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In 1912 they sold Rancho El Escorpión, still 1,110 acres (4.5 km 2), to George Platt. He established a dairy operation on renamed Platt Ranch variously called Ferndale, ‘escorpion’, or Cloverdale Dairy. [25] The land was not incorporated into the city of Los Angeles until 1958, and Rancho El Escorpión remained open and undeveloped until 1960.
Los Cabos (Spanish pronunciation: [los ˈkaβos]) is a municipality located at the southern tip of Mexico's Baja California Peninsula, in the state of Baja California Sur.It encompasses the two towns of Cabo San Lucas and San José del Cabo (the municipal seat) linked by a thirty-two-km Resort Corridor of beach-front properties and championship golf courses.
El Rosario: 1827 José María de Echeandía: José Manuel Machado: 47,702.53 acres (19,305 ha) [note 12] Not before Land Commission. [4] [5] El Descanso, Playas de Rosarito: Municipio de Playas de Rosarito, Baja California, Mexico: La Brea: 1828 José Antonio Carrillo: Antonio Jose Rocha and Nemisio Dominguez 4,439 acres (1,796 ha) 287 SD ...
Spanish; el encino is oak; California has 20 native species of oak tree [20] Rancho El Encino Los Angeles Case no. 392, Southern District of California: Rancho El Escorpión: 1845 Odón Chihuya, Urbano Chari, Manuel [21] Mexico 01.5 (1 1 ⁄ 2 Spanish leagues) 461 Odón Chihuya, Urbano Chari, Manuel 1,109.65 acres (449.06 ha) December 11, 1876: 409
Rancho El Rosario; Rancho El Sur; Rancho Las Encinitas; Rancho Los Encinos; Rancho Entre Napa; Rancho El Escorpión; Rancho Esquon; Rancho Estero Americano; Rancho Ex-Mission la Purísima; Rancho Ex-Mission San Buenaventura; Rancho Ex-Mission San Diego; Rancho Ex-Mission San Fernando; Rancho Ex-Mission San José
[1] [2] Cabo San Lucas and the neighboring San José del Cabo are collectively known as Los Cabos. Together, they form a metropolitan area of 351,111 inhabitants. [1] [2] Rated as one of Mexico's top tourist destinations, [5] Cabo San Lucas is known for its beaches, scuba diving locations, Balnearios, the sea arch El Arco de Cabo San Lucas, and ...
Portion of an 1880 map depicting the western San Fernando Valley, with Rancho El Escorpión highlighted. María del Espíritu Santo Chijulla, born in 1836, was baptized in the San Fernando Mission. Her father Odón was, most likely, one of the forty petitioners who received a grant from governor Micheltorena on May 3, 1843.
In 1845 a Mexican land grant established Rancho El Escorpión here, one of the few granted to Native Americans. The former adobe rancho buildings were located within the current park (adobes existed 1840s-1960s). [10] [11] [12] The rancho was purchased by George Platt in 1912, becoming the Platt Ranch in 1912. [13] [14]