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 word san:

    “The gold-digger in the ravines of the mountains is as much a gambler as his fellow in the saloons of San Francisco. What difference does it make whether you shake dirt or shake dice? If you win, society is the loser.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)