Tuyunga, California
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Tuyunga or Tujunga (Tongva language, Tongva: ''Tuhuunga'', “place of the old woman”) is a former Tongva people, Tongva (Fernandeño) village now located at Sunland-Tujunga, Los Angeles in Los Angeles County, California, Los Angeles County, California. The village was located near the original Rancho Los Encinos that became the Mission San Fernando Rey de España in the San Fernando Valley. People of the village frequently intermarried with people from neighboring Chumash people, Chumash villages. The nearby valley renamed Crescenta Valley by the Spanish Empire, Spanish was potentially used as a seasonal hunting location with access to the waters of the canyon. The Tongva regularly cultivated plants in the region, as reported by a Spanish survey of the area in 1795, who sought to exploit the site for the construction of another mission.


Toponymy

The village name is referred to in the following places: * Big Tujunga Creek, major stream in Los Angeles County * Big Tujunga Dam, dam in Los Angeles County * Sunland-Tujunga, Los Angeles, a neighborhood in the city of Los Angeles * Tujunga Wash Greenway, a cycling route * Tujunga Wash, a tributary of the Los Angeles River * Rancho Tujunga, a former rancho


See also

*Tovaangar


References

Tongva San Fernando Valley Former settlements in Los Angeles County, California Former Native American populated places in California Former populated places in California Tongva populated places Native Americans in Los Angeles {{LosAngeles-geo-stub