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Today, Mission San Luis Rey de Francia is a working mission, cared for by the people who belong to the parish, with ongoing restoration projects. Mission San Luis Rey has a Museum, Visitors' Center, Retreat Center, [26] gardens with the historic Pepper Tree, and the original small cemetery. [27] [28] [29]
San Luis Rey is an American Viticultural Area (AVA) located in San Diego County, California within the vast 3,251,042 acres (5,080 sq mi) multi-county South Coast AVA. The AVA extends from the coastal town of Oceanside inland to the Merriam Mountains and Moosa Canyon .
San Luis Rey (Spanish for "St. Louis the King") is a neighborhood in Oceanside, California. San Luis Rey is along the San Luis Rey River , 4 miles (6.4 km) northeast of downtown Oceanside. San Luis Rey has a post office with ZIP Code 92068, which opened in 1861.
The dam that forms Lake Henshaw is the only one directly on the river itself. However, tributaries in the river's watershed are extensively dammed. The San Luis Rey River has natural river banks, except for the last 7 miles (11 km) where it flows through a 400-foot-wide (120 m) earthen channel with levees to prevent stormwater from flooding Oceanside.
The Bridge of San Luis Rey is American author Thornton Wilder's second novel. It was first published in 1927 to worldwide acclaim. It was first published in 1927 to worldwide acclaim. The novel won the Pulitzer Prize in 1928, and was the best-selling work of fiction that year.
San Luis Rey College was a Franciscan seminary in Oceanside, California, United States. It was located on the site of Mission San Luis Rey de Francia , one of the California missions founded by the Franciscans in 1798.
The church at Mission San Luis Rey de Francia is a parish of the Roman Catholic Diocese of San Diego. The 2010 United States census [ 22 ] reported that Oceanside had a population of 167,086. The population density was 3,961.8 inhabitants per square mile (1,529.7/km 2 ).
The San Luis Rey Complex is an archaeological pattern representing the latest phase of prehistory in the region occupied at the time of European contact by the Luiseño Indians. Studies by Clement W. Meighan and Delbert L. True in northern San Diego County , California , defined the complex, which is also represented in adjacent portions of ...