Rancho Cañada de los Capitancillos was a 1,110-acre (4.5 km2) Mexican land grant in present day Santa Clara County, California given in 1842 by Governor Juan B. Alvarado to Justo Larios.
The grant was south of present day San Jose and bounded on the west by the Guadalupe River.
[4] In 1848 Cook sold the northern part of the grant (Rancho Cañada de los Capitancillos) to the Guadalupe Mining Company.
[5] Cook died in 1852,[6] and Charles Fossat bought the other three-quarters of the grant in a sheriff's sale.
[7] With the cession of California to the United States following the Mexican-American War, the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo provided that the land grants would be honored.