Rancho Cahuenga

Rancho Cahuenga, sometimes called the Cahuenga Tract, was a 388-acre (1.57 km2) Mexican land grant in the San Fernando Valley, in present-day Los Angeles County, California given in 1843 by governor Manuel Micheltorena to José Miguel Triunfo.

Rancho Cahuenga is now a part of the city of Burbank, with the Los Angeles River channel running through it.

He had been granted Rancho Cahuenga by Mexican Governor Micheltorena in 1843 for services performed at the Mission.

Miguel and his wife, Maria Rafaela (Canedo) Arriola can be found in the 1850 census of Los Angeles.

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.

Detail of the southeastern San Fernando Valley, from a manuscript map of Los Angeles and San Bernardino topography, 1880, showing the Rancho Cahuenga inholding within Rancho Providencia (shaded area, added).