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Ausaima Language
Over 50 villages and tribes of the Ohlone (also known as Costanoan) Native American people have been identified as existing in Northern California circa 1769 in the regions of the San Francisco Peninsula, Santa Clara Valley, East Bay, Santa Cruz Mountains, Monterey Bay and Salinas Valley. The known tribe names and village locations of people who spoke the Costanoan languagesMilliken, 1995. are listed by regions below. In 1925, Alfred Kroeber, then director of the Hearst Museum of Anthropology, declared the tribe extinct, which directly led to its losing federal recognition and land rights. San Francisco Peninsula ''Languages spoken: Ramaytush,'' '' Tamyen on southern border'' Tribes and villages of the San Francisco Peninsula: # Ahwaste – the San Francisco Peninsula # Chiguan – Pacific Coast of San Francisco Peninsula vicinity of Half Moon Bay # Cotegen – Pacific Coast south of Half Moon Bay # Lamchin – present-day San Mateo County, Bay shore from Belmont south t ...
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Ohlone Villages
The Ohlone ( ), formerly known as Costanoans (from Spanish meaning 'coast dweller'), are a Native Americans in the United States, Native American people of the Northern California coast. When Spanish explorers and missionaries arrived in the late 18th century, the Ohlone inhabited the area along the coast from San Francisco Bay through Monterey Bay to the lower Salinas Valley. At that time they spoke a variety of related languages. The Ohlone languages make up a sub-family of the Utian languages, Utian language family. Older proposals place Utian within the Penutian language phylum, while newer proposals group it as Yok-Utian languages, Yok-Utian. In pre-Colonialism, colonial times, the Ohlone lived in more than 50 List of Ohlone villages, distinct landholding groups, and did not view themselves as a single unified group. They lived by hunting, fishing, and gathering, in the typical ethnographic California pattern. The members of these various bands interacted freely with one a ...
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San Mateo County, California
San Mateo County ( ), officially the County of San Mateo, is a county (United States), county located in the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 United States census, the population was 764,442. Redwood City, California, Redwood City is the county seat, the third-most populated city in the county after Daly City, California, Daly City and San Mateo, California, San Mateo. San Mateo County is included in the San Francisco–Oakland–Berkeley, CA MSA (metropolitan statistical area), Silicon Valley, and is part of the San Francisco Bay Area, the nine counties bordering San Francisco Bay. As of 2020, it has a median household income of $128,091, the List of highest-income counties in the United States, fourth-highest household income of any county in the nation behind Loudoun County, Virginia, Falls Church, Virginia, and Santa Clara County, California. The county covers most of the San Francisco Peninsula. The county is predominantly suburban and is home to many corporate cam ...
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San Bruno Creek
San Bruno Creek (Spanish for: "St. Brun") is an intermittent stream that rises on the eastern slopes of the Northern Santa Cruz Mountains in San Mateo County, California, US. The headwaters descend a relatively steep canyon east of Skyline Boulevard in a tortuous course. Comparison of topographic maps from 1896 and 1939 illustrates the extreme modification in the lower reaches due to urban development from the rapidly expanding population. The San Bruno Creek watershed was originally settled by a tribe of the Ohlone, and later this locale was part of the Spanish missions' landholdings. A hiking trail winds along San Bruno Creek representing an important link in the San Francisco Bay Trail; in fact, this link is needed to make up for lack of access along a large bay front area occupied exclusively by San Francisco International Airport; thus, the Bay Trail must detour a full inland from the bay to meet the San Bruno Creek Trail. History Prehistorically the banks of San Bruno ...
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Calera Creek
Calera Creek (Pacifica, California) is a stream in the Rockaway Beach and Vallemar neighborhoods of Pacifica, California. The creek is named for the limestone deposits and historical Rockaway Quarry located nearby. With headwaters in the Sweeney Ridge national park, this creek presently enjoys wetlands restoration from the Calera Creek Water Recycling Plant, and contains habitat for the California red-legged frog and San Francisco garter snake.''Oakland Tribune The ''Oakland Tribune'' was a daily newspaper published in Oakland, California, and a predecessor of the '' East Bay Times''. It was published by the Bay Area News Group (BANG), a subsidiary of MediaNews Group. Founded in 1874, the ''Tribune'' ...'', July 11, 200/ref> File:Log, Calera Creek Wetlands, Pacifica (15968459896).jpg, Log, Calera Creek Wetlands, Pacifica File:Pacifica Coastline 01.jpg, Coastline near Calera Creek References See also * List of watercourses in the San Francisco Bay Area Pacifi ...
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Pacifica, California
Pacifica (, meaning "Peaceful") is a city in San Mateo County, California, on the coast of the Pacific Ocean between San Francisco and Half Moon Bay, California, Half Moon Bay. Overview The City of Pacifica is spread along a stretch of sandy coastal beaches and hills in north central California. The city comprises several small valleys spread between Sweeney Ridge in the east, Montara Mountain to the south, and the Pacific Ocean's rocky bluffs to the west. Pacifica is well known regionally as a popular surfing destination. Surfers and families often visit Pacifica State Beach, also known as Linda Mar Beach. It is also the site of the World Dog Surfing Championships. Rockaway Beach, California, Rockaway Beach is a scenic location and offers recreation, shopping and dining. Pacifica is also a popular place to hike, with many trails that wind along the beaches and bluffs, including Mori Point, San Pedro Valley County Park, Frontierland Park, the Sanchez Adobe, Milagra Ridge, and ...
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San Pedro Creek
San Pedro Creek (Spanish for ''St. Peter'') is a perennial stream in the City of Pacifica, California, Pacifica, San Mateo County, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area whose tributaries originate on Sweeney Ridge in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area and Montara Mountain in the Santa Cruz Mountains.The creek mainstem flows through the San Pedro Valley to its mouth near Shelter Cove, Pacifica, Shelter Cove of the Pacific Ocean The stream is notable as the 1769 campsite for Gaspar de Portolà before he ascended Sweeney Ridge and discovered San Francisco Bay. The south fork of San Pedro Creek became a trout farm, operated by John Gay, until 1962, when storm rains washed out the entire operation. The south fork is a seasonal water source for the City of Pacifica. San Pedro Creek Watershed The river has eight sources and three major tributaries, the Mid Fork, San Pedro Creek, Mid Fork, North Fork, San Pedro Creek, North Fork and South Fork, San Pedro Creek, South Fork. Dra ...
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San Pedro Y San Pablo Asistencia
The San Pedro y San Pablo Asistencia is an asistencia or "sub-mission" to Mission San Francisco de Asís in the San Pedro Valley in Pacifica, California. Established in 1786 at the Ohlone village of ''Pruristac'', the site is located within the bounds of the Rancho San Pedro (home to the Sánchez Adobe). History Within the first year a chapel, granary, tack room, and three other rooms had been constructed, using native labor. In 1788 two more rooms were added. In 1789 a second granary was built, quarters for the '' mayordomo'', and quarters for the missionaries were built. Also, a covered passageway which temporarily served as a kitchen. Crops of wheat and beans were planted and limestone was mined at nearby Mori Point in quantities to provide for the food and construction needs of the parent mission. At its peak the ''asistencia'' consisted of a three-wing main structure surrounding a central plaza. Corn, peas, barley, asparagus, and rosemary would, in time also be cultiv ...
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San Mateo Creek (San Francisco Bay Area)
San Mateo Creek (''Spanish for'': St. Matthew Creek) is a perennial stream whose watershed includes Crystal Springs Reservoir, for which it is the only natural outlet after passing Crystal Springs Dam. History After discovering San Francisco Bay from Sweeney Ridge on November 4, 1769, the Portolà expedition descended what Gaspar de Portolà, Portolà called the ''Cañada de San Francisco'', now San Andreas Creek (or possibly San Mateo Creek). "Laguna Grande" is where the party camped (now covered by the Upper Crystal Springs Reservoir). The Laguna Grande place name is also shown on the 1840s diseño del Rancho Cañada de Raymundo and an 1856 plat. The campsite is marked by California Historical Marker No. 94 "Portola Expedition Camp". They camped here a second time on November 12, on their return trip. Francisco Palóu, Padre Palóu, on an expedition from Mission San Carlos Borromeo (Carmel) to explore the western side of San Francisco Bay led by Captain Fernando Rivera y Monc ...
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Tunitas Creek
Tunitas Creek is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map. stream in San Mateo County, California. ''Tunitas'' is Spanish for "little prickly pears". Course The creek rises at an altitude of on Kings Mountain in the Santa Cruz Mountains and flows to the Pacific Ocean at Tunitas Creek Beach. An all-weather paved county road, Tunitas Creek Road, follows its course. Steelhead trout have been found in the creek. Tunitas Creek Open Space Preserve, owned by Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District, encompasses approximately along the creek. History The first European land exploration of Alta California, the Spanish Portolà expedition, traveled along the coast on its way north, camping near today's San Gregorio, from October 24 to 26, 1769. On the return journey to San Diego, the party camped near Half Moon Bay on November 16, and at Tunitas Creek on November 17. Franciscan missionary Juan Crespi noted in his dia ...
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Año Nuevo State Park
Año Nuevo State Park is a state park of California, United States, encompassing Año Nuevo Island and Año Nuevo Point, which are known for their pinniped rookeries. Located in San Mateo County, the low, rocky, windswept point juts out into the Pacific Ocean about south of San Francisco and the Golden Gate. Año Nuevo State Natural Reserve, formerly a separate unit of the California state park system, was merged into Año Nuevo State Park in October 2008. The coastal geographic center, or coastal-midpoint of California is located at the northern end of this park at , as the absolute geographic center of California falls at . The reserve contains a diversity of plant communities, including old growth forest, freshwater marsh, red alder riparian forest and knobcone pine forest. Its four perennial streams support steelhead and coho salmon, and its wetlands are habitat to the rare San Francisco garter snake and California red-legged frog. Cultural resources include t ...
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Bean Hollow State Beach
Bean Hollow State Beach is a beach in the state park system of California, United States. It is located in San Mateo County near Pescadero. The beach offers fishing, picnicking and beachcombing. Visitors can explore tide pools with anemones, crab, sea urchins and other marine inhabitants. The beach also has a self-guided nature trail. Swimming is dangerous because of cold water, rip currents, heavy surf and sharks. Bean Hollow is south of Half Moon Bay and south of Pescadero on State Route 1. The property was acquired by the state in 1958. Bean Hollow has become one of the premier locations in California for 1/10 scale radio control 4 wheel drive trucks. Name Named after Cañada del Frijol which was applied in the 1840s. The English term was in use by 1861. History The earliest recording of the area was from the Portolá Expedition of 1769 who were retreating back to San Diego along an Ohlone road. "...we made camp close to one of two large streams in the San Pedro ...
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Pescadero Creek
Pescadero Creek is a major stream in Santa Cruz County, California, Santa Cruz and San Mateo County, California, San Mateo counties in California, United States. At ,U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map accessed March 15, 2011 it is the longest stream in San Mateo County and flows all year from springs in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Its source is at above sea level on the western edge of Castle Rock State Park (California), Castle Rock State Park, with additional headwaters in Portola Redwoods State Park, and its course traverses Pescadero Creek County Park and San Mateo County Memorial Park before entering Pescadero Marsh Natural Preserve at Pescadero State Beach and thence to the Pacific Ocean south of Half Moon Bay. History ''Pescadero'' is Spanish for "fishing place". In early Mexican land grants or disueños, John Gilroy stated "The Castros, I and an Indian gave it that name in 1814, being a place where we used t ...
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