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Las Pozas ("the Pools") is a surrealistic group of structures created by Edward James, more than 2,000 feet (610 m) above sea level, in a subtropical rainforest in the Sierra Gorda mountains of Mexico. It includes more than 80 acres (32 ha) of natural waterfalls and pools interlaced with towering surrealist sculptures in concrete.
Cerro de las Burras is set in Big Bend Ranch State Park and the Chihuahuan Desert. The mountain is composed of 27.1 Ma basalt and tuff, overlaying 32 Ma conglomerate and sandstone. [4] Charles Christopher Parry walked to this mountain on August 24, 1852, during the United States and Mexican Boundary Survey. [5]
The grant extends along the Arroyo Simi (river) in the western Simi Valley and southern Oxnard Plain, from near present-day Moorpark to Camarillo. Rancho Simi bordered it on the east; Rancho Calleguas, and the Las Posas Hills and Simi Hills on the south; Rancho Santa Clara del Norte and Arroyo del Las Posas (river) on the west; and the western Santa Susana Mountains on the north.
Most of these salons are located under the Cerro de la Corona, a limestone mountain ridge. [6] The publicly-open portion is essentially a two-km-long, level passage of linked “salons” or borehole openings. [4] These salons average about forty meters wide, [6] and vary in height from twenty to 81 meters. [2]
Northbound Lewis Road at Las Posas Road. Eastbound Highway 118 at Wells Road. Westbound Highway 118 at Tierra Rejada Road. Evacuation orders.
It was established in 1892 by Thomas Bard and D.T. Perkins on a portion of the Rancho Las Posas Mexican land grant. [8] Somis is in the Las Posas Valley [9]: 194 on the south bank of Fox Barranca, [10] just west of Arroyo Las Posas. [11] For statistical purposes, the United States Census Bureau has defined Somis as a census-designated place (CDP).
Santa María de la Purísima Concepción del Agua de Landa mission is located twenty km from Jalpan on Highway 120 towards Xilitla. The mission was built between 1760 and 1768 by Miguel de la Campa is dedicated to Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception , which gives rise to part of the community's name.
Three houses along a six-house section of Garrido Drive in Camarillo burned as firefighters from L.A. and Ventura counties worked to knock the fast-moving blaze that is part of the Mountain Fire ...