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Many other events she’s visited for research have taken her to rented-out parking lots behind warehouses or on privately owned ranchos, she added.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 8, 2025

He laughed when I told him about my long-ago Jomulquillo anecdote and said he’s heard similar stories in recent years from other ranchos around Jerez.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 29, 2022

What’s notable but not really surprising about the ranchos, Ethington points out, is how closely they tracked the lands of the Native Americans they displaced.

From Los Angeles Times • May 4, 2021

You recognize the names of some of the vast, vanished ranchos that have marked the maps of Southern California for a couple of centuries.

From Los Angeles Times • May 4, 2021

When the cholera swept like a scourge over this isolated country, the inhabitants of the villages and ranchos fled for safety to the mountains and the wilderness.

From Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Vol. II. by Stephens, John L.