Rancho Cuyama (Rojo)

1) was a 22,193-acre (89.81 km2) Mexican land grant in present-day eastern Santa Barbara County, California given in 1843 by Governor Manuel Micheltorena to José María Rojo.

[4] José María Rojo was granted the five square league Rancho Cuyama in 1843.

Cesario Armand Lataillade (1819–1849) was a French trader involved in the hide and tallow trade who came to Santa Barbara in 1841.

[5] 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,[6][7] and the grant was patented to María Antonia de la Guerra y Lataillade in 1877.