Back الساحل الأوسط في كاليفورنيا Arabic ساحل مرکزی (کالیفرنیا) Persian Côte centrale (Californie) French רצועת החוף המרכזית של קליפורניה HE セントラルコースト (カリフォルニア州) Japanese Central Coast (Californië) Dutch Центральное побережье (Калифорния) Russian Central Coast (California) SIMPLE 中央海岸 Chinese
Central Coast | |
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&sq=Facebook&lang=en&file=File:SBSouthCoast.jpg) South Coast of Santa Barbara County | |
&sq=Facebook&lang=en&file=File:Map_of_the_Central_Coast_region_of_California.png) Location of the Central Coast in California (The lighter shaded area includes South Coast counties that are included in some definitions) | |
| Country | United States |
| State | California |
| Population | 2,249,558 (All 6 counties combined) |
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The Central Coast is an area of California, roughly spanning the coastal region between Point Mugu and Monterey Bay. It lies northwest of Los Angeles and south of the San Francisco Bay Area, and includes the rugged, rural, and sparsely populated stretch of coastline known as Big Sur.[1]
From south to north, there are six counties that make up the Central Coast: Ventura, Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, Monterey, San Benito, and Santa Cruz.[2][3]
The Central Coast is the location of the Central Coast American Viticultural Area.
Geographically, the actual midpoint of the California coast lies north of Santa Cruz, near Año Nuevo State Park in San Mateo County.[4] Neither the popular use of the term Central Coast nor that of the California North Coast include the San Francisco Peninsula counties of San Mateo and San Francisco.
- ^ California Central Coast Tourism. Centralcoast-tourism.com. Retrieved on 2013-10-01.
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on October 24, 2014. Retrieved October 18, 2014.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ Brent, Jon (May 13, 2014). "Covered California enrollment beats projections by wide margin on Central Coast". Kionrightnow.com. Retrieved November 7, 2017.
- ^ "Coastal Geographic Center of California".