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La Puente (Spanish for "The Bridge") is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. The city had a population of 39,816 at the 2010 census and is approximately 20 miles (32 km) east of downtown Los Angeles .
Each city has a mayor and a city council. ... La Cañada Flintridge ... La Habra Heights: December 4, 1978: 5,682 La Mirada: March 23, 1960: 48,008 La Puente: August ...
City Terrace: 50,281 Covina Islands 19,131 Del Aire: ... East La Mirada 9,668 East Los Angeles: ... West Puente Valley: 23,972 West Rancho Dominguez:
The city has the highest property tax rate in Los Angeles County, at 1.92%. In addition, there is a revenue-generating hillside hotel resort, known as the Pacific Palms Resort (formerly the Industry Hills Sheraton), which is almost completely surrounded by the city of La Puente but actually located in the City of Industry.
To cross the river, the expedition built a rough bridge, which gave the name La Puente to today's San Gabriel Valley city, and hills to the south are called the Puente Hills. A few years later, a mission was established near the river crossing. Mission San Gabriel Arcángel c. 1900. The trail in the foreground is part of the original El Camino ...
Diseño of Rancho La Puente. Rancho La Puente was a ranch in the southern San Gabriel Valley that measured just under 49,000 acres (200 km 2 ), and remained intact from its establishment in the late 1700s as an outpost of Mission San Gabriel until about 1870. By modern landmarks, the ranch extended from San Gabriel River on the west to just ...