A last name originating in Portugal. Very rare, and their subjects infest the areas of Bell Gardens, Norwalk, Whittier, Riverside, and mostly Downey. If you're an Oropeza or marry into the Oropeza family, be prepared for some intense druggies and shitloads of weed. All good-looking and tightly-knit, but with many secrets.

When you eat dirt for the first time and leave your family to build a shack in the woods

A surname originating from Southern Spain. The Oropezas from San Francisco and Los Angeles all come from a small town in Los Altos Jalisco named El Valle de Guadalupe. A popular mariachi song, “El Corrido de los Perez,” was written about them. They also, collectively, own the largest ranch in Jalisco. They are good, hard-working, respectful people from the country.