West Whittier-Los Nietos is a census-designated place (CDP) in Los Angeles County, California, near the San Gabriel River and the San Gabriel River (I-605)
(1,200 km2), Rancho Los Nietos, as a reward for his military service and to encourage settlement in California. The area of Nieto's land grant was reduced
Heights, Pico Union, City of Commerce, Montebello, Pico Rivera, Los Nietos and Whittier. The thoroughfare was known as Washington Street until around 1903
Zanja, but later it was known simply as Rancho Los Nietos. Upon Manuel Nieto's death in 1804, Rancho Los Nietos passed to his wife and four children. The rancho
areas south of the Whittier Narrows and Puente Hills south to present-day Long Beach, centered on the early settlement at Los Nietos. Some of this area