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East Los Angeles (CA, USA)  

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  • unincorporated area within Los Angeles County and, per Wikipedia, part of the East Lost Angeles region: East Los Angeles (region). Eastern Los Angeles (also known as East L.A. or the Eastside) is the portion of the City of Los Angeles, California that lies east of the Los Angeles River and Downtown Los Angeles, west of the San Gabriel Valley and the unincorporated area of East Los Angeles, California and City Terrace, California, south of the Crescenta Valley, and north of Vernon, California and City of Commerce, California. The short form for the region, "East L.A.," is an imprecise term which can mean different things depending on usage and context. As a geographical term, it can either refer to the region described here or the unincorporated community of East Los Angeles... [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Los_Angeles_%28region%29]

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  • 33801

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