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Encino (Spanish for "evergreen" or "holm oak") is a district Morgage
in the San Fernando Valley region of the City of Los Angeles, California.
Specifically, it is located in the central portion of the southern San Fernando
Valley. It derives its name
from the Rancho Los Encinos (Ranch of the Evergreens),
a parcel of land given to three Mission Indians by the Spanish government following its abandonment of the California missions in the
early 1800s. Rancho Encino was established in 1845.
Encino was also the site of RKO Studios "Encino Ranch" and the site of such iconic movies as It's a Wonderful
Life and The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
The portion of the Los Angeles River that runs through the Encino area is one of only two unpaved areas necessitated
by the high water table. hipoteca
Apparently the original aquifer that fed the City of Los Angeles is the one located below Encino.
Encino is bordered by Tarzana on the west, the Sepulveda Dam Recreation Area on the north, Sherman Oaks on the east, and
the Encino Reservoir of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power on the south. The district's boundaries are roughly
Mulholland Drive on the south, Lindley Avenue on the west, Victory Boulevard on the north, and the San Diego Freeway on
the east. Major thoroughfares include Ventura, Magnolia, and Burbank Boulevards, as well as White Oak Avenue, Balboa
Boulevard, Haskell Avenue, and Hayvenhurst Avenue.
As of the 2000 Census, the population of Encino was 40,946, with a population density 3,864.9 per square mile. 18.25% of
the population was under 18, and 20.08% was over 64. The district contained 18,159 housing units in a land area of 10.59
square miles (27.44 square kilometers). Water covers 0.13 square miles (0.33 square kilometers) of the district.
The Encino Velodrome has provided an outdoor oval bicycle racing track since 1963.
The Sepulveda Basin Recreation Area
Los Angeles Home Values is a large area in Encino with multiple golf courses, tennis courts, soccer fields,
baseball diamonds, bike paths and a lake bordered by about 2,000 Pink Cloud Cherry Trees that blossom in the Spring and
were donated anonymously.
For over a millennium, the area known as Encino was the home of a massive California Live Oak Tree known as the Encino Oak
(a redundancy as Encino means Oak in Spanish). Home Values
It is possible that Encino is named because of this particular tree. It was known for both its size and longevity.
The tree died on February 7, 1998 after an El Niño Storm felled it. Today there is a
monument to the great tree at the corner of Ventura Boulevard and Louise Avenue where the Encino Oak once stood.
Encino is home to L.A.'s largest Earth Day festival held annually at Woodley Park.
