Pismo Heights, California

	Pismo Heights, California Pismo may refer to: * The town of Pismo Beach, California The Pismo State Beach near Pismo Beach Rancho Pismo * The Pismo clam * A code name for the fourth version of the PowerBook G3 The PowerBook G3 is a series of laptop Macintosh personal computers designed, manufactured, and sold by Apple Computer from 1997 to 2001. It was the first laptop to use the PowerPC G3 (PPC740/750) series of microprocessors, and was marketed as t ... {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Pismo Beach, California Pismo Beach (Chumash: ''Pismuʔ'') is a city in the southern portion of San Luis Obispo County, in the Central Coast area of California, United States. The estimated population was 8,072 at the 2020 census, up from 7,655 in the 2010 census. It is part of the Five Cities Area, a cluster of cities in that area of San Luis Obispo County. The "Five Cities" area historically is made up of Arroyo Grande, Grover City (now Grover Beach), Halcyon, Fair Oaks and Nipomo. Now most people refer to the Five Cities as Grover Beach, Pismo Beach, Shell Beach (which is actually a part of Pismo Beach), Arroyo Grande and Oceano Oceano (Spanish: ''Océano'', meaning "Ocean") is a census-designated place (CDP) in San Luis Obispo County, California, United States. The population was 7,286 at the 2010 census, up from 7,260 at the 2000 census. Geography Oceano is located a ... (which is unincorporated county land serviced by the Oceano Community Services District). History The Chumash people ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Pismo State Beach Pismo State Beach is a beach on the Pacific coast in the U.S. state of California. It is approximately 17 miles long and fronts the towns of Pismo Beach, Grover Beach, and Oceano in San Luis Obispo County. It is managed by the California Department of Parks and Recreation. The area includes a beach and dunes. Recreational uses The beach offers many attractions such as camping, hiking, swimming, surfing, and fishing, and is home to the famous Pismo clam. It is a popular place to bird watch and is the largest over-wintering colony of monarch butterflies in the U.S. The Cal Poly Mustangs women's beach volleyball team has used the beach for home beach volleyball matches. Animal and plant life The beach is home to many forms of marine life, such as abalone, anemones, crabs, kelp, and sea urchins. Several types of birds also live at the beach, such as the brown pelican, great blue heron. A large monarch butterfly population winters over at the Pismo Beach Monarch Butterfl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Rancho Pismo Rancho Pismo was a Mexican land grant in present day San Luis Obispo County, California, given in 1840 by acting governor Manuel Jimeno Casarin to José Ortega (probably a descendant or other relative of José Francisco Ortega). The grant extended along the Pacific coast and encompassed present day Pismo Beach, Grover Beach, Shell Beach and parts of Arroyo Grande. History José Ortega was granted the two square league rancho in 1840. José Ortega sold Rancho Pismo to Isaac Sparks in 1846. Isaac Sparks (1804–1867) was born in Maine. He arrived in Los Angeles in 1832, and by 1848, had established a large otter trapping and merchant business in Santa Barbara. In 1836, he married Maria De Los Remedios Josefa Eayrs (1813-1893), daughter of a sea captain George Washington Eayrs (1775–1855). In 1843, Sparks was the grantee of Rancho Huasna. With the cession of California to the United States following the Mexican-American War, the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Pismo Clam ''Tivela stultorum'', also known as the Pismo clam, is a species of large, edible, saltwater clam, a marine bivalve mollusk in the family Veneridae, the Venus clams. This species is native to the eastern Pacific Ocean. As the name implies, the Pismo clam lives in Pismo Beach, California. It has been found at least as far south as 300 miles south of the US–Mexico border in Baja California on the Pacific Ocean side, where strong surf sometimes washes ashore live clams. The indigenous peoples of California The indigenous peoples of California (known as Native Californians) are the indigenous inhabitants who have lived or currently live in the geographic area within the current boundaries of California before and after the arrival of Europeans. ... used this species for food. References External links Info page on Sealifebase.org Clams Seafood in Native American cuisine Veneridae Bivalves described in 1823 {{Veneridae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]