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Spain Army. Rank. Captain. Captain Gaspar de Portolá y Rovira (January 1, 1716 – October 10, 1786) was a Spanish Army officer and colonial administrator who served as the first governor of the Californias from 1767 to 1770. Born in Catalonia into an aristocratic family, he is best known for leading the Portolá expedition into California ...
Gaspar de Portola Middle School, LAUSD, 18720 Linnet Street; Sherman Oaks Center for Enriched Studies (4–12), LAUSD alternative, 18605 Erwin Street; Vanalden Avenue Elementary School, LAUSD, 19019 Delano Street; Tarzana Elementary School, LAUSD, 5726 Topeka Drive; CHIME Institute's Schwarzenegger Community School, LAUSD charter, 19722 Collier ...
Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) is a public school district in Los Angeles, California, United States. It is the largest public school system in California in terms of number of students and the 2nd largest public school district in the United States, with only the New York City Department of Education having a larger student ...
Highlander Road Elementary School (1962-2004) – located at 23834 Highlander Road, Woodland Hills, California. This school has also been demolished in 2016, same year as Oso Avenue School, to make way for Hale VAPA Magnet. Charles E. Hughes Middle School – located at 5607 Capistrano Avenue, Woodland Hills, California.
Statue of Gaspar de Portolá in Pacifica, California, near the expedition's November 1 camp. This timeline of the Portolá expedition tracks the progress during 1769 and 1770 of the first European exploration-by-land of north-western coastal areas in what became Las Californias, a province of Spanish colonial New Spain.
The Portolá expedition was a Spanish voyage of exploration in 1769–1770 that was the first recorded European exploration of the interior of the present-day California. It was led by Gaspar de Portolá, governor of Las Californias, the Spanish colonial province that included California, Baja California, and other parts of present-day Mexico ...
In 1769, the expedition of Captain Gaspar de Portolà to California is in search of fabled cities of gold. Its religious advisor, peace-loving missionary Father Junípero Serra, wishes to establish good relations with the local natives and to build a string of missions, beginning at San Diego Bay. He is unexpectedly aided when Portola's ...
The documented share of Covid tests in California that came back positive has risen from around 3% to 7.5% in the last month or so. “It looks like the summer wave is starting to begin,” said ...