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Mission District is center of San Francisco's Latino community. Ranchos owned by Spanish-Mexican families such as the Valenciano, Guerrero, Dolores, Bernal, Noé and De Haro continued in the area, separated from the town of Yerba Buena, later renamed San Francisco (centered around Portsmouth Square) by a two-mile wooden plank road (later paved and renamed Mission Street).
Juan Bautista de Anza established the Presidio of San Francisco for the Spanish Empire in 1776. Mission San Francisco de Asís was founded by Padre Francisco Palóu on October 9, 1776. The Spanish Empire claimed San Francisco as part of Las Californias, a province of the Viceroyalty of New Spain.
The Spanish Journal: Wisconsin Milwaukee 2012 El Tecolote (newspaper) California San Francisco El Tiempo Latino: Washington, D.C. Washington, D.C. Vida Latina: Georgia Atlanta Vision Hispana Newspaper: California: Alameda: 2003 La Voz: Arizona Phoenix [3] 2000 La Voz Bilingüe: Colorado: Thornton: 1974 La Voz de Houston: Texas Houston 1979 La ...
Yerba Buena was the first civilian pueblo in San Francisco, which had previously only had indigenous, missionary, and military settlements, and was originally intended as a trading post for ships visiting San Francisco Bay. The settlement was arranged in the Spanish style around a plaza that remains as the present day Portsmouth Square.
El Tecolote is a free bilingual, biweekly newspaper published by the nonprofit Acción Latina, and based in San Francisco that covers the Mission District and the surrounding area for the Latino community. [1] It is the longest running bilingual newspaper that is printed in both English and Spanish in California. [2]
In 1769 Spain occupied the San Francisco area and by 1776 had established the area's first European settlement, with a mission and a presidio.To protect against encroachment by the British and Russians, Spain selected Punta del Cantil Blanco, a promontory with a high white cliff (cantil blanco) located at the narrowest part of the bay's entrance, [4] to construct a fortification.
Population Speaking Spanish at Home (in thousands) ... San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward, CA 4,480,888 15.5701 697 Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA 4,342,861 35.0667 1522
Second asistencia of Mission San Francisco de Asís. A granary was built south of San Mateo Creek in 1793-94 before being destroyed during an 1808 earthquake. A new adobe granary was built north of the creek before being demolished in 1868.