Colinas De Capistrano

Colinas De Capistrano covers 151.9 acres in three pieces and holds 467 addresses on 480 parcels, at a median lot of 0.196 acres. Twenty-four named streets run 3.29 miles inside the boundary, almost all of them Spanish: Mira Vista, La Cumbre, La Cima, La Falda, La Pradera, Cresta Loma, Del Norte, Del Poniente, El Sur, El Oeste, Charreadas and Avenida Del Caballo. The city's zoning layer gives 99.2 acres to Single Family District 3 and holds 30.2 acres as open space.

The ground runs from 253 feet to 546 feet and splits between watersheds, with 357 parcels draining to Aliso Creek and 123 to San Juan Creek. The 2025 fire hazard layer rates 151.5 acres NonWildland, though the city still records fuel modification on 43 parcels inside the boundary. The Colinas Bluff Trail clips the edge of it. Three smaller associations sit inside the same ground and are drawn as their own polygons on the city's HOA layer: Villamira, Vista Del Cerro and Villa De Cerise, with Sparrow Hill and Bridgeport Terrace also naming this association as their master.

The name means the hills of Capistrano, and it points at the mission that started all of this. Rancho Niguel was carved out of Mission San Juan Capistrano's lands after Mexico secularized the missions, and Governor Juan B. Alvarado granted its 13,316 acres to Juan Avila in 1842, naming the rancho for Niguili, an Acjachemen village. The grant ran from Laguna Canyon past Aliso Creek toward Dana Point and San Juan Creek, and this boundary still straddles that split: 357 of its parcels drain to Aliso Creek and 123 to San Juan Creek.

Colinas de Capistrano is 467 homes across 152 acres in three pieces, and almost every one of its 24 streets is Spanish: Mira Vista, La Cumbre, La Cima, La Falda, La Pradera, Cresta Loma, Del Norte, Del Poniente, El Sur, El Oeste, Charreadas and Avenida Del Caballo. The city's record runs the years built from 1982 to 1994 with a median of 1984, and 187 homes carry 1985, so most of the community went up in about three years.