Pablo Vicente de Solá

Pablo Vicente de Solá
12th Governor of Alta California
In office 1815–1822
Preceded by	José Darío Argüello
Succeeded by	Luis Antonio Argüello
Personal details
Born	1761
Died	1826 (aged 64–65)
Profession	Politician, soldier
Religion	Roman Catholic

Pablo Vicente de Solá, (1761–1826), was a Spanish officer and the twelfth and last Spanish colonial governor of Alta California, 1815-1822. He was born in Mondragón, Gipuzkoa (Spain).

Solá granted in 1821 the 3,127-acre (1,265 ha) Rancho Rincon de los Bueyes to Bernardo Higuera and Cornelio Lopez. It lay in present-day Los Angeles County, California, encompassing contemporary Cheviot Hills, Rancho Park, the northeast extension of Culver City, and a small section of Baldwin Hills with Ballona Creek. He explored the valleys of California to help select possible sites on which to build new Spanish missions.

Other Spanish land grants of Solá include:

Solá served under Spanish colonial rule; Mexico became independent in 1821. Although California disfavored Mexican rule, transfer of Spanish California to Mexico was completed with little disruption, and Solá himself presided over the changing of flags in 1822. News of Mexico's victory slowly reached north to Alta California, and not until 1822 did Luis Antonio Argüello replace Solá as the Mexican provisional governor, and then as the first appointed Territorial governor appointed by Mexico. Argüello was also the first native-born Californian to govern the state. He at first was very opposed to the independence revolution. He threatened anyone in favor of the Mexican revolution. But when Canon Agustin Fernandez de San Vicente, the commissioner from the imperial Spanish regency, came to Monterey and asked him to transfer his allegiance to Mexico, he complied. He took down the Spanish flag and raised the new Mexican flag. In his tenure one new mission was founded: Mission San Rafael Arcángel on December 14, 1817.

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