Alamo Solo Spring, a spring directly east of the Dagany Gap

Dagany Gap

Dagany Gap, a gap in the Pyramid Hills of Kern County, California. It is bounded on the west by Sunflower Valley and on the northeast by the Kettleman Plain and southeast by the Antelope Plain....

 in the Pyramid Hills

Pyramid Hills

The Pyramid Hills are a mountain range in the interior California Coast Ranges, in western Kings County, California....

 of Kern County, California

Kern County, California

Spreading across the southern end of the California Central Valley, Kern County is the fifth-largest county by population in California. Its economy is heavily linked to agriculture and to petroleum extraction, and there is a strong aviation and space presence. Politically, it has generally...

.

History

Before the advent of the Spanish, Alamo Solo Spring was the site of a large Indian village covering about 100 acre

Acre

The acre is a unit of area in a number of different systems, including the imperial and U.S. customary systems. The most commonly used acres today are the international acre and, in the United States, the survey acre. The most common use of the acre is to measure tracts of land.The acre is related...

s. Alamo Solo Spring was considered one of the most reliable watering places on the route of El Camino Viejo

El Camino Viejo

El Camino Viejo à Los Angeles , also known as the Old Los Angeles Trail, established in 1820's, was the oldest north-south trail in the interior of Alta California...

 in the San Joaquin Valley

San Joaquin Valley

The San Joaquin Valley is the area of the Central Valley of California that lies south of the Sacramento – San Joaquin River Delta in Stockton...

 between Arroyo de las Garzas

Garza Creek

Garza Creek, originally El Arroyo de las Garzas . Its source on the north slope of Zwang Peak in Kings County. It flows east-northeast through Kreyenhagen Hills to terminate in the Kettleman Plain, 3.6 miles west northwest of Avenal.- History :Arroyo de las Garzas was a watering place on the route...

 and Aguaje La Brea. At Alamo Solo Spring the route of El Camino Viejo split, the main route continuing north to Arroyo de las Garzas and beyond and the other turned onto the eastern route of the Old Road that passed to the east and followed the shore of Tulare Lake

Tulare Lake

Tulare Lake, named Laguna de Tache by the Spanish, is a fresh-water dry lake with residual wetlands and marshes in southern San Joaquin Valley, California...

, proceeding northward across the Kings River

Kings River

-In the United States:*Kings River, former name of Centerville, Fresno County, California*Kings River in Arkansas and Missouri, United States*Kings River in California, United States*Kings River in Nevada, United States...

 to settlements on the Fresno Slough

Fresno Slough

Fresno Slough is a distibutary of the Kings River that connects the North Fork Kings River to the San Joaquin River. Until 1879, when irrigation diversions prevented it, Fresno Slough was also an outlet of the overflow waters of Tulare Lake into the San Joaquin River in flood years, when its...

 and San Joaquin River

San Joaquin River

The San Joaquin River is the largest river of Central California in the United States. At over long, the river starts in the high Sierra Nevada, and flows through a rich agricultural region known as the San Joaquin Valley before reaching Suisun Bay, San Francisco Bay, and the Pacific Ocean...

 before it turned back to rejoin the main route at Arroyo de Panoche Grande.