page_title: History of San Jose, California
section_title: First Spanish pueblo in California
hierarchical_section_title: History of San Jose, California / First Spanish pueblo in California
caption_attribution_description: English: Alta California 13c 1977 issue U.S. stamp. The stamp commemorates the 200th anniversary of the founding of El Pueblo de San José de Guadalupe, the first civil settlement in Alta California.
context_page_description: The history of San Jose, California, the third largest city in the state, and the largest of all cities in the San Francisco Bay Area and Northern California, with a population of 1,021,795:
context_section_description: El Pueblo de San José de Guadalupe (The Town of Saint Joseph of Guadalupe) was founded by José Joaquín Moraga on November 29, 1777, the first pueblo-town not associated with a mission or a military post (presidio) in upper Las Californias. (Mission Santa Clara, the closest mission, was founded earlier in 1777, three miles (5 km) from the original pueblo site in neighboring Santa Clara. Mission San José was not founded until 1797, about 20 miles (30 km) north of San Jose in what is now Fremont.) The town was founded by the colonists led to California by Anza, as a farming community to provide food for the presidios of San Francisco and Monterey. In 1778, the pueblo had a population of 68. 
  In 1781, Governor Felipe de Neve issued the first rules regarding governance of secular pueblos (only two at that time; San José and Los Ángeles), the "Regulations for the Government of the Province of the Californias" (Reglamento para el gobierno de la provincia de Californias)   
  In 1797, the pueblo was moved from its original location, near the present-day intersection of Guadalupe Parkway and Taylor Street, to a location in what is now Downtown San Jose, surrounding Pueblo Plaza (now Plaza de César Chávez).
  In the ensuing years a number of Mexican Rancho Land Grants Land Grants were confirmed within the lands now considered San Jose.
caption: The 200th anniversary (1977) of the El Pueblo de San José de Guadalupe founding in Las Californias: marked by this Commemorative U.S. postage stamp. Note that "Alta California" did not officially exist as a polity until 1804.
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