Rancho San Isidro Ajajolojol, also known as Rancho Joljol or Toljol or Rancho Jesus Maria or San Ysidro Ajajolojol, was a land grant made to
José López in 1836 by interim Governor
Nicolas Gutierrez
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* Dafydd Nicolas (c.1705–1774), ...
.
Location
It covered 26,019.53 acres in what is now
San Isidro in the
Tijuana Municipality
Tijuana Municipality is a municipality in the Mexican state of Baja California. Its municipal seat is located in the city of Tijuana. According to the 2020 census, the municipality had a population of 1,922,523. Luis Arturo González Cruz of the ...
of
Baja California
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,
Mexico
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14 miles east of
Tijuana
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(US) and [< ...]
, and 9 miles west of
Tecate along the northern tributaries of the
Tijuana River
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near the United States boundary in
Baja California Territory
Baja California Territory (Territorio de Baja California) was a Mexican territory from 1824 to 1931, that encompassed the Baja California Peninsula of present-day northwestern Mexico. It replaced the Baja California Province (1773–1824) of ...
.
[Hubert Howe Bancroft, History of California, Vol. 3, The History Company, San Francisco, 1886, p.612 n.7]
The property of Rancho San Isidro Ajajolojol, lies at an elevation of , bounded on the west by the mountains dividing it from Rancho Tijuana.
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from es.getamap.net accessed July 20, 2014
History
In 1822, José López and his brother requested a concession for the Rancho San Ysidro Ajolojol, east of what later became
Rancho Tía Juana
Rancho Tía Juana, or Ti Juan was a land grant made to Santiago Arguello on March 4, 1829, by Governor José María de Echeandía. It covered 26,019.53 acres in what is now Tijuana in the Tijuana Municipality of Baja California, Mexico and part ...
. This ranch was reported in 1828 to be a stock range.
José Lopez was the son of Ignacio Lopez a soldier at the
San Diego Presidio
El Presidio Real de San Diego (Royal Presidio of San Diego) is a historic fort in San Diego, California. It was established on May 14, 1769, by Gaspar de Portolá, leader of the first European land exploration of Alta California—at that time a ...
. With his father and his brother
Juan Bautista Lopez, Jose Lopez participated in
Pio Pico
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's revolt against Governor
Manuel Victoria
Manuel Victoria (died 1833) was governor of the Mexican-ruled territory of Alta California from January 1831 to December 6, 1831. He died in exile. He was appointed governor on March 8, 1830 by Lucas Alamán.
Exile
The revolt, called Battle of ...
, opponent of secularizing the missions, in 1831.
Like many ranchos east of San Diego it was attacked by the Kumeyaay in 1837 and abandoned for a time requiring a new grant to be made later. It was formally granted to Juan Ignacio Lopez on June 11, 1840, as Rancho Toljol.
[California Surveyor General's Office, Biennial Report of the Surveyor-General of the State of California, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1881, p.387, 519](_blank)
/ref> The Expediente for Rancho Joljol successfully submitted, formal title to the grant was recorded on July 12, 1840, however it was strangely recorded as Toljol.[Lawrence D. Taylor, The Mining Boom in Baja California from 1850 to 1891 and the Emergence of Tijuana as a Border Community, On the Border: Society and Culture Between the United States and Mexico, edited by Andrew Grant Wood, Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, MD, 2004, pp.6-7] Its grant title was confirmed by the Mexican Government in 1861 and it is still in existence.
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Baja California Ranchos
California ranchos
History of Tijuana
Tijuana Municipality
1836 establishments in Mexico
1836 establishments in Alta California