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Siutcanga (English: "the place of the oaks"), alternatively spelled Syútkanga, [1] was a Tataviam and Tongva village that was located in what is now Los Encinos State Historic Park near the site of a natural spring. [2]
The park is located near the corner of Balboa and Ventura Boulevards in Encino, California, in the San Fernando Valley. The rancho includes the original nine-room de la Ossa Adobe, the two-story limestone Garnier building, a blacksmith shop, a natural spring, and a pond. The 4.7-acre (1.9 ha) site was established as a California state park in 1949.
Encino Hot Springs are historic thermal springs located at the site of Siutcanga village, a settlement of the Tongva-Kizh people of the area now known as Southern California. It was used by several tribes of Indigenous peoples for thousands of years.
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Ventura Boulevard follows an ancient pre-Columbian trading trail that served the Tataviam and Tongva village of Siutcanga, which is at least 4,000 years old. [1] [2]Due to natural springs in the area, one of the first inhabited areas of the San Fernando Valley was the land around what is now known as Los Encinos State Historic Park, at the corner of Balboa and Ventura boulevards, which was ...
The sites are located in present-day Pasadena and Glendale in Los Angeles County, California. [2] Hahamongna was one of the largest Tongva villages in the greater San Fernando Valley area, along with Cahuenga , Tujunga , and Siutcanga .
The Tongva, who spoke the Tongva language, a Uto-Aztecan or Shoshonean language, had a series of villages in the southern Valley along or near the river, including Totongna (near modern-day Calabasas), Siutcanga (near Encino; means "place of the oak" in Fernandeño) and Kawengna (which the Spanish would write as Cahuenga; it means "place of the ...
The 'Mapping Los Angeles Landscape History' project seeks to illustrate major Los Angeles-area Indigenous settlements.