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The Los Angeles River ( Spanish: Río de Los Ángeles ), historically known as Paayme Paxaayt 'West River' by the Tongva and the Río Porciúncula 'Porciúncula River' by the Spanish, is a major river in Los Angeles County, California. Its headwaters are in the Simi Hills and Santa Susana Mountains, and it flows nearly 51 miles (82 km) from ...
The history of the Los Angeles River is, in many ways, the history of the city. It flowed here long before Europeans settlers arrived in the 18 th Century. In about 5000 BC, the indigenous Tongva and Chumash people lived by the river’s banks and took their water and life from its waters. The Tongva tribe created a movable village, known as ...
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Coordinates: 34°03′39″N 118°17′54″W. The Archdiocese of Los Angeles ( Latin: Archidiœcesis Angelorum in California, Spanish: Arquidiócesis de Los Ángeles) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or archdiocese of the Catholic Church located in the southern portion of the U.S. state of California.
The Latin Church ( Latin: Ecclesia Latina) is the largest autonomous ( sui iuris) particular church within the Catholic Church, whose members constitute the vast majority of the 1.3 billion Catholics. The Latin Church is one of 24 churches sui iuris in full communion with the pope; the other 23 are collectively referred to as the Eastern ...
The LA River: Past, Present & Future The Los Angeles River - or Paayme Paxaayt to indigenous peoples - was once the centerpiece of a flourishing Los Angeles region. When Spanish colonizers initially encountered the landscape, they described it as a riot of wildflowers, wild grapes, sage, rose bushes, and sycamore trees.
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The parish church in the Los Angeles Plaza Historic District was founded as La Iglesia de Nuestra Señora la Reina de Los Ángeles in 1814 and dedicated in 1822. Our Lady Queen of Angels Catholic Church, also known as La Placita Church , was one of the first three sites designated as Historic-Cultural Monuments by the City of Los Angeles in ...
Taylor Yard is uniquely connected to the early history of Los Angeles. Home for centuries to the Tongva Indians, it is, by most accounts, where Los Angeles was dubbed "Los Angeles." It is the site described in the first recorded written words about Los Angeles, the very site where the Portola expedition spent the night August 2, 1769, after ...
