Rancho Quito

Rancho Quito was a 13,310-acre (53.9 km2) Mexican land grant in present-day Santa Clara County, California given in 1841 by Governor Juan Alvarado to José Zenon Fernandez and José Noriega.

Noriega sold his share of the rancho to José Manuel Alviso in 1844.

[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.

Before the boundaries of the rancho were defined several families occupied what they thought was public land east of Cupertino.

José Noriega (1798–) was born in Asturias, Spain,[9] and came to California with the Hijar-Padres Colony on the "Natalia" in 1834.

Don José Noriega was the rancho grantee of Rancho Quito in 1841.