2) was a 48,827-acre (197.60 km2) Mexican land grant in present day eastern Santa Barbara County, California given in 1846 by Governor Pío Pico to Cesario Lataillade.
Cesario Armand Lataillade (1819–1849) was a French trader involved in the hide and tallow trade who came to Santa Barbara in 1841.
Lataillade was granted the eleven square league Rancho Cuyama (No.
[4] 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.
As required by the Land Act of 1851, a claim for Rancho Cuyama was filed with the Public Land Commission in 1852,[5][6] and the grant was patented to María Antonia de la Guerra y Lataillade in 1879.