They called the area'El Monte,' which in old Californian Spanish means "the woods," since the first explorers had found this rich, low-altitude land blanketed with thick growths of wispy willows, sycamore, and cattails between two rivers.
They called the area'El Monte,' which in Spanish means'the mountain' or'the mount'. The first explorers had found this rich, low-altitude land, blanketed with thick growths of wispy willows, alders, and cattails, located between the two rivers.