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|caption = From to left: [[Downtown Los Santos]], [[Santa Maria Beach]], Los Santos Observatory and [[Vinewood Sign]].

|games = [[Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas]]

|name = Los Santos

|pop = 3,000,000

Los Santos' [[Los Santos Police Department|police]] are corrupt and the politicians avoid the streets like the plague. There is a motocross track, several basketball courts, and an observatory (modeled after the Griffith Observatory) to satisfy stargazers. Occasionally, independent drug dealers are seen carrying huge wads of cash from recent transactions. [[Graffiti]] is commonplace and gambling venues like the racetrack are frequented by many of the city's denizens. The suburbs nestled in the north hills (modeled after the Hollywood Hills) are home to wealthy businessmen, movie stars, and [[Madd Dogg]], the killer rap artist, alike. The occasional shack or trailer park can also be spotted within this highly affluent district, testaments to the period prior to the gentrification of northern Los Santos.

Los Santos is the hometown of GTA San Andreas protagonist [[Carl Johnson]], who returns from living in [[Liberty City in GTA III|Liberty City]] for five years, after his brother informs him of their mother's death. The game starts upon CJ's arrival in Los Santos, and the story revolves around a lengthy [[Gang Warfare in GTA San Andreas|gang wars]] between CJ's gang, The [[Grove Street Families]], and their fiercest rivals, the [[Ballas]]. Tensions between rival Hispanic gangs, [[Varrios Los Aztecas]] and [[Los Santos Vagos]], also threaten the tenuous hold with which [[Grove Street Families|GSF]] clings to its paltry territories. However, due to the betrayal of senior members [[Big Smoke]] and [[Ryder]], GSF leader [[Sweet Johnson]] is arrested and CJ is run out of town by [[C.R.A.S.H.]], causing the disbandment of the Grove Street Families and the mass takeover of Los Santos by the Ballas and Vagos, with the Ballas taking all of what used to be Grove Street territory.

The city is torn apart over the issue of gang warfare. The Grove Street Families and Ballas constantly spar over total dominance in [[Ganton]], [[Idlewood]], [[Jefferson, Los Santos|Jefferson]], [[Willowfield]], and even [[East Los Santos in GTA III Era|East Los Santos]]. In 1992, police officers [[Frank Tenpenny]] and [[Eddie Pulaski]] of [[C.R.A.S.H.]] (Community Resources Against Street Hoodlums) are charged with murder and sexual assault, after their extensive corruption becomes blatantly obvious, even to the general public. However, Pulaski had already been murdered by CJ in the [[Arco del Oeste]] area prior to those events, after he and Tenpenny, who were using CJ as their patsy, decide there is no more use for him. Alone at the court hearing, however, Tenpenny is released when the prosecutor inexplicably drops all charges. The entire city, outraged that Tenpenny walks free from horrendously heinous charges of which he is obviously guilty, erupts in riots. This is a reenactment of the L.A. Riots (also known as the [[wikipedia:Los Angeles riots of 1992|Rodney King Riots]]) after the release of the police officers that brutally beat up [[wikipedia:Rodney King|Rodney King]]. During the ensuing chaos, CJ kills cocaine drug lord and ex-gang member [[Big Smoke]]. CJ then chases after Officer Tenpenny, who dies when his stolen [[Fire Truck]] careens off the side of the overpass over Grove Street. When news of Tenpenny's death reaches the people of Los Santos, the riots cease, and the Grove Street Families regain their spot as the strongest gang in Los Santos.

[[File:LosSantos-GTASA-map.jpg|thumb|right|333px|Streetmap of Los Santos]]

[[File:VinewoodSign-GTASA.jpg|thumb|right|250px|The Vinewood Sign]]

The "wealthy" side of town containing Vinewood, Rodeo and Mulholland, known around the world as the offices, studios, shopping destinations and homes of the rich and famous.

*[[Rodeo]] ([[:wp:Beverly Hills, California|Beverly Hills]])

#Venice Boardwalk

The "poor" side of the city, made up primarily of lower-class suburbs that are all subject to violent crime, marked by the [[Ballas-Grove Street War]] and the area where the [[Los Santos Riots]] started, which eventually spread to the entire Los Santos area..

*[[East Beach]] ([[:wp:Long Beach, California|Long Beach]]) and [[Playa del Seville]] ([[:wp:Playa del Ray, California|Playa del Ray]])

#[[Los Santos Storm Drain]] ([[:wp:Los Angeles River|Los Angeles River]])

The middle section of the city, containing major corporate headquarters in Downtown, civic-minded buildings around Pershing Square, and their airport.

*[[Pershing Square]] ([[:wp:Pershing Square (Los Angeles)|Pershing Square]])

#6th Street Bridge

*[[Unity Station]] ([[:wp:Union Station (Los Angeles)|Union Station]])

*[[Market Station]] ([[:wp:Wilshire/Western (LACMTA station)|Wilshire/Western Station]])

Los Santos is the only city that has gang territories (without exploiting the [[Territory Glitch]]). There are 57 territories in Los Santos.

Los Santos generally experiences hot and fine [[weather]], which is frequently accompanied by haze. Occasionally, Los Santos also experience showers, but almost never thunderstorms which last long. Mist sometimes occurs which usually restricts you from visualising the tips of the skyscrapers located throught [[Downtown Los Santos]].

Los Santos has a baseball team, the [[Los Santos Saints]]. Oddly, this is the only known sports team in Los Santos in 1992. In 1992, Los Angeles held a hockey team, the [[:wp:Los Angeles Kings|Los Angeles Kings]], two basketball teams, the [[:wp:Los Angeles Lakers|Los Angeles Lakers]] and [[:wp:Los Angeles Clippers|Los Angeles Clippers]], along with two football teams, [[:wp:Los Angeles Raiders|Los Angeles Raiders]] and [[:wp:Los Angeles Rams|Los Angeles Rams]], with a baseball team, [[:wp:Los Angeles Dodgers|Los Angeles Dodgers]] and another baseball team in Anaheim, a suburb of Los Angeles not depicted in the game, the [[:wp:Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim|Los Angeles Angels]], whom the Saints could very well be named after.

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