Los Santos (3D Universe)

For the HD Universe rendition, see Los Santos (HD Universe).

Type	CITY
Los Santos
Country	United States
State	San Andreas
Motto	"City of Saints" "The city where you are most likely to get eaten by a wild animal"

“

Los Santos is truly one of the most audacious and must see cities of the world. The people are beautiful and their attitudes... well, that's for you to discover. The city has everything... whether you're jet-setting, roughing it or in between, it's ALL here. Los Santos is an urban wonderland with its Babel towers, labyrinth of criss-crossing freeways, side streets, rundown residential districts and glamorous neighbourhoods. Los Santos is a place where you can see it all and have it all.

”

— GTA San Andreas City Guides

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Street map of Los Santos.

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High detailed map of Los Santos.

Los Santos is a fictional city located in the State of San Andreas, and it is the first city encountered in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. It is based on Los Angeles, California. Los Santos translates to 'The Saints', a play on Los Angeles, meaning 'The Angels'. This also applies to the two cities' nicknames - "The City of the Saints" and "City of Angels".

Los Santos is the biggest and most populated city of the state. It is situated on the southeastern part of San Andreas, south of Red County and east of Flint County. Los Santos is a major world centre for motion picture, television and other related entertainment industries.

Like Los Angeles, Los Santos is a huge, sprawling co-mingling of cultures and perspectives, full of two-bit hoodlums and small-time and really big time actors and musicians. The population of 3,000,000 is divided into 27 districts, which are home to movie and television studios, multi-million dollar estates, crack-ridden suburbs, a racetrack, an observatory to satisfy stargazers, and the fourth busiest airport in the world. Occasionally, drug dealers are seen carrying huge wads of cash from recent transactions. Graffiti is commonplace and gambling venues like the racetrack are frequented by many of the city's denizens.

Storyline

Spoiler Warning: Plot details, ending details, or both are in the text which follows.

Spoiler Warning: Plot details, ending details, or both are in the text which follows.

Sunrise over Downtown.

Night view of Los Santos.

Los Santos is the hometown of protagonist Carl Johnson, who returns from living in Liberty City for five years, after his brother informs him of their mother's death. The game starts upon CJ's arrival in Los Santos, and the story revolves around a lengthy gang war between CJ's gang, The Grove Street Families, and their fiercest rivals, the Ballas. Tensions between rival Hispanic gangs, Varrios Los Aztecas and Los Santos Vagos, also threaten the tenuous hold with which GSF clings to its territories. However, due to the betrayal of senior members Big Smoke and Ryder, GSF leader Sweet Johnson is arrested and CJ is run out of town by C.R.A.S.H., causing the disbandment of the Grove Street Families and the mass takeover of Los Santos by the Ballas and Vagos, with the Ballas taking all of what used to be Grove Street territory.

The city is torn apart over the issue of gang warfare. The Grove Street Families and Ballas constantly spar over total dominance in Ganton, Idlewood, Jefferson, Willowfield, and even East Los Santos. In 1992, police officers Frank Tenpenny and Eddie Pulaski of C.R.A.S.H. (Community Resources Against Street Hoodlums) are charged with murder and sexual assault, after their extensive corruption becomes blatantly obvious, even to the general public. However, Pulaski had already been murdered by CJ in the Arco del Oeste area prior to those events, after he and Tenpenny, who were using CJ as their patsy, decide there is no more use for him. Alone at the court hearing, however, Tenpenny is released when the prosecutor inexplicably drops all charges. The entire city, outraged that Tenpenny walks free from horrendously heinous charges of which he is obviously guilty, erupts in riots. This is a reenactment of the L.A. Riots (also known as the Rodney King Riots) after the release of the police officers that brutally beat up Rodney King. During the ensuing chaos, CJ kills cocaine drug lord and ex-gang member Big Smoke. CJ then chases after Officer Tenpenny, who dies when his stolen Fire Truck careens off the side of the overpass over Grove Street. When news of Tenpenny's death reaches the people of Los Santos, the riots cease, and the Grove Street Families regain their spot as the strongest gang in the city.

Districts

Downtown Los Santos.

Central Los Santos

The middle section of the city and its business/financial district, containing major corporate headquarters in Downtown, skyscrapers, very busy streets, many tourists and shoppers, and civic-minded buildings around Pershing Square. Neighborhoods and areas include:

• Pershing Square (Pershing Square)

1. Beverly Hills City Hall (as the Los Santos Police Headquarters)
2. Los Angeles City Hall (as Los Santos City Hall)
3. Millennium Biltmore Hotel

• Downtown Los Santos (Downtown Los Angeles), Commerce (Civic Center) and Verdant Bluffs (Griffith Park)

1. Figueroa Tower
2. Gas Company Tower (as Midland Building)
3. Griffith Observatory (as Los Santos Observatory)
4. Los Angeles Convention Center (as the Los Santos Conference Center)
5. Tower Theater
6. Two California Plaza (as Corner Tower)
7. US Bank Tower (as Los Santos Tower)
8. Westin Bonaventure Hotel (located next to the Atrium)

• Mulholland Intersection (US 101 and SR 110 Intersection, Four Level Interchange)

1. 6th Street Viaduct
2. North Broadway Viaduct

West Los Santos

The Vinewood Sign.

The "wealthy", affluent and upper-class side of the city containing Vinewood, Rodeo and Mulholland, known around the world as the offices, studios, shopping destinations and homes of the rich and famous. Popular for tourists and also contains varied businesses. The various neighborhoods include:

• Mulholland (Hollywood Hills) and Richman (Bel Air)

1. Chemosphere
2. Hollywood Sign (as the Vinewood Sign)
3. Mulholland Drive (incorporated into Mulholland)
4. Stahl House (as the Mulholland Safehouse)

• Rodeo (Beverly Hills)

1. 100 Wilshire Boulevard
2. Beverly Wilshire Hotel
3. Century Plaza Hotel (as Rodeo Hotel)
4. Rodeo Drive (as Via Rodeo)
5. St. Regis Los Angeles Hotel & Spa

• Vinewood (Hollywood, West Hollywood), Temple (Hollywood), Market (Hollywood, Wilshire)

1. Argyle Hotel
2. Broadway Hollywood Building (Fatt Building)
3. El Capitan Theatre (as El Dritch Theater, across the street from Cathay Theater)
4. Capitol Records Building (as the Blastin' Fools Records Building)
5. Carney's Express Limited (as Hobos)
6. Chateau Marmont Hotel
7. Grauman's Chinese Theatre (as the Cathay Theater)
8. Hollywood Boulevard
9. Hollywood Masonic Temple (located just beside El Dritch, across the street from the Cathay Theater)
10. House of Blues
11. Hyatt West Hollywood
12. Melrose Avenue
13. Randy's Donuts (as Jim's Sticky Ring)
14. Standard Hotel (as The Bog Standard)
15. Sunset Boulevard
16. Sunset Vine Tower
17. Walk of Fame
18. Whisky a Go Go

• Santa Maria Beach (Santa Monica), Verona Beach (Venice Beach) and Marina (Marina del Rey)

1. Los Angeles Harbor Light (Los Santos Lighthouse)
2. Muscle Beach
3. Santa Monica Pier (incorporated into Santa Maria Beach, as Yacht Harbor)
4. Venice Boardwalk

East Los Santos

Ganton.

The "poor" side of the city, made up primarily of working-class suburbs, small-time businesses and stores, single-family homes and housing projects that are all subject to violent crime, gang violence, drug problems (especially crack-cocaine), car crime (e.g. carjackings), poverty, prostitution, unemployment, marked by the Ballas-Grove Street War and the area where the Los Santos Riots started, which eventually spread to the entire Los Santos area. Considered to be "the ghetto" of Los Santos.

Four different African-American and Hispanic gangs that are split into varying sets make their home in various neighborhoods here. Despite the crime, there are a minority of neighborhoods that are more middle-class and some areas contain some tourist destinations, such as the eastern beaches, Glen Park or the Jefferson Towers. The area is based on South Central Los Angeles. The various neighborhoods include:

• East Beach (Long Beach, Beach Cities), and Playa del Seville (Playa del Rey)

1. The Forum (as the Los Santos Forum)

• East Los Santos (East Los Angeles)

1. Watts Towers (Jefferson Towers)

• El Corona (Lennox) and Little Mexico (Olvera Street)

1. Dana Strand Village Housing Projects (as El Corona Village)
2. Twin Towers Correctional Facility
3. Union Station (as Unity Station)

• Ganton (Compton) and Idlewood (Inglewood)

1. Imperial Courts Housing Projects (as the Ganton Courts projects, where B Dup formerly resided)
2. Jordan Downs Housing Projects (as the Crystal Gardens projects where the crack house is in Cleaning The Hood)
3. Rosecrans Avenue (the main road in Ganton)
4. Shrine Auditorium (as the Alhambra)
5. Spruce Street (Grove Street)

• Jefferson (Watts) and Glen Park (Echo Park, MacArthur Park)

1. Los Angeles County General (County General Hospital)

• Las Colinas (Northeast Los Angeles) and Los Flores (Boyle Heights)
• Willowfield (Wilmington, Willowbrook)

1. Los Angeles River (as the Los Santos Storm Drain)
2. Nickerson Gardens (as the Willowfield Homes projects)

South Los Santos

Ocean Docks.

The industrial area of the city, containing port facilities, refinery towers, cranes and warehouses, as well as a National Guard Depot, in Ocean Docks and south Willowfield. The LSX airport is located to the west, in the southernmost end of the city.

• Ocean Docks (Port of Los Angeles)

1. Terminal Island (incorporated into Ocean Docks)
2. Vincent Thomas Bridge (as the Ocean Docks bridge connecting the Ocean Docks island)

• Los Santos International Airport (Los Angeles International Airport)

1. Theme Building

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Transport

Mulholland Intersection.

Important Highways/Streets

Numerous roads and a central rail line connect Los Santos to San Fierro and Las Venturas. The Los Santos Freeway, the longest highway in San Andreas, connects the city with Las Venturas and Red County. Other notable streets and highways in Los Santos include Vinewood Boulevard, Mulholland Drive, Fifth Avenue, Saints Boulevard and Interstate 125.

The most infamous street in the city is Grove Street, located in Ganton, southeast of Downtown and just minutes south of East Los Santos. Grove Street is home to the Families gang, a once powerful gang whose influence faded due to highly successful drug trafficking by the rival Ballas gang.

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Los Santos International.

Air and Seaport

Los Santos has the fourth busiest airport in the world, made up of five gates connected by a U-shaped two-level main terminal. The airport is located on the freeway and there are also direct road links into the center of the city. Ocean Docks is a busy container port, with good road connections with Las Venturas. The docks are served by a train depot on a line which connects it with Unity Station.

Rail

There are two Brown Streak Railroad stations in Los Santos: Unity Station, based on Union Station, and Market Station, possibly referring to the Wilshire/Western Station, and the only underground station of the state.

Crime

Los Santos is the most crime riddled city in the state, suffering from rampant gang violence, drug-trafficking (especially crack-cocaine), car crime (e.g. carjackings), prostitution and corruption on several levels. However, despite the city's size there is no real major organized crime element with the criminal underworld of the city (with the exception of a brief period of influence from the Russian Mafia); being primarily occupied by warring street gangs, drug lords and up-and-coming criminals. Eastern Los Santos is by far the most active city in terms of small-time street gangs (known as sets) with gang wars and gang related violence occurring on a regular basis. The city is home to several large and violent Hispanic and African-American gangs;

• Grove Families (Grove Street Families, Seville Boulevard Families, Temple Drive Families)
• Ballas (Front Yard Ballas, Rollin' Heights Ballas, Kilo Tray Ballas, Temple Drive Ballas)
• Los Santos Vagos
• Varrios Los Aztecas
• Russian Mafia (formerly)

The areas plagued with the most crime, gangs, prostitution and drug-trafficking include most of the areas of eastern Los Santos. Further, many crack dealers and prostitutes can be found in these neighborhoods. Pockets of neighborhoods and districts to the west also suffer from crime (primarily gang violence) but on a much lower scale. This includes Temple, Verona Beach and Santa Maria Beach.

Los Santos is the only city in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas that contains gang territories without exploiting a glitch in the game.

Sports Teams

Saints' logo.

Los Santos has two basketball teams, the Saints and the Dribblers, and a hockey team, called the Slappers. In 1992, Los Angeles held a hockey team, the Los Angeles Kings, two basketball teams, the Los Angeles Lakers and Los Angeles Clippers, along with two football teams, Los Angeles Raiders and Los Angeles Rams, with a baseball team, Los Angeles Dodgers, and another baseball team in Anaheim (a suburb of Los Angeles not depicted in the game), the Los Angeles Angels, whom the Saints could very well be named after. The Saints could also be named after the professional football team, the New Orleans Saints.

Notable Residents

• Alan Crawford (Formerly)
• Barry Thorne
• Beverly Johnson (Formerly)
• Big Devil (Formerly)
• Big Poppa (Formerly)
• Brian Johnson (Formerly)
• Carl Johnson
• Cesar Vialpando
• Colonel Fuhrberger
• Denise Robinson
• Dope
• Eddie Pulaski (Formerly)
• Emmet
• Frank Tenpenny (Formerly)
• Freddy (Formerly)
• Forth Right MC
• The Funktipus
• Gal
• Hazer
• Jeffrey Cross
• Jimmy Hernandez (Formerly)
• Jose
• Julio G
• Kane (Formerly)
• Kendl Johnson
• Lance Wilson (Formerly)
• LB
• Little Devil (Formerly)
• Little Weasel (Formerly)
• Madd Dogg
• Mark Wayne
• Melvin Harris (Formerly)
• Ralph Pendelbury (Formerly)
• Sunny
• Sweet's Girlfriend
• Sweet Johnson
• Three Deep
• Tony (GSF) (Formerly)

Trivia

• Although the HD Universe follows an alternate continuity to the 3D Universe, the 3D Universe rendition of Los Santos still has a cameo on the TV show I'm Rich, even showing CJ driving and skydiving.

The Los Santos Tourist guide.

• Los Santos is the only city in GTA San Andreas that has at least one outlet of each clothing store. 
• Although it is the most populous city in San Andreas, it has the smallest presence of Burger Shot outlets, with only two.
• Los Santos is misspelt "Las Santos" in a magazine in some houses.
• Curiously, many of the businesses that exist in Los Santos are actual real-life L.A. businesses that existed around 2003-04; Rockstar took photos of these for textures.
• In a Redwood Cigarettes radio commercial, it is said that "living in Los Santos is the equivalent to smoking a pack a day", a reference to the air pollution of the city.

See Also

• Los Santos (HD Universe)