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:

    “It is an odd thing, but every one who disappears is said to be seen at San Francisco. It must be a delightful city, and possess all the attractions of the next world.”
    —Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

    “I have been here before,
    But when or how I cannot tell:
    I know the grass beyond the door,
    The sweet keen smell,
    The sighing sound, the lights around the shore.”
    —Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882)