Los Gatos Creek, originally Arroyo Pasajero (Traveler Creek) or Arroyo Poso de Chane (Pool of the Chane), included the Poso de Chane, a pool or waterhole on the creek, northwest of the Guijarral Hills, 6 miles from Coalinga. This pool was once the site of a village of native Americans called the Chane by the Spanish. This location became a small Spanish and later a Mexican settlement, and a way station on the El Camino Viejo. The Poso de Chane and the settlement was destroyed in the Great Flood of 1862. However as late as 1925 the course of Los Gatos Creek east of the Guijarral Hills was referred to as Arroyo Pasajero on a USGS Topographic map of Coalinga.