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Los Gatos is an incorporated town in Santa Clara County, California, United States. The population was 28,592 at the 2000 census. It is located in the San Francisco Bay Area, on the edge of Silicon Valley on the southwest corner of San Jose in the foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains. Homes are mostly upscale, varying from one million-dollar cottages in the village itself to 7- or 8-million-dollar large custom homes in the surrounding hills. The town is noted for its small but upscale downtown, with many chic shops and restaurants. It is also a preferred destination for antique shopping.
The name Los Gatos is Spanish, meaning the cats. The name derives from the 1839 Alta California land-grant that encompassed the area, which was called Rancho Rinconada de Los Gatos, ("the corner of the cats"), where "the cats" refers to the wild cats (bobcats and mountain lions) that are indigenous to the Santa Cruz Mountains in whose foothills the town is nestled. The name is normally pronounced in anglicized form, sounding like las gaddis (lɑsˈgæɾɪs), although one also hears pronunciations truer to the original Spanish, lohs GAH tos . (...) more....

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