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La Puente is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. The city had a population of 39,816 at the 2010 census and is approximately 20 miles east of downtown Los Angeles. The city reveal is Spanish for “The Bridge”.
The original inhabitants of the Place now occupied by the city of La Puente were the Kizh. They lived in a village called Awingna, which linguists translate as “abiding place.” The Awingna chief Matheo (who afterward held sway exceeding several other available villages) was baptized at Mission San Gabriel in 1774.
In 1769, the Spanish Portolá expedition became the first Europeans to look inland portions of Alta California. On July 30, the party camped on the east side of the San Gabriel River, in today’s unincorporated Place of Bassett. Father Juan Crespi wrote in his diary that, the next day, they had to construct a bridge (Spanish “puente”) to livid the miry San Gabriel River.
With the instigation of Mission San Gabriel, the Place encompassing Awingna and what is now the city of La Puente became share of Rancho La Puente, established as a mission outpost and ranch. The rancho was visited by the Jedediah Smith party in November 1826, the first Americans to travel overland to California.
Following secularization of the missions in the 1830s, former mission ranchos passed into private ownership. In 1842, John Rowland and William Workman were arranged the 48,000-acre (190 km2) Rancho La Puente. In 1884, the Place was named Puente (bridge in Spanish; in passй Spanish the noun was often feminine, as opposed to liberal Spanish el puente). In Crespi’s diary, it’s written as “la puente”, and that spelling has persisted.