Situated on the Mexican border on the Southern Pacific region of California, the city of San Diego is the second largest city of California and the eight largest in the entire United States. This city is known for its long association with the US navy and for its year round congenial climatic conditions. In fact, this city is bathed in history and is one of the cities that were first visited by the Portuguese. A Portuguese by the name of Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo, a resident of Spanish America was the first outsider to pay a visit to this land which was inhabited by the Kumeyaay Natives.
The native still survive till this date but are lesser in number and are considered as a minority of the city. The name San Diego came out some 60 years after Cabrillo paid a visit when under the mapping efforts of Sebastian Vizcaino, the entire Alta California was recorded on paper for Spain in the year 1602. The first military post was set up soon after followed by a Christian missionary to convert the local tribes to the new religion. This was common throughout the regions of North America inhabited by the invading Spaniards and Portuguese.
This Christian mission soon became the largest in the entire American continent with over 1700 converted Native Americans. The control of the province and therefore the city switched from Spain into the hands of the Mexicans way back in 1821 when Mexico overpowered the occupying forces of Spain in the Mexican Wars of Independence. It was towards the 1850's that the city finally came into the grip of the United States under the American Mexican Wars when the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed.