Rio del Mar (From Spanish: Río del Mar, meaning River of the Sea) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Santa Cruz County, California, United States. The name "Rio Del Mar" was chosen as a "catchy" name to promote real estate in the area during the 1920s. There is no body of water by that name in Santa Cruz County. But there is a large creek, Aptos Creek, that goes through Rio del Mar and empties into the Monterey Bay at Rio del Mar. Aptos Creek is the "Rio" in Rio del Mar.
Population: 9,216
Latitude: 36° 58' 5.81" N
Longitude: -121° 54' 0.83" W
Uvas Canyon County Park is part of the Santa Clara County Parks System. This 1,133-acre natural park is located in upper Uvas Canyon on the eastern side of the Santa Cruz Mountains, west of Morgan Hill, California. The park has several small waterfa…
The Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) is a private, non-profit oceanographic research center in Moss Landing, California. MBARI was founded in 1987 by David Packard, and is primarily funded by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation.
Kresge College is one of the residential colleges that make up the University of California, Santa Cruz. Founded in 1971, Kresge is located on the western edge of the UCSC campus. Kresge is the sixth of ten colleges at UCSC, and originally one of th…
The Five Branches University is a private university with two campuses in Santa Cruz and San Jose, California. The school offers accredited Master of Traditional Chinese Medicine (MTCM), Master of Acupuncture(MAc), and Doctor of Acupuncture & Orient…
The first of the ten residential colleges of the University of California, Santa Cruz, established in 1965, Cowell College sits on the edge of a redwood forest with a remarkable view of Monterey Bay.
Steamer Lane is a famous surfing location in Santa Cruz, California. It is just off a point on the side of cliffs in the West Cliff residential area near downtown Santa Cruz, providing easy access and a good vantage point for viewing. The Santa Cruz…
Pajaro is a census-designated place (CDP) in Monterey County, California, United States. Pajaro is located on the south bank of the Pajaro River 5 miles (8 km) northeast of its mouth, at an elevation of 26 feet (8 m). The population was 3,070 at the…
Live Oak is a census-designated place (CDP) in Santa Cruz County, California between the towns of Santa Cruz and Capitola. Live Oak sits at an elevation of 102 feet (31 m).
Corralitos is a census-designated place (CDP) in Santa Cruz County, California, United States.
The Moss Landing Marine Laboratories (MLML) is a multi-campus marine research consortium headquartered at Moss Landing, California.
The Santa Cruz Surfing Museum is a museum which was established in May 1986 to document the history of surfing.
Santa Cruz Metropolitan Transit District (SCMTD), or simply Santa Cruz METRO, provides bus service throughout Santa Cruz County, California.
Redwood Estates is a rural unincorporated community along State Route 17 in the coastal Santa Cruz Mountains of California, USA. The Census Bureau includes it in a census-designated place named Lexington Hills. It lies inside the confines of Santa C…
Merrill College is a residential college at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Crown College is one of the residential colleges that makes up the University of California, Santa Cruz, USA.
Branciforte or as it was named originally, Villa de Branciforte, was the last of only three secular pueblos founded by the Spanish colonial government of Alta California. The pueblo was established in 1797 on the eastern bluff of the San Lorenzo Riv…
Adlai E. Stevenson College is a residential college at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Uvas Reservoir is a reservoir in Santa Clara County, California, U.S.A., created in 1957 by the construction of Uvas Dam across Uvas Creek.