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San Pedro Bay is an inlet on the Pacific Ocean coast of Southern California, United States. It is the site of the Port of Los Angeles and the Port of Long Beach , which together form the fifth-busiest port facility in the world (behind the ports of Shanghai , Singapore , Hong Kong , and Shenzhen ) and the busiest in the Americas.
San Pedro Bay may refer to: San Pedro Bay (Philippines), a small bay on Leyte; San Pedro Bay (California), an inlet on the Pacific coast of the United States; San Pedro Bay (Florida), a swamp and wildlife management area in north central Florida; San Pedro Bay (Chile), an open bay in Los Lagos Region
San Pedro Bay is a bay in the Philippines, at the northwest end of Leyte Gulf. It measures about 15 kilometres (9.3 mi; 8.1 nmi) east to west and 20 kilometres (12 mi; 11 nmi) north to south. [1] The bay is bounded by two islands, by Samar the north and east and by Leyte on the east.
San Pedro was named for St. Peter of Alexandria, as his feast day is November 24 on the ecclesiastical calendar of Spain, the day on which Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo first encountered the San Pedro Bay in 1542. [7] Santa Catalina Island, named after Catherine of Alexandria, was claimed for the Spanish Empire the next day, on her feast day ...
The city of San Pedro was in consideration of being the host of a major port in Southern California. After much deliberation, the federal government selected San Pedro. [2] Construction of the San Pedro Breakwater began in 1899 for the purpose of protecting San Pedro Bay and the new, major port. [2]
San Pedro Bay grew into one of the world's great ports, and Santa Monica was transformed into a glamorous beach resort, with powerful impacts on the region's urban geography. [2] A 16-mile strip of land (26 km), from Downtown Los Angeles to San Pedro and Wilmington, would soon be part of the City of Los Angeles.
San Pedro Bay in a 1900 plan for the Los Angeles Harbor, present cities and districts are named Los Angeles Harbor Light built in 1913, on the 2.11-mile San Pedro breakwater was completed in 1911 The first time the US Navy operated out of the Port of San Pedro was during the Mexican–American War , on 6 August 1846 when Commodore Robert F ...
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