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Photography Gallery - El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historic Monument

El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historic Monument is where the great City of Los Angeles began. On Wednesday, August 2, 1769, the Portola expedition, which was the first European land expedition through California, while marching to Monterey Bay to establish a Spanish claim to Alta California, camped along a River. They named the river El Rio de Nuestra Senora la Reina de Los Angeles de la Porciuncula in recognition of the Jubilee of Our Lady of Los Angeles of the Porciuncula which was observed the previous day. Father Juan Crespi, a Franciscan priest accompanying the expidition, described in his journal a "beautiful river from the northwest" located at "34 degrees 10 minutes." In 1781, a new settlement was established along that river and came to be known as El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciúncula or The Town of Our Lady the Queen of Angels of the Little Portion, although its official name was simply El Pueblo de la Reina de Los Angeles. Today, the City is known as Los Angeles which is Spanish for The Angels and the river is simply named, the Los Angeles River.