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Home > Hispanic Gangs > LA County > East LA Gangs of East Los Angeles (Unincorporated Los Angeles County) Encompassing the land east of the Los Angeles River, East Los Angeles is a central historical area of the City that has for many years has been anchored by communities such as Boyle Heights and Lincoln Heights. This area was home to the Gabrielino Indians since the 1st Century, but the area fell to the hands of the Spanish in the late eighteenth century, with Mexican and American ranchers taking control of the land for much of the nineteenth century. East Los Angeles became a popular immigrant destination during the early 1900s for Russians, Jews, Japanese, and Mexicans. Living east of the river and working in nearby factories, or traveling by electric rail into downtown Los Angeles, immigrants and their children helped fuel the prosperity of the growing City. By the onset of World War II, East Los Angeles was a nearly exclusively Latino community, soon reinforced by Mexican workers who arrived to man the machines in the area�s burgeoning war industries. Remnants of Jewish influence still remain in the form of street names and an old synagogue, but this primary Latino community is one of the most popular in the Country. This area also includes the northern section of City Terrace. It is the largest Mexican-American community in the United States and home to over 1 million people in an area bigger than Manhattan or Washington D.C. Barrios west of Indiana are in Boyle Heights, which is actually part of the City of Los Angeles policed by the Hollenbeck division of the LAPD. The East Los Angeles area is policed by the LA County Sheriff's Department. Arizona MaraVilla Choppers 12 City Terrace Clarence Street Locos Clicka Los Primos (CLPS) East Los Angeles Dukes (ELA) El Hoyo MaraVilla (HMV) Ficket Street (inactive) Ford MaraVilla Fraser MaraVilla (FRMV) Gage MaraVilla (GMV) Geraghty Loma 13 (GxL) Hicks Street (HKS) High Times MaraVilla Indiana Dukes (IDKS) Juarez MaraVilla King Kobras 13 (KK ) Laguna Park 13 (LPV) Little Valley (LVR) Lote MaraVilla Lopez MaraVilla LOTT Marianna MaraVilla (MMV) Moeriya MaraVilla Pomeroy MaraVilla Project Boys Maravilla Raskals MaraVilla MaraVilla Rifa (MVR) Rock MaraVilla Soto Street (inactive) Winter Gardens (WG) Boyle Heights Barrios Events | OnLine Store| Magazine | Homicides | Homies | Gang Tapes | Crip Gangs | Home | Bibliography | Research | History | People in LA | Blood Gangs | Hispanic Gangs | Life in a Gang | Gallery | Memorial | Migration | Graffiti | Resume| In the News | Injunctions | Homicides | Maps | Contact Copyright © Streetgangs.com, All RIGHTS RESERVED. Disclaimer All trademarks mentioned herein belong to their respective owners.