Rancho Cueros de Venado ("Hides of Deer") was an 1835 land grant in the vicinity of the Pueblo of

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, and whose site is in present-day

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, Mexico. An ''expediente'' was submitted on August 29, 1835. The rancho was owned and occupied by

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in 1836. The rancho was already established in 1836 when it was attacked by the Kumeyaay people at the beginning of their hostilities against the ranchos of the San Diego region. Its defenders managed to kill several of the attackers and repelled the raid. The grant, being wholly in Mexican territory, was never presented before the Land Commission of the state of

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. The rancho was located in the mountains southeast of the Rancho Tía Juana and northeast of the Rancho El Rosario within the strip of Alta California left to Mexico by the 1848

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. Rancho Curero de Venedo is noted as still being in existence in a report of settlements and ranchos in Baja California Norte in 1906, indicating that the grant was confirmed by the Mexican government like the Rancho Tía Juana in the 1880s. The rancho's region in the southeast of the

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still bears the name "Cueros de Venedo".Zona Cueros de Venedo
from implantijuana.org accessed May 31, 2014.

References

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