Cahuenga, California

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Cahuenga ( (also Kawé’nga, Cabeugna, Kowanga, Kawengha, Kawee’nga, or Cabuenga) or "place of the hill" is a former Tongva–Tataviam (Fernandeño–Gabrieleño) Native American settlement in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California. One source suggests kawe means mountain in Tongva language. Recent linguistic work suggests an alternative meaning of "place of the fox". The Tongva-language suffix -nga indicates place, and the suffix -bet or -bit indicates person from place; people from Cahuenga were recorded in mission registers as Capuebet.

The precise location of the village is unknown but it was near the Mission San Fernando Rey de España, possibly near present-day Universal City. In a 2019 map, the village was placed near the Valley Village neighborhood in Los Angeles. Archeologists commissioned by the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) to investigate the Campo de Cahuenga historic site state "this vicinity was important as the place traditionally identified as the ethnographic village of Kaweenga (various spellings)."