San Gabriel

San Gabriel, Spanish for Saint Gabriel, may mean:

Ecuador
  • San Gabriel, Ecuador
Guatemala
  • San Gabriel, Suchitepéquez
Mexico
  • San Gabriel, Durango
  • San Gabriel, Guanajuato
  • San Gabriel, Jalisco
  • San Gabriel Chilac, Puebla
  • San Gabriel Mixtepec, Oaxaca
Philippines
  • San Gabriel, La Union
United States
  • San Gabriel, California
  • The San Gabriel River (California), site of the 1847 Battle of Rio San Gabriel in the Mexican-American War
  • The San Gabriel River (Texas), site of the 1839 Battle of the San Gabriels in the Texas-Indian Wars
  • The San Gabriel Valley in California
  • The San Gabriel Mountains in California

Famous quotes containing the words san and/or gabriel:

    “Mining today is an affair of mathematics, of finance, of the latest in engineering skill. Cautious men behind polished desks in San Francisco figure out in advance the amount of metal to a cubic yard, the number of yards washed a day, the cost of each operation. They have no need of grubstakes.”
    —Merle Colby, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    “To administer is to govern: to govern is to reign. That is the essence of the problem.”
    —Honoré Gabriel Riquet, Comte De Mirabeau (1749–1791)