Rancho Melijo

It was later called Rancho La Punta for the location of the Arguello family ranch house, on a point of hills overlooking the south end of San Diego Bay, north of the Otay River and east of where the river entered the south bend of the bay.

The southern part of the land was adjacent to his fathers Rancho Ti Juan and Rancho San Antonio Abad[3][2] It extended from the foot of the range of hills that the 1856 county map calls the San Antonio Hills just above the modern border of Mexico, to as far north as to include the south end of San Diego Bay where the Otay River entered the bay and the southern part of the hills on the north side of the Otay River.

[3] 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.

The Argüello family retained some of the land, homesteading it in the vicinity of the ranch house north of the Otay River and by the bay.

[2] The Rancho Melijo included all of modern Imperial Beach, part of southwestern Chula Vista and the Tijuana River Valley, Otay Mesa West, Nestor and Palm City, neighborhoods of southern San Diego.