Rancho Zanjones was a 6,714-acre (27.17 km2) Mexican land grant in present day Monterey County, California given in 1839 by Governor pro tem Manuel Jimeno to Gabriel de la Torre.
[1] The grant extended along the north bank of the Salinas River east of present day Chualar.
[2] Gabriel de la Torre, the Mexican government's chief administrator of Monterey, was granted the one and one half square league Rancho Zanjones in 1839.
[3] Juan Malarín (1792–1849), a sea captain from Peru, came to California in 1822, and was made a Lieutenant in the Mexican Navy.
[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.