Rancho Los Coyotes was a 48,806-acre (197.51 km2) 1834Mexican land grant resulting from the partition of theRancho Los Nietos grant, in present-day southeasternLos Angeles County and northwesternOrange County,California. Therancho lands include the present-day cities ofCerritos,La Mirada,Artesia,Stanton, andBuena Park.[1][2]
At the request ofManuel Nieto's heirs, GovernorJosé Figueroa in 1834 officially declared the 167,000-acre (680 km2)Rancho Los Nietos grant underMexican rule and ordered its partition into five smaller ranchos:Las Bolsas,Los Alamitos,Los Cerritos, Los Coyotes, andSanta Gertrudes. Juan José Nieto (eldest son of Manuel Nieto) received Los Coyotes.[3] In 1840, Juan José Nieto sold Rancho Los Coyotes to Juan Bautista Leandry, an Italian immigrant who settled in California in 1827 and was married to Maria Francisca Uribe,[4] who renamed it "La Buena Esperanza," – The Good Hope – but it was still generally known as Los Coyotes.
Leandry died in 1842, and his widow, Maria Francisca Uribe, married Francisco O'Campo.[5]
With thecession of California to the United States following theMexican–American War, the 1848Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo provided that the land grants would be honored. As required by the Land Act of 1851, a claim for Rancho Los Coyotes was filed with thePublic Land Commission in 1852,[6][7] and the grant waspatented toAndrés Pico and Francisca Uribe de O'Campo in 1875.[8]
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