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San Pedro is located in southern Cameron County at (25.979523, -97.598789), [3] 8 miles (13 km) northwest of the center of Brownsville via U.S. Route 281. The community is less than one mile northeast of the Rio Grande, which forms the Mexico–United States border.
The City of Wilmington is to the north of San Pedro with three docks that were part of Naval Operating Base Terminal Island Los Angeles Harbor Light built in 1913, on the 2.11-mile San Pedro breakwater was completed in 1911, part of Naval Operating Base Terminal Island in World War II. Naval Base San Pedro at Pier No. 1: [16]
State Route 47 (SR 47) is a state highway in the U.S. state of California, connecting Terminal Island to the mainland in the Los Angeles area.From its south end at I-110 in San Pedro, it heads east across the Vincent Thomas Bridge to the island and the end of state maintenance.
An employee was badly mauled by a dog at the L.A. Harbor Animal Shelter in San Pedro on Friday. (Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times)
Harbor Beacon Park & Ride is a park and ride lot located in San Pedro, California, served by the Metro J Line, a bus rapid transit route. The parking lot has 180 spaces [2] and is located at the end of Interstate 110 (Harbor Freeway). The lot was built as part of the project to widen the Harbor Freeway and build the Harbor Transitway.
The Facebook page has photos, information, maps, and videos of the beach shared by people enjoyed their experiences at Sunken City. [27] The "sunkencity" hashtag on Instagram has over 19,000 tags. [28] [page needed] Businesses in San Pedro have named their businesses after the beach because it has become a tourist attraction. In other media:
It occupies 7,500 acres (3,000 ha) of land and water with 43 miles (69 km) of waterfront and adjoins the separate Port of Long Beach. Promoted as "America's Port", the port is located in San Pedro Bay in the San Pedro and Wilmington neighborhoods of Los Angeles, approximately 20 miles (32 km) south of downtown.
San Pedro was founded in the 1840s and had a post office from 1848 to 1857 and from 1858 to 1905. A Presbyterian Church was organized in 1889. In the 1930s the community consisted of a church, a cemetery, and several houses. By the 1990s, only the church, cemetery, and scattered houses remained. [2]