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The South Coast is a region of California, making up roughly the southernmost third of the Californian coast.. A Southern California coastal bioregion is defined by California Environmental Resources Evaluation System (CERES) as including parts of six counties: the western section of Ventura, all of Orange, the majority of Los Angeles, the southwestern corner of San Bernardino, the western ...
Southern California (commonly shortened to SoCal) is a geographic and cultural region that generally comprises the southern portion of the U.S. state of California.Its densely populated coastal region includes Greater Los Angeles (the second-most populous urban agglomeration in the United States) [4] [5] and San Diego County (the second-most populous county in California).
This list of California beaches is a list of beaches that are situated along the coastline of the State of California, US. The information in this article draws extensively from the California Coastal Access Guide , a comprehensive resource that provides detailed information on over 1150 public access points along California's extensive 1271 ...
Santa Ana-Anaheim-Irvine, CA. Santa Ana; South Coast Metro; Santa Ana Valley; Saddleback Valley; Santa Ana Mountains; San Diego–Tijuana. San Diego metropolitan area. North County. North County Coastal; North County Inland; Temecula Valley; East County. Mountain Empire; South Bay
California map of Köppen climate classification. California's climate varies widely, from arid to subarctic, depending on latitude, elevation, and proximity to the coast. Coastal and Southern parts of the state have a Subtropical Mediterranean climate, with somewhat rainy winters and dry summers.
Coastal California is heavily influenced by east–west distances to the dominant cold California Current as well as microclimates.Due to hills and coast ranges having strong meteorological effects, summer and winter temperatures (other than occasional heat waves) are heavily moderated by ocean currents and fog with strong seasonal lags compared to interior valleys as little as 10 mi (16 km) away.
The Peninsular Ranges are a group of mountain ranges in the Pacific Coast Ranges, which stretch over 900 miles from southern California in the United States to the southern tip of Mexico's Baja California peninsula. [26] They are part of the North American Coast Ranges that run along the Pacific coast from Alaska to Mexico. [27]
California's major urban areas normally are thought of as two large megalopolises: one in Northern California (with 12.6 million inhabitants) and one in Southern California (with 23.8 million inhabitants), separated from each other by approximately 382 miles or 615 km [1] (the distance from Los Angeles to San Francisco), with sparsely inhabited (relatively) Central Coast, Central Valley, and ...