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The Portuguese Bend region is the largest area of natural vegetation remaining on the Palos Verdes Peninsula, in Los Angeles County, California. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Though once slated for development including the projected route of Crenshaw Boulevard , the area is geologically unstable and is unsuitable for building.
The Portuguese Bend landslide was activated in 1956, before Rancho Palos Verdes was incorporated as a city. [21] Beginning in September 1956 and continuing until early 1957, [ 22 ] the area experienced a landslide concurrent with the construction of a road (the Crenshaw Boulevard extension, south of Crest Road) along the top of an ancient ...
A decades-long landslide has reshaped a 240-acre part of Palos Verdes Peninsula known as Portuguese Bend. Rancho Palos Verdes is mounting a plan to slow it.
Abalone Cove, Portuguese Bend, Rancho Palos Verdes, California. Abalone Cove State Marine Conservation Area (SMCA) and Point Vicente State Marine Reserve (SMR) are two adjoining marine protected areas that extend offshore in Los Angeles County on California's south coast. The two marine protected areas cover 19.87 sq mi (51.5 km 2). The marine ...
Rancho Palos Verdes has been under a local state of emergency since October 2023, and natural gas service was shut off in Portuguese Bend on July 29.
Jan Seal, who lives in a Rancho Palos Verdes neighborhood above the Portuguese Bend Reserve, said she and her husband have been closely following the landslide developments and are glad they don't ...
Jaconi, 45, is a lifelong resident of the Portuguese Bend Beach Club, a small gated community just off Palos Verdes Drive South that has the most direct access to the evolving beach.
English: A photo of the Portuguese Bend Reserve on March 12, 2016. In the foreground is the Portuguese Bend landslide area. In the background are Inspiration Point, Portuguese Point, Long Point, and the Terranea Resort.