[1] The rancho lands included the present-day Los Angeles communities of Lake View Terrace,[2] Sunland, and Tujunga.
The term is thought to relate to an ethnohistoric narrative, known as Khra'wiyawi, collected by Carobeth Laird from Juan and Juana Menendez at the Leonis Adobe in 1916.
In the narrative, the wife of Khra'wiyawi (the chief of the region) is stricken with grief over the untimely loss of her daughter.
[6] The Mexican government made the land grant to brothers Francisco and Pedro Lopez in 1840.
[7][8] 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.