Rancho El Rincon was a 4,460-acre (18.0 km2) Mexican land grant in present day Santa Barbara County and Ventura County, California given in 1835 by Governor José Figueroa to Teodoro Arellanes.
The grant extended along the Pacific coast at the Santa Barbara and Ventura County line and encompassed Rincon Point, Rincon State Beach and present day La Conchita.
[2][3] José Teodoro Arellanes (1782-1858) was a soldier at the Presidio of Santa Barbara when he was married to María Sirilda Procopia Ruiz in 1802.
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.
In 1882 Biggs sold the rancho to Benigno Gutierrez (-1902), his former business partner, and Dr. Charles B. Bates.