El Sobrante is a census-designated place ( CDP ) in Contra Costa County, California, United States.

The Spanish name ' El Sobrante ' translates to ' leftover ', ' remainder ', ' extra ' or ' surplus ' in English.

El Sobrante is unincorporated and lies within Contra Costa County.

Main roads include San Pablo Dam Road ( a major road running from Richmond and San Pablo, through El Sobrante, past EBMUD's San Pablo Reservoir ), Valley View Road and Appian Way.

El Sobrante also contains San Pablo Creek, running behind the library, ACE hardware store and many homes in El Sobrante.

and 1, 000 B. C., an indigenous tribe of people called the Huchiun, a sub-tribe of the Ohlone, came to the East Bay, including El Sobrante.

One of the Huichin villages was located where the El Sobrante Library now stands.

After Mexican independence from Spain in the early 19th century, Spanish colonists were given land grants, one of which was Rancho El Sobrante, deeded to Juan Jose and Víctor Castro in 1841.

Then the name Sobrante was applied, with the addition of the Spanish definite article " El " coinciding with the opening of the first post office in 1941.

By the early 20th century, Rancho El Sobrante had been reduced to a number of smaller ranches, generally following a dirt road along San Pablo Creek.

As roads were paved and homes were constructed, El Sobrante changed from a rural to a semi-rural community.

El Sobrante is home to a growing Sikh population.

The center of the Sikh community is the Gurdwara Sahib of El Sobrante.

The 2010 United States Census reported that El Sobrante had a population of 12, 669.

The racial makeup of El Sobrante was 6, 405 ( 50. 6 %) White, 1, 673 ( 13. 2 %) African American, 127 ( 1. 0 %) Native American, 1, 986 ( 15. 7 %) Asian, 113 ( 0. 9 %) Pacific Islander, 1, 384 ( 10. 9 %) from other races, and 981 ( 7. 7 %) from two or more races.

El Sobrante is also home to a growing Sikh population.

The center of the Sikh community is the Gurdwara Sahib of El Sobrante ( known for its large golden dome ) which sits high in the hills above San Pablo Dam Road.

The El Sobrante Library of the Contra Costa County Library is located in El Sobrante.

El Dorado was surrounded by a mob.

Operating budget for the day schools in the five counties of Dallas, Harris, Bexar, Tarrant and El Paso would be $451,500, which would be a savings of $157,460 yearly after the first year's capital outlay of $88,000 was absorbed, Parkhouse told the Senate.

The announcement that the city would sue for recovery on the performance bond was made by City Solicitor David Berger at a press conference following a meeting in the morning with Wagner and other officials of the city and the PTC as well as representatives of an engineering firm that was pulled off the El project before its completion in 1959.

Everybody else was allowed to file off the plane after it touched down at El Paso at 4:18 a.m..

In need of a model for his statuette, Gibbons was introduced by his future wife Dolores del Río to Mexican film director and actor Emilio " El Indio " Fernández.

In philosophy and the humanities, Jacques Derrida, the father of deconstruction, was born in El Biar in Algiers ; Malek Bennabi and Frantz Fanon are noted for their thoughts on decolonization ; Augustine of Hippo was born in Tagaste ( modern-day Souk Ahras ); and Ibn Khaldun, though born in Tunis, wrote the Muqaddima while staying in Algeria.

It was the mutual bond and obligation between monarch and subjects, whereby subjects are called his liege subjects, because they are bound to obey and serve him ; and he is called their liege lord, because he should maintain and defend them ( Ex parte Anderson ( 1861 ) 3 El & El 487 ; 121 ER 525 ; China Navigation Co v Attorney-General ( 1932 ) 48 TLR 375 ; Attorney-General v Nissan 1 All ER 629 ; Oppenheimer v Cattermole 3 All ER 1106 ).

Alfonso XII ( born Alfonso Francisco de Asís Fernando Pío Juan María de la Concepción Gregorio Pelayo ) ( Madrid, 28 November 1857 – El Pardo, 25 November 1885 ) was King of Spain, reigning from 1874 to 1885, after a coup d ' état restored the monarchy and ended the ephemeral First Spanish Republic.

Also, the old airfield at Rabasa was closed and air traffic moved to the new El Altet Airport, which made a more convenient and modern facility for charter flights bringing tourists from northern European countries.

" El Shaddai " was later awarded one of the " Songs of the Century " by the RIAA in 2001.

ARIN formerly covered Argentina, Aruba, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Dutch West Indies, Ecuador, El Salvador, Falkland Islands ( UK ), French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay, and Venezuela until LACNIC was formed.

She has uncovered the politics behind the New York City Greenmarket, and was among the first to publish a long-form article in a major American newspaper about Ferran Adria of El Bulli.

He was awarded the World Music Award for Best Selling Middle Eastern Artist three times: 1998 for album " Nour El Ain ", 2002 for album " Aktrr Wahed Byhbak 2001 " and 2007 for album " El Lillady ".

In 1986, U. S. President Ronald Reagan ( who survived an assassination attempt himself ) ordered the Operation El Dorado Canyon air raid on Libya in which one of the primary targets was the home residence of Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi.

Carl Boenish was the real catalyst behind modern BASE jumping, and in 1978, he filmed the first BASE jumps to be made using ram-air parachutes and the freefall tracking technique ( from El Capitan, in Yosemite National Park ).

While BASE jumps had been made prior to that time, the El Capitan activity was the effective birth of what is now called BASE jumping.

The rainforest was also greatly destroyed from the forest fires of 1997 to 1998, which were started by the locals to clear the forests for crops and perpetuated by an exceptionally dry El Niño season during that period.

He later served in the Mesopotamian Campaign in Iraq, where he was badly wounded at El Hannah after being hit in the leg by shrapnel from an exploding shell while taking enemy trenches.

This union consisted of the present day nations of Guatemala ( which included the former state of Los Altos ), El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica ( which included a region which is now part of Panama, and the Guanacaste Province which was once part of Nicaragua ), and Soconusco, a portion of the modern Mexican state of Chiapas.

In the Renaissance, Crete was the home of the Cretan School of icon painting, which influenced El Greco and through him subsequent European painting.

For example, at least one El Borak in which the protagonist infiltrates the City of the assassins was rewritten with Conan replacing Francis Xavier Gordon and a supernatural element added.

The Battles occurred in Egypt in and around an area named after a railway stop called El Alamein at.

El Cid's army had a novel approach to planning strategy as well, holding what might be called brainstorming sessions before each battle to discuss tactics.

El Cid also had a sword called Colada.

In popular usage, the El Niño – Southern Oscillation is often called just " El Niño ".

It has also in the past been called anti-El Niño, and El Viejo ( meaning " the old man ").

The traditional Niño, also called Eastern Pacific ( EP ) El Niño, involves temperature anomalies in the Eastern Pacific.

The phenomenon is called Central Pacific ( CP ) El Niño, " dateline " El Niño ( because the anomaly arises near the dateline ), or El Niño " Modoki " ( Modoki is Japanese for " similar, but different ").

It had a monastery called El Carmen, founded in 1628.

During the 1990s in Argentina, there appeared a stirnerist publication called El Único: publicacion periódica de pensamiento individualista.

In the animated television series The Mysterious Cities of Gold, which chronicles the adventures of a Spanish boy and his companions traveling throughout South America in 1532 to seek the lost city of El Dorado, a woman called " Marinche " becomes a dangerous adversary.

Perez Prado, dedicated primarily to Mambo, started being called El Rey del Mambo, and he appeared in several Mexican Films.

Ernest Hemingway made the bar called La Bodeguita del Medio famous as he became one of its regulars and he wrote " My mojito in La Bodeguita, My daiquiri in El Floridita.

In Spain, this type of party is called " El Aguinaldo ".

Fernando III called El Santo ( the Saint ), ( 1198 / 1199 – 30 May 1252 ) was a king of Castile ( 1217 – 1252 ) and Leon ( 1230 – 1252 ).

Began in Indonesia, called El Tor after the strain, and reached Bangladesh in 1963, India in 1964, and the USSR in 1966.

* The Suez Canal Bridge (), also called the Egyptian-Japanese Friendship Bridge, is a high-level road bridge at El Qantara.

A previous project of the same kind, called Talmud El Am, " Talmud to the people ", was published in Israel in 1960s-80s.