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The history of Los Angeles began in 1781 when 44 settlers from central New Spain (modern Mexico) established a permanent settlement in what is now Downtown Los Angeles, as instructed by Spanish Governor of Las Californias, Felipe de Neve, and authorized by Viceroy Antonio María de Bucareli.
LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes, also called LA Plaza, is a Mexican-American museum and cultural center in Los Angeles, California, USA that opened in April 2011. [1] Housed in two historic buildings in downtown Los Angeles it includes a museum, a 30,000-square-foot outdoor space with a performance stage, an edible garden, and LA Cocina de Gloria Molina, a teaching kitchen and flexible event space.
Rancho La Ballona was a 13,920-acre (56.3 km 2) Mexican land grant in the present-day Westside region of Los Angeles County, Southern California.. The rancho was confirmed by Alta California Governor Juan Alvarado in 1839, to Ygnacio and Augustin Machado and Felipe and Tomas Talamantes.
Heaviest concentrations are in East Los Angeles, Echo Park/Silver Lake, South Los Angeles, and San Pedro/Harbor City/Wilmington. As of 2010, about 2.5 million residents of the Greater Los Angeles area are of Mexican American origin/heritage. [7] As of 1996 Mexican-Americans make up about 80% of the Latino population in the Los Angeles area. [8]
Los Angeles, [a] often referred to by its initials L.A., is the most populous city in the U.S. state of California.With an estimated 3,820,914 residents within the city limits as of 2023, [8] it is the second-most populous city in the United States, behind only New York City; it is also the commercial, financial and cultural center of Southern California.
Agricultural and economic opportunity spurred millions of migrants toward Los Angeles. Coming from both Mexico and the eastern United States, migrants drove the population of Los Angeles from 50,000 to 1.2 million between 1890 and 1930. [5] Mexican tamale wagons were some of the first to capitalize on the sudden influx in population.
Los Angeles County was one of the original counties established at the time of statehood. The eastern part of the original county was set aside in 1853 as San Bernardino County . In 1866 Kern County was established with land that had previously been assigned to Tulare and Los Angeles Counties.
Placita Dolores, where from 1888 until the 1950s, Los Angeles Street used to run a short block north of the Plaza to terminate at Alameda St. When it was extended past the Plaza in 1888, [35] Los Angeles Street terminated one short block north of the Plaza at Alameda Street. Now, Los Angeles Street turns east at the north side of the Plaza to ...