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Also known as: El Pueblo de la Reina de los Angeles
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Leonard M. Pitt
Emeritus Professor of History, California State University, Northridge. Author of The Decline of the Californios: A Social History of the Spanish-Speaking Californians, 1846-1890. Co-author of Los...
Leonard M. Pitt
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Los Angeles , city, seat of Los Angeles county, southern California, U.S. It is the second most populous city and metropolitan area (after New York City) in the United States. The city sprawls across a broad coastal plain situated between mountains and the Pacific Ocean; the much larger Los Angeles county, which encompasses the city, contains some 90 other incorporated cities, including Beverly Hills, Pasadena, and Long Beach. The county also encompasses two of the Channel Islands, Santa Catalina and San Clemente; Mount San Antonio, familiarly known as Mount Baldy or Old Baldy, 10,046 feet (3,062 metres) high; more than ...(100 of 11493 words)

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