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0.3% 10,524. Greater Los Angeles is a politically divided metropolitan area. During the 1970s and 1980s, the region leaned toward the Republican Party. Los Angeles County, the most populous of the region, is a Democratic stronghold, although it voted twice for both Richard Nixon (1968 and 1972) and Ronald Reagan (1980 and 1984).
El Tepeyac Café. / 34.04778°N 118.197639°W / 34.04778; -118.197639. El Tepeyac Café, or simply El Tepeyac, is a longstanding Mexican restaurant in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of East Los Angeles. They are famous for their massive burritos, “Manuel’s Special Burrito” and the “Hollenbeck Burrito.”. The original location ...
Philippe's, or " Philippe the Original " ( ⫽ fɪˈliːps ⫽ fi-LEEPS) [1] [2] is a restaurant located in downtown Los Angeles, California. The restaurant is well known for continuously operating since 1908, making it one of the oldest restaurants in Los Angeles. It is also renowned for claiming to be the inventor of the French dip sandwich .
Eleven reservoirs have a storage capacity greater than or equal to 1,000,000 acre-feet (1.2 km 3 ); all of these except one are in or on drainages that feed into the Central Valley. The largest single reservoir in California is Shasta Lake, with a full volume of more than 4,552,000 acre-feet (5.615 km 3 ). ‡ denotes reservoir that is ...
The Los Angeles City Council is the governing body of Los Angeles. The council is composed of fifteen members elected from single-member districts for four-year terms and limited to three terms. The president of the council and the president pro tempore are chosen by the council at the first regular meeting after June 30 in odd-numbered years.
Los Angeles, [a] often referred to by its initials L.A., is the most populous city in the U.S. state of California. With roughly 3.9 million residents within the city limits as of 2020, [7] Los Angeles is the second-most populous city in the United States, behind only New York City; it is also the commercial, financial and cultural center of ...
"Cities within the County of Los Angeles" (PDF). Chief Executive Office - Los Angeles County "Census 2010: Table 3A — Total Population by Race (Hispanic exclusive) and Hispanic or Latino: 2010". California Department of Finance. Archived from the original (Excel) on November 24, 2011
Elysian Park is one of the largest parks in Los Angeles at 600 acres (240 ha). It is also the city's oldest park, founded in 1886 by the Elysian Park Enabling Ordinance. Most of Elysian Park falls in the Eastern neighborhood of the same name, but a small portion of the park does fall in Echo Park.