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San Pedro Bay is an inlet on the Pacific Ocean coast of Southern California, United States. It is the site of the Port of Los Angeles and the Port of Long Beach , which together form the fifth-busiest port facility in the world (behind the ports of Shanghai , Singapore , Hong Kong , and Shenzhen ) and the busiest in the Americas.
In 1868 Banning created the Los Angeles & San Pedro Railroad, Southern California's first railroad and used it to transport goods from San Pedro Bay to Los Angeles, which soon became a major city in Southern California. [13] 1859 survey map of Rancho San Pedro. San Pedro was a township in the 1860 census.
For instance, a Spanish map from 1548 depicts California as a peninsula, [8] while a 1622 Dutch map depicts California as an island. [citation needed] A 1626 Portuguese map depicts the land as a peninsula, [citation needed] while a 1630 British map depicts it as an island. [9] A French map from 1682 only shows the tip of the Baja Peninsula.
File history; File usage ... Sloughs and rivers of San Pedro Bay, 1900, USGS topographic map “Southern California Sheet No. 1 ... Sloughs and rivers of San Pedro ...
Monterey Peninsula – between Monterey Bay, the Salinas Valley, and the Santa Lucia Range in Monterey County. Palos Verdes Peninsula – along the Pacific between Santa Monica Bay and San Pedro Bay, in the South Bay Region of Los Angeles County. Point Loma Peninsula – between San Diego Bay and the Pacific Ocean in San Diego.
October 8: Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo sails from Catalina Island to San Pedro Bay and names it Bay of Smoke. October 9: Cabrillo Anchors in Santa Monica Bay then Departs North. November 23: Cabrillo on his return trip Anchors and Lands in Catalina Island to overwinter and make repairs. The Party of Explorers departed a short time later.
San Pedro Bay grew into one of the world's great ports, and Santa Monica was transformed into a glamorous beach resort, with powerful impacts on the region's urban geography. [2] A 16-mile strip of land (26 km), from Downtown Los Angeles to San Pedro and Wilmington, would soon be part of the City of Los Angeles.
Promoted as "America's Port", the port is located in San Pedro Bay in the San Pedro and Wilmington neighborhoods of Los Angeles, approximately 20 miles (32 km) south of downtown. The port has 25 cargo terminals, 82 container cranes, 8 container terminals, and 113 miles (182 km) of on-dock rail.