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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 .
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
Situated at the base of the Verdugo Mountains, Sun Valley is prone to flash floods, and one such flood on Sunday, February 20, 2005 at 22:37 (10:37 p.m. PST) destroyed a portion of the 8000 block of Tujunga Avenue and killed a Los Angeles City civil engineer when a sinkhole 30 feet (9.1 m) deep opened. [5]
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.
Three wildfires ignited in Palmdale, Tujunga and Angeles National Forest. A heat wave is expected to build over Southern California through the weekend. Multiple fires break out in L.A. County ...
Big Tujunga Creek is a major stream in Los Angeles County in the U.S. state of California.From its headwaters high in the San Gabriel Mountains, it flows generally southwest for 28.8 miles (46.3 km), [4] joining Little Tujunga Creek to form the Tujunga Wash near Pacoima.
Tujunga Wash consists of two forks, both beginning in the San Gabriel Mountains. The upper portion of Big Tujunga Wash is called Tujunga Creek, or Big Tujunga Creek. It travels roughly east to west, and several tributaries from the north and south join it as it flows to Big Tujunga Reservoir, formed by Big Tujunga Dam. Below the dam, the stream ...