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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. [2] [3]
Tongva Sacred Springs (pictured March 2023). Tovaangar (Tongva: "the world") [1] [2] refers to the Tongva world or homelands. It includes the greater area of the Los Angeles Basin, including the San Gabriel Valley, San Fernando Valley, northern Orange County, parts of San Bernardino County and Riverside County, and the southern Channel Islands, including San Nicholas, Santa Catalina, Santa ...
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In 1874, California State Senator Charles Maclay (for whom Maclay Street in San Fernando is named) acquired 56,000 acres (230 km 2) of land across the San Fernando Valley. The area extended from Sunland Blvd. all the way west to the Chatsworth Hills. East of Sunland was Rancho San Rafael, a large land grant to José María Verdugo by the ...
Other peaks include Tongva Peak (2,656 feet), recently named in honor of the Tongva (Gabrielino) people, the original inhabitants of much of the Los Angeles Basin, Santa Monica Mountains, and San Gabriel Valley areas. Other informally named peaks are Mount La Tuna on the north end and Mount Thom on the south end of the range.
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; Big Tujunga Creek, which flows to the Tujunga Wash
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.