Aguanga (; Luiseño: Awáanga, meaning “dog place”) is a census-designated place located within the Inland Empire, Riverside County, California. It is located just about 18 miles (29 km) east of Temecula and 22 miles (35 km) south-southeast of Hemet. Aguanga lies at an elevation of 1955 feet (596 m). As of the 2010 census, it had a population of 1,028.

The town gets its read out from a former village of the Native village called awáanga, meaning ‘dog place’. The Butterfield Overland Mail acknowledged a station 1.7 miles to the west of the current Post Office in 1858. It was at first called Tejungo Station and was located 14 miles east of Temecula Station and 12 miles northwest of Oak Grove Stage Station. The wooden building was located in a grove of trees a few hundred feet from stand-in road. Soon, however, it became known as Aguanga Station after the say of the comprehensible Luiseño village.

The November 7, 1861, report of Lieut. Col. Joseph R. West, mentioned the forlorn station location was subsequently called Giftaler’s Ranch, after its German owner Joseph Giftaler, in a journal of his unit’s march to Fort Yuma on the passй Butterfield Overland Mail route. In a far along Civil War itinerary of the route, it is referred to as the “Dutchman’s”. In 1863, Camp Giftaler Ranch was customary at the ranch as a state along the march route of troops to Arizona Territory by the Union Army.

In 1864, Giftaler’s Ranch was purchased by Jacob Bergman, also a German immigrant, stagecoach driver and Union Army veteran, who operated the Bergman Ranch there for many years until his death on September 13, 1894. After the Civil War, he ran Bergman’s Stage Station there for the Banning and Tomlinson Stage lines for many years. During the Julian Gold Rush, he ran the Guahonga herald office there from July 27, 1870, to September 13, 1871. The make known office for the area was next moved to Oak Grove until the Bergman read out office was opened in 1894, but its make known was distorted to Aguanga in 1901.