Juana Briones de Miranda (c. 1802 – 1889) was a Californio ranchera, medical practitioner, and merchant, often remembered as the "Founding Mother of San...

recoge una empanada de la salteña" ("go and pick up an empanada from the woman from Salta"). In time most forgot the name Juana Manuela Gorriti, but...

Tía Juana, or Ti Juan was a land grant made to Santiago Arguello on March 4, 1829, by Governor José María de Echeandía. It covered 26,019.53 acres in what...

1,130 acres (4.6 km2) of her rancho to her children, who bore their father’s name, Miranda. The registration for the site of Juana Briones de Miranda...

1834 by Governor José Figueroa to Juana Sanchez de Pacheco. The grant was named after the principal waterway, Arroyo de las Nueces (Walnut Creek), and for...

his living in fur trapping. In 1853 he led the expedition that rescued Juana Maria, the last member of the Nicoleño people, from San Nicolas Island where...

named it Isla Juana ("John's Island") after John, Prince of Asturias. In 1511, the first Spanish settlement was founded by Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar at...

a 2,174-acre (8.80 km2) Mexican land grant in present-day San Diego County, California given in 1845 by Governor Pío Pico to María Juana de los Angeles...

ranchos. In 1829 it granted Santiago Argüello Moraga the 10,000-acre Rancho Tía Juana, which covered parts of what now are San Ysidro and Tijuana; his...

had 6,817 cuerdas (6,621 acres), representing 11.32% of Puerto Rico's state forests. In 1962 the Area Recreacional Doña Juana was added to Toro Negro....

Rosarito region. The 11 league rancho was bounded on the north by Rancho Tía Juana, on the west by the Pacific Ocean and on the south by public lands. In 1830...

The Most Reverend Master and Patron of the convent of Saint John of Acre in Salinas de Añana. Born into the noble Medrano family of La Rioja, Spain, he became...

minimum) for people over 60 years old; the Juana Azurduy voucher (named after the revolutionary Juana Azurduy de Padilla, 1780–1862), which ensures the complete...

Pedro de Ursua as an encomienda in 1550. Juana Rangel de Cuellar founded Cúcuta on June 17, 1733, and donated a further 782 hectares (1,930 acres). The...

Rancho Paraje de Sanchez (also called "Rancho Punta del Monte") was a 6,584-acre (26.64 km2) Mexican land grant in the Salinas Valley, in present day Monterey...

Rancho Los Laureles was a 6,625-acre (26.81 km2) Mexican land grant in present-day Monterey County, California given in 1839 by Governor Juan Alvarado...

nearest point on the mainland coast. It is part of Ventura County. The 14,562 acre (58.93 km2 or 22.753 sq mi) island is currently controlled by the United...

Aguirre owned 51,296 acres in Zavala County, while Antonio Aguirre had 34,552. Seven other people (including two women — Juana Fuentes and Maria Escolastica...

general (d. 1330) John de Burgh, Irish nobleman and heir apparent (d. 1313) John Palaiologos, Byzantine prince and governor (d. 1307) Juana Núñez (Lady of Lara)...

Rancho Bolsa de Chamisal was a 14,335-acre (58.01 km2) Mexican land grant in present-day San Luis Obispo County, California given in 1837 by Governor...

actress) Felisberto Hernández (writer) Julio Herrera y Reissig (poet) Juana de Ibarbourou (poet) Pedro Ipuche Riva (classical composer) Jules Laforgue...

that then became part of Baja California. It was south of the Rancho Tía Juana on the lands near the Misión El Descanso. Granted, March 24, 1829, located...

to Yuma, where Juana worked as a farm laborer and then an assistant to the chancellor of the University of Arizona. Librado and Juana's first child, Rita...

Temiño de Bañuelos, and the founder of Guadalajara, Cristóbal de Oñate. Juan married Doña Juana de Altamirano Castilla y Aguayo. Don Juan Bravo de Medrano...

Estatal de Toro Negro Las Piscinas del Area Recreativa Doña Juana (Doña Juana Pool, Spring Water and Recreative Park) Las Cabañas de Doña Juana (Ribs restaurant)...

Eugenia Vallejo de Emparan recalled Prudenciana visiting the family at Lachryma Montis, Sonoma, in the 1860s. Prudenciana's mother Juana López was descended...

(1519–1520)". Juana I. p. 246. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-74347-9_11. ISBN 978-3-319-74346-2. "El sueño de una constitución comunera". Diario de Burgos. 23 July...

(1919–1999) Jorge Icaza, novelist (1906–1978) Juana Miranda, midwife and professor (1842–1914) Mariana de Jesús de Paredes, Catholic saint (1618–1645) Manuela...

(1926–2016), Raúl Modesto Castro Ruz (born 1931), Juana de la Caridad (Juanita) Castro Ruz (1933–2023), Emma de la Concepción Castro Ruz (born 1935) and Agustina...

Rancho Potrero de Felipe Lugo was a 2,043-acre (8.27 km2) Mexican land grant in present day Los Angeles County, California given in 1845 by Governor Pío...