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Calabasas is a city in Los Angeles County in the southwestern San Fernando Valley, set between the foothills of the Santa Monica and Santa Susana mountains, with a population of 23,241 at the 2020 census, up from 23,058 in 2010.

Calabasas was incorporated on April 5, 1991, making it the newest city in Los Angeles County.

The name Calabasas derives from the Spanish word 'calabazas', meaning squashes or pumpkins, and Spanish botanist José Longinos Martínez first recorded 'Las Calabazas' as a place name in 1792.

A local legend says the name came from an 1824 incident in which a Basque rancher's wagonload of pumpkins spilled and the seeds sprouted the following spring, while another theory traces it to the Chumash word 'calahoosa', meaning 'where the wild geese fly'.

The Leonis Adobe in Old Town Calabasas, dating to 1844, is one of the oldest existing buildings in greater Los Angeles and anchors the city's historic district.

Calabasas adopted an Old Town Master Plan in 1994 and a Historic Preservation Ordinance on January 2, 2008, to protect its Old Town heritage.

Large-scale development of Calabasas only took off after the Las Virgenes Municipal Water District was formed in 1958 and through the late 1960s, since the area previously lacked a reliable water supply.

Calabasas covers about 13.7 square miles, and the Mont Calabasas community was annexed into the city in 2011.

The 2020 census counted 8,850 households in Calabasas, and about 70% of its occupied homes were owner-occupied.

One of the city's oldest neighborhoods, Park Moderne, was a former artists' colony whose streets are named after birds - Meadow Lark, Blackbird, Bluebird and Hummingbird - and the historic El Camino Real route passes through Calabasas as the Ventura Freeway (US 101).