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[10] [11] Mission Point and its environs are popular mountain biking and hiking areas. The view from the top of Mission Point (called "Mission Peak" by many residents), the highest point in Granada Hills, is striking, taking in most of the San Fernando Valley. In clear weather, one can see the Pacific Ocean and Downtown Los Angeles.
The earliest record of a person from Cahuenga in the mission baptismal registers is from 1798. [9] People associated with Cahuenga or similar village names are "listed 20 times between 1778–1815, in the San Gabriel Mission baptismal register and 62 times (1800–1806) in the San Fernando Mission register."
Bull Creek is a 9.6-mile-long (15.4 km) [1] tributary of the Los Angeles River in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles County, California. The creek rises in Bull Canyon on Oat Mountain . After leaving its canyon, it is encased in a concrete flood control channel , wherein it runs south from Granada Hills though North Hills , Van Nuys ...
San Fernando (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈsaɱ feɾˈnando], "Saint Ferdinand") is a town in the province of Cádiz, Spain. It is home to more than 97,500 inhabitants. The city also uses the name "La Isla" (The Island). The people from San Fernando are locally known as "Cañaíllas" or "Isleños".
The mission was re-established in the same area on July 5, 1716, by the Domingo Ramón-St. Denis expedition. [3] It was named as Nuestro Padre San Francisco de los Tejas. The new mission had to be abandoned in 1719 because of conflict between Spain and France. The mission was tried once more on August 5, 1721, as San Francisco de los Neches.
Mission San Fernando Velicatá (Spanish: Misión San Fernando Rey de España de Velicatá) was a Spanish mission located about 56 km (35 mi) southeast of El Rosario in Baja California, Mexico. The mission was founded in 1769 by Franciscan missionary Junípero Serra and was the only mission founded by Franciscan missionaries in what is now Baja ...
The East San Fernando Valley Light Rail Transit Project (formerly the East San Fernando Valley Transit Corridor Project) is a transit project constructing a light rail line on the east side of Los Angeles's San Fernando Valley, running on a north–south route along Van Nuys Boulevard and San Fernando Road. [2]
The 2010 San Fernando massacre, also known as the first massacre of San Fernando, [2] was the mass murder of 72 undocumented immigrants by the Los Zetas drug cartel in the village of El Huizachal in the municipality of San Fernando, Tamaulipas, Mexico. The 72 killed—58 men and 14 women—were mainly from Central and South America, and they ...