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Sepulveda Pass, which passes through the Santa Monica Mountains, connects Los Angeles and the San Fernando Valley, alongside Sepulveda Dam, are both named for the family. Sepulveda, Los Angeles, a neighborhood in the San Fernando Valley, is now commonly known as the North Hills, is named for the family.
Sepúlveda's eldest son, Juan José Sepúlveda (1764–1808), and his fifth son, Francisco Sepúlveda °(1775–1853), became progenitors of two distinguished branches of the family. Sepulveda Boulevard, the longest street in the City and County of Los Angeles, is named for the Sepúlveda family.
Around 1810 Manuel Guttierez, executor of Dominguez's will and de facto owner of his rancho, granted permission to then 17-year-old Jose Dolores Sepulveda to herd livestock in the southwestern reaches of the Rancho San Pedro. This eventually became the basis for the Sepulveda family's contested claim to the Rancho de los Palos Verdes.
The Sepúlveda family was awarded 31,629 acres (128 km 2) known as Rancho de los Palos Verdes that later became the cities of the Palos Verdes Peninsula, as well as portions of Torrance and San Pedro. [5]
Sepulveda Boulevard, a major street in Los Angeles; Sepulveda Dam, a flood control dam in the San Fernando Valley which regulates the Sepulveda Basin; Sepulveda Pass, a pass over the Santa Monica Mountains connecting the Los Angeles Basin and the San Fernando Valley; Sepulveda, California, now called North Hills, a neighborhood within Los Angeles.
Sepulveda Pass (elevation 1,130 feet (344 m)) is a low mountain pass through the Santa Monica Mountains in Los Angeles. It is named after the Sepúlveda family of California , a prominent Californio family that owned the land where the pass lies.
Californios in religion Name Image Birth, death Birthplace Occupation Notes Joseph Sadoc Alemany: 1853–1884 Vic, Catalonia, Spain : Spanish Catholic clergyman : the first Bishop of Monterey (1850–1853) and then as Archbishop of San Francisco (1853–1884) [27]
Ygnacio Sepúlveda, a member of the prominent Sepúlveda family of California, was born on July 1, 1842, in the Pueblo de Los Ángeles, Alta California, Mexico.He was the son of Jose Andres Sepúlveda, grantee of Rancho San Joaquin in present day Orange County, and Francisca Avila.
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