Californio

plural Californios

1. historicalA Spanish-speaking Roman Catholic Californian living in California before the Mexican–American War.

   Jackson drew her setting and story in part from interviews with Antonio Coronel, a prominent Californio politician and rancher who contributed his own testimonial to Bancroft's research project.

   2015, Blake Allmendinger, editor, A History of California Literature, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 47