 2) Mexican land grant in the western Crescenta Valley and northeastern San Fernando Valley, in present-day Los Angeles County, California. It was granted in 1840 by Mexican governor Juan Alvarado to Francisco Lopez and Pedro Lopez.
Pacoima = from the root word Pako enter, meaning the entrance [citation needed] Tujunga = from the root word old woman tux'uu [citation needed] Tujunga means Mountains of Health according to long-time residents. Azusa = from the word -shuuk 'Ashuuksanga = his grandmother [citation needed]
Tujunga neighborhood Tujunga Avenue: From the Tongva term Tuyunga, meaning mountain range from tu'xuu = old woman tu'xuunga = place of the old woman [1] Van Nuys neighborhood Van Nuys Boulevard: Isaac Newton Van Nuys, businessman, banker and real estate developer [1] Vignes Street: Jean Louis Vignes, French settler in Los Angeles who planted ...
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.
It is on the concrete sides of the Tujunga Wash, a tributary of the Los Angeles River. [6] The mural is 13 feet (4.0 m) high, painted directly on concrete. [7] With a length of 2,754 feet (840 m) (covering over 6 city blocks), [8] it is credited as one of the longest murals in the world. [1] [9]