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Click Here to Order a Ready to Frame Luster PrintFor one of the most boring cities in America (according to Forbes Magazine 2009) Chula Vista is a rather interesting place if you ask me.Prehistoric evidence, of both land and aquatic origin, date Chula Vista's history back to the year 3000 B.C. when people speaking the Yuman (Quechan) language began movement into the region from the Lower Colorado River Valley and southwestern Arizona portions of the Sonoran desert. Later the Kumeyaay tribe came to populate the land, on which the city sits today.In the year 1542, a fleet of three Spanish Empire ships, commanded by Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo, sailed into San Diego Harbor. The historic land on which Chula Vista sits became part of the 1795 land grant known as Rancho del Rey or The King's Ranch. The land eventually was renamed Rancho del la Nacion.The San Diego Land and Town Company developed lands of the Rancho de la Nación for new settlement. The town began as a five thousand acre dev