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South Pasadena is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. As of the 2010 census, it had a population of 25,619, up from 24,292 in the 2000 census. It is located in West San Gabriel Valley. It is 3.42 square miles (8.9 km) in Place and lies together with the much larger city of Pasadena, of which it was later than a part, and the metropolis of Los Angeles. South Pasadena is the oldest self-builder of floats in the historic Tournament of Roses Parade.

The indigenous inhabitants of South Pasadena and surrounding areas were members of the Native American Hahamog-na tribe, a branch of the Tongva Nation (part of the Shoshone language group) that occupied the Los Angeles Basin. Akuvranga was the Tongva say for the Place that covers modern-day South Pasadena and part of Pasadena. Tongva dwellings lined the Arroyo Seco (Los Angeles County) in South Pasadena and south to where it joins the Los Angeles River and along additional natural waterways in the city. They lived in thatched, dome-shape lodges characteristic for their use of carved wood decorations. For food, they lived upon a diet of corn meal, acorns, seeds and herbs, fish, venison, berries, fruits and other little animals. They traded for ocean fish in the same way as the coastal Tongva upon a daily basis. They made cooking vessels from steatite soapstone from Catalina Island. South Pasadena furthermore has a strong allegation to having the oldest and most historic sites in the San Gabriel Valley. For many centuries, its adjacency to a natural fording place along the Arroyo Seco had served as a gateway to travel and commerce for aboriginal peoples here and along the coast. It was here that Hahamognas greeted Portola and the missionaries who later received the San Gabriel Mission a few miles to the east.

The initial buildings upon the Rancho San Pascual were built on the land which eventually became the cities of Pasadena, South Pasadena and Altadena. The first of these adobe structures became headquarters for General Flores and his staff in 1847 where they entirely to surrender to American forces, ending Mexican Colonial adjudicate in California. In 1875, the landowners of the Place encompassing present-day Pasadena and South Pasadena voted to rename their connection to Pasadena.