San Francisco Relocation Guide - Antevia
San Francisco Relocation Guide - Antevia
San Francisco Relocation Guide - Antevia
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Mission District, <strong>San</strong> <strong>Francisco</strong>,<br />
California<br />
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia<br />
Mission Theatre on Mission Street<br />
The Inner Mission often called "The Mission", "The Heart of the Mission" or (also:<br />
La Misión or El Corazón de la Misión in Spanish) is the name of a neighborhood in the<br />
Mission District, <strong>San</strong> <strong>Francisco</strong>, California in the United States. It is built roughly on<br />
what used to be Spanish-Mexican ranchos owned by the Valencianos,Guerreros, Dolores,<br />
Bernals, Noes and DeHaros and built near the sixth Alta California mission - Mission <strong>San</strong><br />
<strong>Francisco</strong> de Asis. Today the neighborhood is both ethnically and economically diverse,<br />
with significant contingents of Chicanos/Latin-Americans, African Americans, Asian-<br />
Americans Cantonese-speaking Chinese, European-Americans and multi-racial or (also:<br />
"Mestizos" in Spanish).<br />
The actual Mission District used to comprise of the following neighborhoods: Bernal<br />
heights, Castro Village, Cayuga, College Hill, Crescent, Crocker Amazon, Diamond<br />
Heights, Dolores Heights, Eureka Valley, The Excelsior, Fairmont, Glen Park, Holly<br />
Park, Inner Mission, and Mission Tarrace. Today the Mission District is part of <strong>San</strong><br />
<strong>Francisco</strong>'s Districts 5, 9 and 10.<br />
This article is mainly about the Inner Mission.