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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
Promoted as "America's Port", the port is located in San Pedro Bay in the San Pedro and Wilmington neighborhoods of Los Angeles, approximately 20 miles (32 km) south of downtown. The port has 25 cargo terminals, 82 container cranes, 8 container terminals, and 113 miles (182 km) of on-dock rail.
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 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.
The South Bay is a region of the Los Angeles metropolitan area, located in the southwest corner of Los Angeles County. The name stems from its geographic location stretching along the southern shore of Santa Monica Bay. The South Bay contains sixteen cities plus portions of the City of Los Angeles and unincorporated portions of the county. The ...
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 ...