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  2. Ranchos of California - Wikipedia

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    Rancho El Rosario, Rancho Cueros de Venado and Rancho Tecate were each granted to citizens of San Diego in the 1820s or 1830s and lay wholly in what is now Baja California as was the Rancho San Antonio Abad, whose origin and title is more obscure. Their titles were never subjected to dispute in U.S. courts.

  3. List of ranchos of California - Wikipedia

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    None of the rancho grants near the former border, however, were made after 1836, so none of them straddled the pre-1836 territorial border. 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 ...

  4. Ranch - Wikipedia

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    Rancho” in Spain is also the: “food prepared for several people who eat in a circle and from the same pot.” [17] It was also defined as a family reunion to talk any particular business. [18] [19] [20] While “ranchero” is defined as the: “steward of a mess”, the steward in charge of preparing the food for the “rancho” or ...

  5. List of place names of Spanish origin in the United States

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    Rancho Mirage, California, resort city ("mirage ranch") Rancho Palos Verdes, California (a shortened version of the Mexican land grant Rancho de los Palos Verdes which means "range of green trees") Rancho Santa Margarita, California (named for Rancho Santa Margarita y Las Flores)

  6. History of Hispanic and Latino Americans in the United States

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    The third settlement was located North of the Rio Grande toward the Nueces River. These Southern ranchers were citizens of Spanish origin from Tamaulipas and Northern Mexico, and identified with both Spanish and Mexican culture. 1821, Agustin de Iturbide launched a drive for Mexican Independence. Texas became a part of the newly independent ...

  7. Vaquero - Wikipedia

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    The term "Ranchero" comes from "Rancho", a term that was given in Mexico, since the 18th century, to the countryside or hamlets where cattle were raised or land was sowed. Spanish priest, Mateo José de Arteaga, in his —" Description of the Diocese of Guadalajara de Indias " (1770)— defined "Rancho" as: " those places in which few people ...

  8. Ranchos of Orange County - Wikipedia

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    Further back in history, California lands were organized into Spanish land grants or "Ranchos". In the case of Orange County, there is record of José Antonio Yorba and Juan Pablo Peralta (nephew) being granted Rancho Santiago de Santa Ana in 1810, year of the commencement of the war of Mexican Independence.

  9. History of California before 1900 - Wikipedia

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    The Spanish encouraged settlement with large land grants called ranchos, where cattle and sheep were raised. The California missions were secularized following Mexican independence, with the passing of the Mexican secularization act of 1833 and the division of the extensive former mission lands into more ranchos.