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English: A locator map showing Monterey County in California. David Benbennick made this map. For more information, see Commons:United States county locator maps .
English: A simple map of the Monterey Bay Area, a.k.a. the Santa-Cruz-Monterey area, including the cities of Santa Cruz in the north, and Monterey in the south, along with notable cities Salinas, Hollister, and Carmel.
The coastline of Monterey County includes Big Sur, Highway 1, and the scenic 17 Mile Drive in Pacific Grove and Carmel that traces the perimeter of the Monterey Peninsula. Tourism is an important part of the economy in the coastal regions of Monterey county, although agriculture is more dominant in the inland Salinas Valley. The first people to ...
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Monterey County (/ ˌ m ɒ n t ə ˈ r eɪ / ⓘ MON-tə-RAY), officially the County of Monterey, is a county located on the Pacific coast in the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 United States census, its population was 439,035. [5] The county's largest city and county seat is Salinas. [6]
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Prunedale is located in northern Monterey County at It is bordered to the northeast by San Benito County , to the north by the community of Aromas , and to the west by the community of Elkhorn . Via U.S. Route 101, Salinas , the county seat , is 7 miles (11 km) to the south, while Gilroy is 20 miles (32 km) to the north.
According to the maps of the United States Geological Survey, the highest elevation of the peninsula, 250 meters (825 feet) above sea level, is on the north-south ridge that runs the length of the peninsula. The climate is a cool Mediterranean type, strongly influenced by the prevailing winds from the west, which blow over the Pacific Coast's ...