Los Gatos, California

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The town of Los Gatos is an incorporated town in Santa Clara County, California, United States. The population was 29,413 at the 2010 census.

It is located in the San Francisco Bay Area at the southwest corner of San Jose in the foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains. Homes are mostly upscale, varying from century-old one million-dollar cottages in the downtown area to 10 - 20 million-dollar large custom homes in the surrounding hills. The town is noted for its small, pedestrian-friendly downtown, with many boutique shops and upscale restaurants. It is also a preferred destination for antique shopping.

California land-grant that encompassed the area, which was called Rancho Rinconada de Los Gatos, ("the corner of the cats"), where "the cats" refers to the wild cats (bobcats and mountain lions) that are indigenous to the Santa Cruz Mountains in whose foothills the town is nestled. The name has been anglicized to [lɑsˈɡæɾɨs] (lahs-GAD-is) or [lɔs ˈɡætəs], although one also hears pronunciations truer to the original Spanish, /loʊsˈɡɑːtoʊs/ (lohss-GAH-tohss).

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