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Playa Azul (en: Blue Beach) is a beachside town in the Mexican state of Michoacán. The city lives from tourism and fishing. It is the southern terminus of Federal Highway 37, which connects it with the state of San Luis Potosí. [2] The town was the epicentre of the Playa Azul earthquake, a magnitude M w 7.2 (M s 7.3) quake that struck on 24 ...
Playa Azul (Michoacán), beach town in Michoacán, Mexico; Playa Azul (Oaxaca), town in the municipality of Salina Cruz, Oaxaca, Mexico; Playa Azul (Uruguay) , town in Colonia department, Uruguay; Playa Azul, a beach in Huanchaco District, Peru; Playa Azul, a beach in Cazones de Herrera, Veracruz, Mexico; Playa Azul, a nickname for Varadero, Cuba
Real estate in the city of Coronado is very expensive. According to a recent county-wide ZIP code chart published in The San Diego Union-Tribune in August 2006, the median cost of a single-family home within the city's ZIP code of 92118 was $1,605,000. In 2010, Forbes.com found that the median home price in Coronado had risen to $1,840,665. [27]
The first European to set foot in what is now California, Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo, came ashore in 1542 at La Playa, probably at a small rocky peninsula called Ballast Point. [2] When a permanent European settlement was established a few miles inland in 1769, La Playa served as the town's "harbor", actually an anchorage where cargo was loaded ...
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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]
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 ...