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Cabrillo Beach is a historic beach situated within the small coastal community of San Pedro. Cabrillo Beach is named after Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo, who was the first European to sail along the coast of California. [2] The city of San Pedro was in consideration of being the host of a major port in Southern California.
The annual Cabrillo Festival Open House commemorates Cabrillo with a reenactment of his landing at Ballast Point in San Diego Bay. Other events are held above at the National Monument and include Kumeyaay , Portuguese, and Mexican singing and dancing, booths with period and regional food, a historical reenactment of a 16th-century encampment ...
The Frank Gehry–designed Cabrillo Marine Aquarium had its origins in the old Cabrillo Beach Marine Museum which was located in the historic Bath House at Cabrillo Beach. The Point Fermin Light, a Victorian-era structure built in the late 19th century, is a museum and park on a bluff overlooking the ocean.
Point Cabrillo Light is a lighthouse in northern California, United States, between Point Arena and Cape Mendocino, just south of the community of Caspar. It has been a federal aid to navigation since 1909.
Between US 101 at the Las Cruces junction (8 miles [13 km] south of Buellton) and US 101 in Pismo Beach, and between US 101 in San Luis Obispo and Interstate 280 in San Francisco, the legislature also designated SR 1 as the Cabrillo Highway in 1959, after the explorer Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo who sailed along the coast line.
Cabrillo Marine Aquarium is a public aquarium in the San Pedro neighborhood of Los Angeles, California.The aquarium interprets both the physical processes of oceanography and marine biology of Southern California by use of displays and educational programs for the public.
Cabrillo Beach, a section of San Pedro, California near Point Fermin; Cabrillo Bridge, San Diego, California; Cabrillo Freeway, the official name of California State Route 163; Cabrillo Highway, various segments of California State Route 1; Cabrillo Marine Museum, San Pedro, California; Cabrillo National Monument, San Diego, California
A beach on Point Cabrillo. Point Cabrillo is a sandstone headland on the Pacific Ocean coast of Mendocino County, California, [1] between the towns of Mendocino, California and Fort Bragg, California. It is the location of the Point Cabrillo Light.