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Diseño del Rancho La Ciénega ó Paso de la Tijera (Los Angeles County, California) La Tijera Boulevard and the La Tijera Village neighborhood of Inglewood, California take their names from the Rancho. Rancho La Ciénega ó Paso de la Tijera was a 4,219-acre (17.07 km 2) Mexican land grant in present day Los Angeles County, California given in ...
Rancho Las Ciénegas was a 4,439-acre (17.96 km 2) Mexican land grant in present-day Los Angeles County, California given in 1823 to Francisco Avila by Governor Luis Antonio Argüello. [1] " La Ciénega" is derived from the Spanish word ciénega , which means swamp or marshland and refers to the natural springs and wetlands in the area between ...
La Cienega Boulevard is named after Rancho Las Cienegas Mexican land grant roughly in the region now called "West Los Angeles." The Spanish phrase la ciénaga translates into English as "the swamp " and the area named "Las Ciénegas" was a continual marshland due to the course of the Los Angeles River through that area prior to a massive ...
In 1970, the boundaries of the rancho were described in then-modern terms as "Exposition Blvd. to Slauson Ave. and from La Cienega east to 1st Ave., then a jog back to 4th Ave., midway between Slauson and Exposition. The land was mostly marshy meadows (ciénega is the Spanish word for marsh) and rolling hills and very fertile." [13]
The two square league Rancho Ciénega de los Paicines grant was given to Angel María Castro and his son-in-law José Antonio Rodriguez. Angel María Dolores Castro (1794–??), son of Josef Macario Castro, was a soldier at San Jose and Branciforte and married María Ysabel Butron (daughter of Manuel Josef Butron and Maria Ygnacia Emigdia Higuera)(1796–1848) in 1812.
In the late 1940s the city transportation master plan included building a new north–south freeway, the Laurel Canyon Freeway-SR-170, that would have bisected the Baldwin Hills and park site where La Cienega Boulevard currently crosses the hills. Between 1947 and 1951, the Baldwin Hills Reservoir was built here.
On the upper part of the mural, Baca paints the los ranchos. The ranchos were occupied by Mexican settlers before the 1870s. Some ranchos Baca depicts are Rancho La Cienega, Palos Verdes, Los Verdugos, Santiago de Santa Ana, La Ballona and San Fernando. [18] This land is typically viewed as a symbol of Hispanic California.
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