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Cabrillo National Monument (Spanish: Monumento nacional Cabrillo) is a U.S. national monument at the southern tip of the Point Loma peninsula in San Diego, California.It commemorates the landing of Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo at San Diego Bay on September 28, 1542.
The original Point Loma Lighthouse is a historic lighthouse located on the Point Loma peninsula at the mouth of San Diego Bay in San Diego, California. It is situated within Cabrillo National Monument. It is no longer in operation as a lighthouse but is open to the public as a museum.
Overlying the Point Loma Formation is another Late Cretaceous deposit called the Cabrillo Formation, which crops out in various areas of Point Loma. [ 27 ] [ 28 ] The top of the peninsula is fairly flat, reaches an elevation of 422 ft (129 m), [ 29 ] and is capped by much younger sandstone and conglomerate deposits from the Pleistocene era, 1 ...
The formation is found on the eastern and southwestern sides of the Point Loma peninsula including in Cabrillo National Monument, and on Mount Soledad, both within the city of San Diego. [2] [3] The Cabrillo Formation overlies the Point Loma Formation.
A museum in the park focuses on Cabrillo and his voyages of discovery. Every September Cabrillo Festival Inc. hosts the Cabrillo Festival, an annual three-day celebration of his discovery of San Diego Bay, including a re-enactment of his landing at Ballast Point. [46] [47] Another Cabrillo Monument is located on San Miguel Island. [48]
Ballast Point Peninsula 11/6/1970 Shore station where whale blubber was boiled down for the oil in the 1850s and 1860s, halfway out on the inner beach of Ballast Point 17: Lighthouse of 1854: Cabrillo National Monument: 11/6/1970
Cabrillo State Marine Reserve (SMR) is a marine protected area (MPA). It extends off Cabrillo National Monument in Point Loma, San Diego, on California's south coast. The SMR covers 0.38 square miles (0.98 km 2). Marine animal removal from the SMR's boundaries is restricted, safeguarding marine life.
It is part of the California state park system as Point Cabrillo Light Station State Historic Park. [6] It should not be confused with the inactive Old Point Loma Lighthouse or the active New Point Loma Lighthouse in San Diego, both of which lie within the grounds of Cabrillo National Monument and are sometimes referred to as the Cabrillo ...