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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 55 miles (89 km) south of San Francisco and the Golden Gate.
Año Nuevo State Marine Conservation Area, a marine protected area off California's central coast Año Nuevo State Park , a California wildlife reserve located in San Mateo County Rancho Punta del Año Nuevo , a Mexican land grant in present-day San Mateo County, California
Rancho Punta del Año Nuevo was a 17,753-acre (71.84 km 2) Mexican land grant in present day San Mateo County, California given in 1842 by Governor Juan B. Alvarado to Simeon Castro. [1] Following statehood, the land grant was within Santa Cruz County ; however, an 1868 boundary adjustment gave the land to San Mateo County.
As recently as the 18th century, what is today Año Nuevo Island was a peninsula.It became separated from the mainland by a channel that continues to widen. The island is mainly made up of Miocene shale and deposits from ancient dunes, along with a broad intertidal shelf and low, rocky islets, all of which are frequently altered by the erosive pounding of waves, particularly during winter storms.
Elephant seals at Año Nuevo during the mating season in early February. Año Nuevo State Marine Conservation Area (SMCA) is one of two adjoining marine protected areas off the coast of San Mateo and Santa Cruz Counties, on California’s central coast. The area is approximately 55 miles (89 km) south of San Francisco.
The Mexica New Year (Spanish: Año Nuevo Mexicano or Año Nuevo Azteca; Nahuatl languages: Yancuic Xīhuitl, pronounced [ˈjaŋkʷik ˈʃiːwit͡ɬ]) is the celebration of the new year according to the Aztec calendar.
This is a list of landmark coastal peninsulas of the U.S. state of California, ordered north to south.Unless otherwise noted, source is plate 144 from the Atlas of the War of the Rebellion, drawn 1867, and published 1895.
List table of the properties and districts — listed on the California Historical Landmarks — within San Mateo County, California.. Note: Click the "Map of all coordinates" link to the right to view a Google map of all properties and districts with latitude and longitude coordinates in the table below.