Californios (singular Californio) are Hispanic Californians, especially those descended from Spanish and Mexican settlers of the 17th through 19th centuries...

List of Californios people, the Californios (singular Californio) are Hispanic Californians, especially those descended from Spanish and Mexican settlers...

in California, including the historical variety known as Californio Spanish (español californio). Spanish was first introduced to California in 1542 and...

Californios is a Michelin-starred restaurant in San Francisco, California, serving Mexican cuisine. Its head chef is Val M. Cantu, one of the restaurant's...

independence, California became part of Mexico. In 1836, a coup led by Californios Juan Bautista Alvarado and José Castro eventually resulted in Alvarado...

had evolved into a semi-autonomous region with open discussions among Californios about whether California should remain with Mexico; seek independence;...

missions and nationalized the church's property. They left behind a "Californio" population of several thousand families, with a few small military garrisons...

was largely unaffected and uninvolved in the revolution, though many Californios supported independence from Spain, which many believed had neglected...

later sold to John P. Jones and Robert Baker, who in 1875, along with his Californio heiress wife Arcadia Bandini de Stearns Baker, founded Santa Monica, which...

expedition through the area. In 1839, the Mexican government granted Californio ranchero José del Carmen Lugo the right to settle the area, which was...