Rancho Cañada de los Coches was a 28-acre (0.11 km2) Mexican land grant in present-day San Diego County, California, given in 1843 by Governor Manuel Micheltorena to Apolinaria Lorenzana.
The San Diego Mission fathers formerly watered their swine in dry seasons at a little spring arising from subterranean sources, thus giving it its name of "Glen of the Hogs".
Lorenzana continued to live at the San Diego Mission but hired majordomos to run her ranches and she would stay there occasionally.
[3][4] Lorenzana sold her Rancho Canada de los Coches to Anacleto Lestrade, a native of France, and a priest at the San Gabriel Mission 1851 -56.
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.