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Cuyamaca Rancho State Park is located in the Peninsular Range, which extends from the San Jacinto Mountains north of the park, southward to the tip of Baja California.At the western edge of the most seismically active area in North America, the range is a great uplifted plateau, cut off from the Colorado Desert to the east by the Elsinore Fault Zone, where vertical movement over the last two ...
Cuyamaca Rancho State Park, with California oak woodlands habitat, is located in the range. The former mining town of Julian is in the northern section, [ 4 ] and the towns of Descanso , Pine Valley and Guatay is in the southern. [ 5 ]
Cuyamaca (Kumeyaay: ‘Ekwiiyemak) [1] is a region of eastern San Diego County, California. It lies east of the Capitan Grande Reservation in the western Laguna Mountains, north of Descanso and south of Julian. Named for the 1845 Rancho Cuyamaca Mexican land grant, the region is now dominated by the 26,000-acre (110 km 2) Cuyamaca Rancho State ...
Rancho Cuyamaca was a 35,501-acre (143.67 km 2) Mexican land grant in the Cuyamaca Mountains and Laguna Mountains, in present-day San Diego County, California, United States. It was given in 1845 by Governor Pío Pico to Agustín Olvera . [ 1 ]
Cuyamaca Rancho State Park: State park San Diego: 24,693 9,993 1933 Preserves an expansive tract of forests and meadows above 5,000 feet (1,500 m) in the Laguna Mountains, on the former Rancho Cuyamaca. [63] D. L. Bliss State Park: State park El Dorado: 2,149 870 1929 Features a balancing rock and the Rubicon Point Light on the shore of Lake ...
Cuyama seen from the east, on SR-166. The valley encompasses an area of approximately 300 square miles (780 km 2).It is bounded on all sides by mountains: the Sierra Madre Mountains along the south and west, La Panza Range on the north, and Caliente Range along the northeast − all of the California Coast Ranges System; and the San Emigdio Mountains on the east − of the Transverse Ranges ...
As the route approaches its north end at State Route 79, Lake Cuyamaca is visible. The north terminus is located just north of Cuyamaca Rancho State Park where it meets SR 79. History CR S1 Near Al Bahr Shrine Camp. The route was established by the county in the year 1959, where the entire route was designated as it is now.
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