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Mission San Diego itself was in the San Diego River valley, but its port was a bayside beach in Point Loma called La Playa (Spanish for beach). The historic La Playa Trail , the oldest European trail on the West Coast , [ 9 ] led from the Mission and Presidio to La Playa, where ships anchored and unloaded their cargoes via small boats.
El Centro is also the most populous U.S. city to lie entirely below sea level (−42 feet or −13 meters). [citation needed] The city, located in southeastern California, is 113 miles (182 km) from San Diego and less than 20 miles (32 km) from the Mexican city of Mexicali.
The La Jolla Group is a group of geologic formations in coastal southwestern San Diego County, California. The group preserves fossils dating back to the Cretaceous period. [1] Most of the La Jolla Group stratigraphy was deposited during the Eocene when sea level was higher than its present-day
The San Diego-La Jolla Underwater Park was founded in 1970, followed by the San Diego-Scripps Coastal Marine Conservation Area and the Matlahuayl State Marine Reserve in 1999. The environmental impact of population growth and tourism on Scripps Memorial Park and adjacent coastal areas led to the 2001 establishment of the Scripps Park Project ...
Farther west lies the San Diego and Imperial County border. To the north is the Coachella Valley region of Riverside County , which together with Imperial Valley form the Salton Trough , or the Cahuilla Basin, also the county line of Imperial and Riverside counties, and to the south the international boundary with Mexico .
The water temperature is often a little colder than the average San Diego beach. While the beach has only a small dry sand area at high tide, during very low tides, tide pools are revealed at the cove. California sea lions can be found in the waters of the cove and hauling out, temporarily leaving the water to rest on its beaches, cliffs, and ...
Rincon is an unincorporated community in San Diego County, California, United States. [2] Its elevation is 1030 feet above sea level. Its coordinates are 33 degrees north, 117 degrees west. Its ZIP Code is 92061. [3] The community is located near the Rincon Indian Reservation, from which the name is derived.
The main trail to the summit is a popular hiking destination taking hundreds of people per day to a 360-degree panorama of San Diego County. The hike to the top is 1.5 miles (2.4 km) long and an elevation change of about 950 feet (290 m). This trail is on the corner of Golfcrest Drive and Navajo Road.