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  2. Coastal California - Wikipedia

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    Coastal California is heavily influenced by east–west distances to the dominant cold California Current as well as microclimates.Due to hills and coast ranges having strong meteorological effects, summer and winter temperatures (other than occasional heat waves) are heavily moderated by ocean currents and fog with strong seasonal lags compared to interior valleys as little as 10 mi (16 km) away.

  3. History of the mapping of California - Wikipedia

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    For instance, a Spanish map from 1548 depicts California as a peninsula, [8] while a 1622 Dutch map depicts California as an island. [citation needed] A 1626 Portuguese map depicts the land as a peninsula, [citation needed] while a 1630 British map depicts it as an island. [9] A French map from 1682 only shows the tip of the Baja Peninsula.

  4. Geography of California - Wikipedia

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    The states of Nevada and Utah, also originally part of Alta California, also use that line for their northern boundaries. The southern boundary, between California and Mexico, was established by the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo that ended the Mexican–American War in 1848. The line is about 30 miles (48 km) north of the former Alta California ...

  5. California Coast Ranges - Wikipedia

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    The Northern Coast Ranges are a section of the California Coast Ranges. They run parallel to the Pacific Coast from the North San Francisco Bay Area to coastal Del Norte County. The Klamath Mountains, including the Siskiyou Mountains sub-range, lie to the north and northeast. The Southern Coast Ranges lie to the south.

  6. List of regions of California - Wikipedia

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    South Coast. Ventura County. Oxnard Plain; Conejo Valley. Thousand Oaks; East County- Moorpark, Simi Valley; Channel Islands; Tovaangar; Greater Los Angeles. Malibu

  7. Peninsulas of California - Wikipedia

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    Many coastal peninsulas of California are properly headlands and are often called points, as in Oxford English Dictionary's senses 19b "projecting part of anything of a more or less tapering form...a sharp prominence" and 22 "a promontory or cape; the tip of a piece of land running out to sea...frequently in place names."

  8. Big Sur land use - Wikipedia

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    The policies protecting land used in Big Sur are some of the most restrictive local-use standards in California, [1] and are widely regarded as one of the most restrictive development protections anywhere. [2] The program protects viewsheds from the highway and many vantage points, and severely restricts the density of development. About 60% of ...

  9. Geography of southern California - Wikipedia

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    Essentially, the mountain ranges separate southern California into two distinct climatic regions: The heavy-populated coastal area west of these mountains is the one most associated with the term "southern California" and is characterized by pleasant weather all-year round, without frequent heat spells in the summer and without low temperatures ...