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La Playa (Spanish, 'the beach') is a bayfront neighborhood in the Point Loma community of San Diego, California. It is bordered by San Diego Bay to the east, Naval Base Point Loma to the south, the Wooded Area neighborhood to the west and Point Loma Village/ Roseville-Fleetridge to the north. [ 1 ]
United States Boundary Survey of the San Diego, California area, 1850, showing La Playa Trail from La Playa to Old San Diego and the Mission. La Playa Trail was a historic bayside trail in San Diego, connecting the settled inland areas to the commercial anchorage at Old La Playa on San Diego Bay. (La Playa means "the beach" in Spanish.)
The area has a desert climate.At the bay's north end lies Punta la Gringa and Playa Rincon to the south. To the west is the Sierra de San Borja responsible for the occasional hot, dry winds known locally as "Westies" which can go from zero to over 50 knots in a matter of minutes. [10]
La Playa (de Ponce), a barrio in Ponce, Puerto Rico; La Playa, San Diego, a bayfront neighborhood in Point Loma, San Diego, California, U.S. La Playa Trail, a historic route in San Diego, California, U.S. La Playa DC, a 2012 Colombian film directed by Juan Andrés Arango "La Playa", a song by La Oreja de Van Gogh from the 2000 album El viaje de ...
Playa del Rey: Ballona Wetlands and Creek, 1902 Playa del Rey lagoon, hotel, pavilion and pier, c. 1908. Lower Playa del Rey was originally wetlands and sand dune soil, but natural flooding was halted by levees made of earthen soil, boulders and reinforced concrete with a soft-bottom submerged soil that promotes both tidal flow in good weather and facilitated the flow of freshwater into the ...
By the 1830s, La Playa had one of the best roads in Puerto Rico (today's Avenida Hostos), connecting the shore settlement to the city proper, and La Playa was the center of Ponce's commercial activity. [13] As a result, most advances, innovation and progress often happened in La Playa before it happened in the city of Ponce.
looking down the cliffs overlooking Pacific Beach north of Crystal Pier. The beach stretches for miles from the Mission Bay jetty to the cliffs of La Jolla.The boardwalk, officially called Ocean Front Walk/Ocean Boulevard, is a pedestrian walkway that runs approximately 3.2 miles along the beach from the end of Law St. in the north down into Mission Beach, ending at the mouth of Mission Bay in ...
The South Bay is a region of the Los Angeles metropolitan area, located in the southwest corner of Los Angeles County. The name stems from its geographic location stretching along the southern shore of Santa Monica Bay. The South Bay contains sixteen cities plus portions of the City of Los Angeles and unincorporated portions of the county. The ...