The Kia Borrego is named after the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park in California; Borrego means "bighorned sheep" which can be found in the state park.
An early noting of the existence of the Sierra Pinta Range was in the explorations of Anza.
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Anza Vista is also the location of a Kaiser Permanente hospital at Geary Boulevard and St. Joseph's Avenue and Raoul Wallenberg Traditional High School on Nido Avenue.
The Foothill De Anza Community College District is a community college district headquartered on the grounds of Foothill College in Los Altos Hills, California.
Juan Bautista de Anza was born in Fronteras, Sonora, Mexico in 1736 (near Arizpe), into a military family living on the northern frontier of New Spain.
Palm Spring, a spring in Mesquite Oasis, a desert oasis amidst a mesquite thicket and a few palms, close to Carrizo Creek, within the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park in San Diego County, California.
In 1775 and 1776, de Anza escorted 240 colonists from Horcasitas, Sonora, to Monterey, California, and then to San Francisco Bay, where he selected sites for the mission, presidio and settlement.
North American beaver (Castor canadensis) have been thought to be non-native to San Luis Obispo Creek but Bolton recorded in "Anza's California Expeditions" that in April 1774, Father Cavaller of Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa gave Juan Bautista de Anza "thirty-odd beaver skins" along with other local gifts including fine Indian baskets and "the skins of eight bears, the animals for which the region was renowned".