Rancho

Satellite view of Rancho.

Rancho is a neighborhood in Los Santos, San Andreas in Grand Theft Auto V. It is bordered in the north to the neighbourhood Strawberry, To the lower-east, Cypress Flats, upper-east La Mesa, and to the west the city of Davis.

Character

Rancho has high-gang activity, supplemented by a high crime-rate. The area contains small-time businesses, small, single family homes, and a large housing project complex to the south. Rancho is the turf of the Los Santos Vagos and the Varrios Los Aztecas, who contribute to the majority to the area's problems. This is a heavily Latino (Mexican and Central American) neighborhood.

Events of GTA V

• Bike Theft encounter

Events of GTA Online

• The neighborhood takes place in missions where the Vagos are involved. Most of the missions involve repossessing vehicles or ambushing drug deals.

Influence

The southern part of the neighborhood is based on Watts, whilst the northern part is based on Florence. The projects to the south of Rancho resemble the Nickerson Gardens housing projects in Watts. There are also Los Santos' version of the Watts Towers across the road from the Housing Projects.

Gang Control

• The Vagos are permanently controlling most of the area.
• The Aztecas only control the northern section of Rancho, and sometimes are rarely seen.

Vagos control Rancho, unlike in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, where Ballas controlled it. However, South Side Ballas wearing Rancho t-shirts suggests that Rancho was once controlled by Ballas.

Notable Residents

• Preacher

Places of Interest

• Rancho Church
• Rancho Projects
• Rancho Towers

Roads and Streets

• Carson Avenue
• Dutch London Street
• El Rancho Boulevard
• Innocence Boulevard
• Jamestown Street
• Little Bighorn Avenue
• Macdonald Street
• Roy Lowenstein Boulevard

Businesses

• Atomic
• Auto Parts
• Avalon Laundry and Dry Cleaners
• Beacon Theatre
• Bean's Market
• Beer and Wine
• Bilingsgate Motel
• Chantelle's Beauty Salon
• Davis Electricals
• Discount Beauty Store
• Discount Carpet Cleaner
• East Los Santos Appliances
• Hearty Taco (northern location)
• Hearty Taco (southern location)
• Hitmen Bar
• Gav's Cash Exchange
• Los Santos Department of Water & Power
• Longpig Mini Market
• Mom's Tacos
• South LS Liquor
• Strawberry Mortuary
• Toke-a-mon Smokers Emporium
• Tony's Carpets
• Towing Impound
• Trinculo Clothing
• While-U-Wait Express Dry Cleaning (northern location)
• While-U-Wait Express Dry Cleaning (southern location)

Gallery

Small park in Rancho.

See Also

• Jefferson - Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas equivalent to Rancho

Notes

• There seems to be a spawning glitch where African American women spawn in the neighborhood instead on Hispanic women.
• The name Rancho may be based on the 1843 Rancho La Tajauta Mexican land grant, where Watts, Los Angeles is located.

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