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Location: Santa Cruz Mountains Santa Clara County, California: Coordinates: 1]: Type: Reservoir: Primary inflows: Los Gatos Creek: Primary outflows: Los Gatos Creek: Catchment area: 27.7 sq mi (72 km 2) [2]: Basin countries: United States: Surface area: 450 acres (1.8 km 2): Water volume: 21,430 acre⋅ft (26,430,000 m 3): Surface elevation: 666 ft (203 m) [1]: References: U.S. Geological ...
As required by the Land Act of 1851, a claim for Rancho Rinconada de Los Gatos was filed with the Public Land Commission in 1852, [5] [6] and the grant was patented to Sebastian Peralta and José Hernandez in 1860. [7] Approximately 2,000 acres (8.1 km 2) were sold to James Alexander Forbes (1805–1881) in 1853, whereupon he built Forbes Mill ...
The main segment of the Los Gatos Creek Trail is a 9.7-mile (15.6 km) pedestrian and bicycle trail that runs through western Santa Clara County in California. It runs from Lexington Reservoir in Los Gatos, California through Campbell, California to Meridian Avenue in San Jose, California alongside Los Gatos Creek .
Los Gatos is Spanish for "The Cats". [10] The name derives from the 1839 Alta California land grant that encompassed the area, which was called La Rinconada de Los Gatos ("The Corner of the Cats"), where the cats refers to the cougars (mountain lions) and bobcats that are indigenous to the foothills in which the town is located.
Woody Guthrie. Memorial stone for the victims of the crash. The genesis of "Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)" reportedly occurred when Woody Guthrie was struck by the fact that radio and newspaper coverage of the Los Gatos plane crash did not give the victims' names, but instead referred to them merely as "deportees". [2]
The Abrigo (shelter) of Matacabras, located at the foot of the northwest face of the Peña de los Enamorados, is closely linked with the Dolmen of Menga whose central axis points directly to it. The tomb is orientated to the northeast, north of the sunrise on the summer solstice, and is the only known tomb so oriented in Europe in this cultural ...
There is an overground dolmen with double length up to 350 cm. Fragments of burial urns are also available in the region near the dolmens. This indicates that the dolmens with 70–90 cm height were used for burial of the remains of people of high social status. Burial urns were used for the burial of the remains of commoners.
The city of Mdina occupies the tip of a plateau located on high ground in the northern part of the island of Malta, far away from the sea.The site has been inhabited since prehistory, and by the Bronze Age it was a place of refuge since it was naturally defensible. [2]