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Redondo Beach (Spanish for ' round ') is a coastal city in Los Angeles County, California, United States, located in the South Bay region of the Greater Los Angeles area. It is one of three adjacent beach cities along the southern portion of Santa Monica Bay.
Navajos were forced to walk from their land in western New Mexico Territory (modern-day Arizona and New Mexico) to Bosque Redondo in eastern New Mexico. Some 53 different forced marches occurred between August 1864 and the end of 1866. In total, 10,000 Navajos and 500 Mescalero Apache were forced to the internment camp in Bosque Redondo. [2]
The highest point in the caldera is Redondo Peak, an 11,254-foot (3,430 m) resurgent lava dome located entirely within the caldera and surrounded by moat-like flows of rhyolitic solidified lavas. [5] Located within the caldera are several grass valleys , or valles , the largest of which is Valle Grande ( locally / ˈ v aɪ . eɪ ˈ ɡ r ɑː n ...
The Diablo Canyon Power Plant in San Luis Obispo County is the largest power station in California with a nameplate capacity of 2,256 MW and an annual generation of 18,214 GWh in 2018. [6] The largest under construction is the Westlands Solar Park in Kings County, which will generate 2,000 MW when completed in 2025. [7] [8]
Redondo Peak is an example of the volcanic feature known as a resurgent dome. It was formed shortly after the caldera-forming eruption of 1.25 million years ago, but it is not itself an eruptive feature. The summit of the mountain is composed of tuff ejected by the caldera-forming eruption, rather than of subsequent volcanic ejecta. [4]
Sierra Canyon 62, Millennium (Arizona) 61. Sierra Vista 46, Ontario 36. Simi Valley 78, Garces Memorial 55. South Pasadena 77, Muir 35. South Torrance 66, Los Altos 59. St. Anthony 71, Santa Monica 48
Various Native American peoples occupied the lands in and around the Southern California Bight for tens of thousands of years before the arrival of Europeans. When Spanish explorers arrived in the 16th century the Chumash people occupied the northern coastal region of the bight, as well as the four Northern Channel Islands, [4] and the Tongva (or Gabrieleño) occupied the Los Angeles Basin and ...
A look at The Times' top 25 boys basketball rankings for the Southland after Week 3. Rk. School (Rec.); Comment; ranking last week. 1. ST. JOHN BOSCO (6-0); 41-point performance from Elzie ...