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:

    “the San Marco Library,
    Whence turbulent Italy should draw
    Delight in Art whose end is peace,
    In logic and in natural law
    By sucking at the dugs of Greece.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “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)