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The Corral Canyon is a valley in Los Angeles County, California, United States. Located in the Santa Monica Mountains , it slopes down to the striking and diverse terrain of the Malibu coast . [ 1 ]
Its source is in Corral Canyon, 1.9 miles (3.1 km) north of Mount Boardman in San Joaquin County. It then flows north 1.89 miles where it turns to flow west-northwest 8.5 miles (13.7 km) into Alameda County and Corral Hollow, then turns abruptly east in the vicinity of Tesla to flow 2.5 miles (4.0 km) east, into San Joaquin County again, and another 2.5 miles to where it turns again in a ...
El Nido (Spanish for "The Nest") is a residential neighborhood in Corral Canyon in unincorporated Los Angeles County, California, United States. The community, originally developed in the 1920s, [2] is in the Santa Monica Mountains along the northern border of Malibu. [3] There are two developments in Corral Canyon, El Nido is the lower of the ...
Corral Hollow is located at the junction of the San Joaquin Valley and the Coast Ranges which border it to the west. [4] It is northernmost of a number of east-west valleys running from the Diablo Range into the San Joaquin Valley, and is the northern limit for a number of desert-adapted species of plants and animals, [4] including glossy snakes, black-headed snakes, and spadefoot toads. [7]
In the 1860s, the first Chinese people moved to the downtown area. [19] In the 1870s, the Chinese were the primary fishermen in the area. [20] Beginning in the 1880s, a large number of Chinese began to move to San Diego, establishing a concentration; with up to 200 Chinese making up a minority of the 8,600 who lived in all of San Diego. [21]
Malibu Creek State Park is a state park of California, United States, preserving the Malibu Creek canyon in the Santa Monica Mountains. The 8,215-acre (3,324 ha) park was established in 1974. [1] Opened to the public in 1976, the park is also a component of Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area.
Located in the Diablo Range backcountry east of Morgan Hill, CA - between the San Antonio Valley (north) and Pacheco Pass (south), the park consists of a series of high ridges separated by steep walled canyons, with occasional level valley bottoms and distinct peaks. Most of the ridges run around 2,000 to 3,000 feet (610 to 910 m) in elevation ...
The original Switzer Canyon trolley bridge, circa 1908. Switzer Canyon was named after E. D. Switzer who moved there in 1869 and occupied a five-acre farm at the downtown extremity of the canyon. [3] The remoteness from downtown San Diego allowed Switzer canyon to be used as an isolation camp during the city's smallpox scare of 1887. At the ...