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The decade of the 1880s is known as the "Southern California Land Boom" because so many people moved to the state. In 1853, pro-Southern Copperheads proposed dividing the state of California to create a new Territory of Colorado (at this time the territory that would become the state of Colorado was named "Jefferson"). San Diego Judge Oliver S ...
Rancho Rincon del Diablo was a 12,653-acre (51.20 km 2) Mexican land grant in present-day San Diego County, California, given in 1843 to Juan Bautista Alvarado. [1] The name means "the devil's corner" or "the devil's lurking place". The rancho lands include the present day city of Escondido and Rincon Del Diablo.
The result of the shifting borders is that some of the ranchos in this list, created by pre-1836 governors, are located partially or entirely in a 30-mile-wide sliver of the former Alta California that is now in Mexico rather than in the U.S. state of California.
Escondido, California, a city and valley near San Diego, ... Rivers. Escondido River (Coahuila), tributary of the Rio Grande in Mexico; Escondido River (Nicaragua)
Rancho Guejito (pronounced wa-hee-to) [1] is a 13,299-acre (54 km 2) Mexican land grant in Southern California, approximately seven miles east of Escondido.The ranch has expanded to a total of 22,359 acres through its purchases of adjacent land. [2]
North County is well known for its affluence, especially in Encinitas, Carlsbad, Del Mar, Rancho Santa Fe, Poway and Solana Beach, where house prices range, on average, above $1,000,000. [1] Cities along the 78 freeway (Oceanside, Vista, San Marcos and Escondido) have more mixed incomes.
Before becoming a state on 8 October 1974, the area was known as the El Territorio Sur de Baja California ("South Territory of Lower California"). It has an area of 73,909 km 2 (28,536 sq mi), or 3.57% of the land mass of Mexico, and occupies the southern half of the Baja California Peninsula , south of the 28th parallel , plus the uninhabited ...
Alta California ('Upper California'), also known as Nueva California ('New California') among other names, [a] was a province of New Spain formally established in 1804. Along with the Baja California peninsula , it had previously comprised the province of Las Californias , but was made a separate province in 1804 (named Nueva California ). [ 1 ]