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1656614, 2411787. Website. www .sangabrielcity .com. San Gabriel ( Spanish for "St. Gabriel") is a city located in the San Gabriel Valley of Los Angeles County, California. At the 2010 census, the population was 39,718. San Gabriel was founded by the Spanish in 1771, when Mission San Gabriel Arcángel was established by Saint Junípero Serra.
The San Gabriel Valley ( Spanish: Valle de San Gabriel ), often referred to by its initials as SGV, is one of the principal valleys of Southern California, with the city of Los Angeles directly bordering it to the west, and occupying the vast majority of the southeastern part of Los Angeles County. Surrounding landforms and other features ...
Mission San Gabriel Arcángel (Spanish: Misión de San Gabriel Arcángel) is a Californian mission and historic landmark in San Gabriel, California. It was founded by the Spanish Empire on "The Feast of the Birth of Mary ," September 8, 1771, as the fourth of what would become twenty-one Spanish missions in California . [10]
The San Gabriel Mountains ( Spanish: Sierra de San Gabriel) comprise a mountain range located in northern Los Angeles County and western San Bernardino County, California, United States. [1] The mountain range is part of the Transverse Ranges and lies between the Los Angeles Basin and the Mojave Desert, with Interstate 5 to the west and ...
The San Gabriel River is a mostly- urban waterway flowing 58 miles (93 km) [2] southward through Los Angeles and Orange Counties, California, in the United States. It is the central of three major rivers draining the Greater Los Angeles Area, the others being the Los Angeles River and Santa Ana River.
San Bernardino National Forest. The San Bernardino National Forest is a United States National Forest in Southern California encompassing 823,816 acres (3,333.87 km 2) of which 677,982 acres (2,743.70 km 2) are federal. [1] The forest is made up of two main divisions, the eastern portion of the San Gabriel Mountains and the San Bernardino ...
91775. Area code. 626. FIPS code. 06-21096. GNIS feature ID. 1669849. East San Gabriel is a census-designated place (CDP) in Los Angeles County, California, United States. The population was 14,874 at the 2010 census, up from 14,512 at the 2000 census.
San Gabriel Dam is a rock-fill dam on the San Gabriel River in Los Angeles County, California, within the Angeles National Forest.Completed in 1939, the dam impounds the main stem of the San Gabriel River about 2.5 miles (4.0 km) downstream from the confluence of the river's East and West Forks, which drain a large portion of the San Gabriel Mountains.