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Mendocino is home to a large number of hotels and bed and breakfasts. It has a downtown commercial district facing the ocean, with a number of art galleries, retail shops, lodging and restaurants. Mendocino is one of the many small California towns facing severe water scarcity. Many of the region's wells, the town's primary water source, have ...
Mendocino is the adjectival form of the family name of Mendoza. [11] Neither Spanish nor Mexican influence extended into Mendocino County beyond the establishment of two Mexican land grants in southern Mendocino County: Rancho Sanel in Hopland, in 1844 and Rancho Yokaya that forms the majority of the Ukiah Valley, in 1845. [11] [13]
Mendocino Brewing Company, located in Ukiah, Mendocino County, California Mendocino Unified School District , serving Mendocino County, California Mendocino (microprocessor) , a code name for the second generation Intel Celeron processor
This is confirmed by ethnographic sources of both the Northern and Central Pomo peoples. The current usage of the term squaw equates with widely derogatory meanings, and therefore is offensive to modern Native Americans. In addition, the term squaw is an eastern Algonquian word, unknown to the local Pomo speakers of the Hokan language stock.
Opercularia ampluscolonia, a protist that inhabits ponds in Mendocino County; Plebejus idas lotis (Lotis blue butterfly), a possibly extinct gossamer-winged butterfly last recorded near Mendocino town in 1983 [1] Speyeria zerene behrensii (Behrens' silverspot butterfly), found only near Point Arena
The Mendocino and Headlands Historic District is a nationally recognized and locally protected historic district in Mendocino, California.It is bounded roughly by the Pacific Ocean on the west and south, Little Lake Street on the north and California State Route 1 on the east.
The Mendocino National Forest is located in the Coastal Mountain Range in northwestern California and comprises 913,306 acres (3,696.02 km 2). It is the only national forest in the state of California without a major paved road entering it.
It is named after the Noyo River, on which it lies; the Noyo River in turn was misnamed by white settlers to the Mendocino area after a village of the Pomo people named Noyo several miles north, on Pudding Creek. The Pomo named the creek after their village, and the settlers transferred the name to the larger river to the south.