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La Puente is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. The population was 39,816 at the 2010 census. In 1769, the Gaspar de PortolÃ  expedition (the first European exploration party in the Los Angeles area), along with Father JunÃ­pero Serra, built a bridge over the San Jose Creek. In 1884, the area was named Puente (bridge in Spanish; in old Spanish the noun was often feminine, as opposed to modern Spanish el puente). The community began in 1841 when John Rowland and William Workman were granted the 48,000-acre (190 km2) Rancho La Puente. The area was known for its fruit and walnut groves during the 1930s. The city was even home to the world's largest walnut packing plant.