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Ballona Wetlands Ecological Reserve (pronunciation: "Bah-yo-nuh" [1] or "Buy-yo-nah" [2]) is a protected area that once served as the natural estuary for neighboring Ballona Creek. The 577-acre (2.34 km 2 ) [ 3 ] site is located in Los Angeles County , California , just south of Marina del Rey .
"Ballona Watershed Map". The Ballona Creek watershed totals about 130 square miles (340 square kilometers). According to a 1948 report in the Venice Evening Vanguard, "The total area drained by Ballona Creek consists of 86 square miles (220 km 2) square miles of coastal plain and 74 square miles (190 km 2) of foothills and plain range from sea level to 250 feet (76 m) and in the mountains from ...
The Friends' activities include providing input at government hearings, [4] [5] commenting on a wetlands restoration project, [6] [7] participating in science and research symposium, [8] supporting the former Native American Indigenous cemetery at Ballona Discovery Park in the Playa Vista mixed-used development below the bluff of LMU, [9] [10] taking legal action protecting the wetlands, [11 ...
The Ballona Lagoon is a soft-bottomed channel and 16-acre (65,000 m 2) [1] tidal marsh in the Marina Peninsula neighborhood of Los Angeles that feeds the Venice Canals with water from the Pacific Ocean via a tide gate.
Port Ballona is an archaic place name for an area near the center of Santa Monica Bay in coastal Los Angeles County, where Playa Del Rey and Del Rey Lagoon are located today. Port Ballona was a planned harbor and town site from circa 1859 to 1903.
Street and other boundaries are: Ballona Creek or the Marina Freeway on the northwest and north, the Culver City boundary on the northeast, Bluff Creek Drive or the boundary between Rancho Ballona and Rancho Sausal Redondo on the southeast, followed by Teale Street and Cabora Drive, westerly and unmarked, to include the Ballona Wetlands on the ...
Del Rey Lagoon Park is a 14-acre (57,000 m 2) municipal park in the Playa Del Rey neighborhood of Los Angeles, United States, with a lagoon that is part of the greater Ballona Creek watershed. [ 1 ] The park features lighted baseball fields, lighted basketball courts and a children’s playground. [ 2 ]
Ballona estuary, 1923. Ballona is a geographic place name in the Westside region of Los Angeles County, California. Geographic place names: Ballona Creek. Ballona Creek Bike Path; Ballona Wetlands; Ballona Lagoon; Historic places: Rancho La Ballona; Ballona Road (now Washington Blvd.) La Ballona Township; La Ballona station (1870s to 1890s ...