About Calabasas, California
Calabasas is a city in Los Angeles County, California located in the southwest corner of the San Fernando Valley and comprises a portion of the Santa Monica Mountains. It is 22 miles (35 km) away from downtown Los Angeles. It is bordered by the Woodland Hills area of Los Angeles to the northeast, Topanga to the east, Malibu to the south, Agoura Hills to the west, and Hidden Hills to the north. The Leonis Adobe, an adobe structure in Old Town Calabasas, dates from 1844 and is one of the oldest surviving buildings in greater Los Angeles. The city was incorporated in 1991. As of the 2010 census, the city’s population was 23,058.
The name Calabasas is derived from the Spanish calabaza, meaning “pumpkin”, “squash”, or “gourd”, but the city name is also said to mean “where the wild geese fly” in the local Native American language. The original inhabitants were affiliated with the Chumash nation. The area was explored by the Spanish in the 18th century and settled early in the 1800s. In the second half of the 19th century, Calabasas became part of the estate of the Basque immigrant Miguel Leonis, the so-called “king of Calabasas,” and his Native American wife, Espiritu. After his death in 1889, several sites were developed as tourist facilities and the area later became an affluent Los Angeles suburb.
At the top of the Calabasas grade, which is east of Las Virgenes Road, legend has it that in 1824, a Basque rancher from Oxnard spilled a wagonload of pumpkins on the road en route to Los Angeles. The following spring, hundreds of pumpkin seeds sprouted alongside the road. The area was named Las Calabasas—the place where the pumpkins fell.
In honor of its namesake, the City of Calabasas and the Calabasas Chamber of Commerce hold an annual Pumpkin Festival in October, including carnival games, exhibits, demonstrations, and live entertainment. The festival has evolved from a small-town fair to a significant annual event. Though the current Pumpkin Festival is held at Juan Bautista de Anza Park in Calabasas, the original festival was believed to have taken place where the traveling wagon carrying pumpkins overturned and started the area’s first pumpkin patch.
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