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The Hacienda La Puente Unified School District (HLPUSD) is a school district located in Southern California.It is the largest school district in the east San Gabriel Valley in terms of student population, serving 20,000 students from the unincorporated community of Hacienda Heights, portions of the cities of Industry, La Puente and West Covina and portions of the unincorporated communities of ...
Puente Hills Landfill was the largest landfill in the United States, rising 500 feet (150 meters) high and covering 700 acres (2.8 km 2 ). [1] Originally opened in 1957 in a back canyon in the Puente Hills, the landfill was made to meet the demands of urbanization and waste-disposal east of Los Angeles. By the 1990s, the landfill became an ...
North of La Puente is West Covina which is 26% Asian and south of La Puente is Hacienda Heights which is 36% Asian Hacienda Heights is home to the Hsi Lai Temple, the largest Buddhist temple in the United States. The temple encompasses 15 acres (61,000 m 2) and a floor area of 102,432 sq ft (9,516.2 m 2).
It started as a joint program between the Hacienda La Puente Unified School District and the La Puente Valley Regional Occupational Program. They have won awards for building and racing a solar car in international competition, and won 1st place in the DaimlerChrysler/Trellis Build Your Dream Vehicle Competition in 2005 and 2006. [9]
The San Gabriel Valley ( Spanish: Valle de San Gabriel ), often referred to by its initials as SGV, is one of the principal valleys of Southern California, with the city of Los Angeles directly bordering it to the west, and occupying the vast majority of the southeastern part of Los Angeles County. Surrounding landforms and other features ...
Fo Guang Shan Hsi Lai Temple ( Chinese: 佛光山西來寺; pinyin: Fóguāngshān Xīlái Sì) is a mountain monastery in the northern Puente Hills, Hacienda Heights, Los Angeles County, California. The name Hsi Lai means "coming west". Hsi Lai Temple is a branch of Fo Guang Shan, a Buddhist organization from Taiwan.
William Workman High School. / 34.02917°N 117.93667°W / 34.02917; -117.93667. William Workman High School is the only public high school located in City of Industry, California. It is one of four high schools in the Hacienda La Puente Unified School District. For sports, it is a member of the Montview League .
626 [6] FIPS code. 06-40340. GNIS feature IDs. 1660865, 2411581. Website. www .lapuente .org. La Puente ( Spanish for "The Bridge") [7] is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. The city had a population of 39,816 at the 2010 census and is approximately 20 miles (32 km) east of downtown Los Angeles .