Piwiva

Piwiva was a Acjachemen village located at the confluence of San Juan Creek and Cañada Gobernadora tributary in what is now Rancho Mission Viejo, California.

[4] The village was visited by the Portolá expedition in January 1770, after being missed on the first pass through the area in July 1769.

[1] Juan Crespí described the encounter as follows: "We met with no villages here on the way going up, but now we came upon some small houses roofed with tule rushes, with a good many gentile men, women and children living encamped here in the hollow.

"[3] In 1964, Clarence H. Lobo, chief of the Acjachemen people, made a bid to reclaim the village site, which was a campground at the time.

Lobo spoke how the US Senate Act of 1891, which established the Mission Indian Commission, was supposed to provide native people with 640 acres of land after it had been lost to white settlers in the 1850s, but that the act was broken, like many before: "it is apparently just another treaty made to be broken in the long history of whites take over Indian's lands.