Rancho Potrero de los Cerritos was a 10,610-acre (42.9 km2) Mexican land grant in present day Alameda County, California given in 1844 by Governor Manuel Micheltorena to Augustin Alviso and Tomás Pacheco.[1] The name means "pasture of the little hills" and included the Coyote Hills. The three square league grant, part of former Mission San José lands, encompassed present day Alvarado.[2][3]
^Ogden Hoffman, 1862, Reports of Land Cases Determined in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, Numa Hubert, San Francisco
^Diseño del Rancho Potrero de los Cerritos
^U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Rancho Potrero de los Cerritos
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per capita income and a population of over 50,000 were in Los Angeles County, and East Los Angeles has the highest population among them (127,610). California...
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