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:

    “There they are at last, Miss Rutledge. The will-o-the-wisps with plagues of fortune. San Francisco, the latest newborn of a great republic.”
    —Ben Hecht (1893–1964)

    “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)