Rancho Lomerias Muertas was a Mexican land grant in present-day San Benito County, California given in 1842 by Governor Juan B. Alvarado to José Antonio Castro.Ogden Hoffman, 1862, Reports of Land Cases Determined in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, Numa Hubert, San Francisco The name means "barren hills". The grant was between the Pajaro River and the San Benito River, south of present-day Gilroy. Diseño del Rancho Lomerias Muertas
