San Fernando

American  

[sahn fer-nahn-daw, san fer-nan-doh] / ˌsɑn fɛrˈnɑn dɔ, ˌsæn fərˈnæn doʊ /

noun

1. a city in E Argentina, near Buenos Aires.

2. a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.

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San Fernando British  

/ san fɛrˈnando /

noun

1. a port in Trinidad and Tobago, on Trinidad on the Gulf of Paria: the second-largest town in the country. Pop: 55 149 (2000)

2. Official name: San Fernando de Apure. an inland port in W Venezuela, on the Apure River. Pop: 84 180 (latest est)

3. a port in SW Spain, on the Isla de León SE of Cádiz; site of an arsenal (founded 1790) and of the most southerly observatory in Europe. Pop: 88 490 (2003 est)

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San Fernando

The aircraft came down in a parking lot near a self-storage facility in Chatsworth, a community in the San Fernando Valley.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

The L.A. aqueduct, an astonishing feat of engineering, brought hundreds of millions of gallons a day down more than 200 miles from the Owens Valley into the San Fernando Valley.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026

Rush hour traffic was moving slowly when Rios’s Expedition entered one of the busiest junctions in the San Fernando Valley, but the SUV did not appear to brake before it T-boned the bus, witnesses said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026

The aircraft came down in a parking lot near a self-storage facility in Chatsworth, a community in Los Angeles’s San Fernando Valley, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

The middle class drove Ford Fairlanes, setded the San Fernando Valley, and enlisted as company men.

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times