Rancho Los Tularcitos
Rancho Los Tularcitos | |
|---|---|
| Coordinates: 37°27′36″N 121°54′0″W / 37.46000°N 121.90000°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | California |
| Settled | 1821 |
| Area | |
• Total | 4,394 acres (1,778 ha) |
Rancho Los Tularcitos was a 4,394-acre (17.78 km2) Spanish land concession in present day Santa Clara County, California given in 1821 to José Loreto Higuera by the last Spanish governor of Alta California, Pablo Vicente de Solá. The land grant was confirmed by Mexican Governor Juan Alvarado in 1839. The name means "place of the little Tule thickets". The rancho, in what is today central and northern Milpitas, extended from the confluence of Calera and Penitencia Creeks in the northwest to a large live oak tree that marked its southeastern corner. South of Rancho Los Tularcitos was the land of the Pueblo of San José.