La Patera, California

Unincorporated community in California, United States

"La Patera" redirects here. For the Mexico City Metrobús station, see La Patera (Mexico City Metrobús).

Unincorporated community in California, United States

La Patera

Unincorporated community

Etymology: Spanish for "The Place of Ducks"
Coordinates: 34°26′15″N 119°50′32″W﻿ / ﻿34.43750°N 119.84222°W﻿ / 34.43750; -119.84222
Country| United States
State| California
County| Santa Barbara
Time zone| UTC-8 (Pacific (PST))
• Summer (DST)| UTC-7 (Pacific Daylight Time (PDT))

La Patera (Spanish for "The Place of Ducks")[1] was a historical locale in what is now the area of Goleta, California.

Prior to European settlement, the area was inhabited by the Chumash, who had a settlement in the area named Saspilil.[2] The Portolá expedition reached the area in August 1769 and gave it the name Laguna, but this was later changed to La Patera owing to the abundant ducks inhabiting the area's wetlands.[3]

According to Yda Addis Storke's Memorial and Biographical History of the Counties of Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo and Ventura, California (1891), the name La Patera referred to the district comprising the Goleta valley west of Santa Barbara and east of the Rancho Cañada del Corral.[4] Three land grants lay in this area: the Calera or Los Positas, 3,281 acres granted in 1843; Rancho Goleta, 4,440 acres; and Dos Pueblos, 15,535 acres.[4]

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1. ^ Spanish and Indian Place Names of California: Their Meaning and Their Romance
2. ^ Collell, Juan Caballería y (1892). History of the City of Santa Barbara, California: From Its Discovery to Our Own Days. F. de P. Gutierrez, printer. p. 35.
3. ^ Collell, Juan Caballería y (1892). History of the City of Santa Barbara, California: From Its Discovery to Our Own Days. F. de P. Gutierrez, printer. pp. 14–16.
4. ^ a b Storke, Yda Addis (1891). A Memorial and Biographical History of the Counties of Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo and Ventura, California. Lewis Publishing Company. p. 96.

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