Rancho San Vicente was a 19,979-acre (80.85 km2) Mexican land grant in the Salinas Valley, in present-day Monterey County, California.
The grant extended along the east bank of the Salinas River and encompassed present day Soledad.
[2] Esteban Munrás (1798–1850) a Spaniard from Barcelona, was a Monterey trader and amateur painter.
His wife Catalina Manzanelli de Munrás, the daughter of Maria Casilda Ponce De Leon and Nicolas Manzanelli, a silk merchant from Genoa, Italy, was grantee of Rancho Laguna Seca and Rancho San Francisquito.
[3][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.