El Porto Beach is a
California
California is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States, located along the West Coast of the United States, Pacific Coast. With nearly 39.2million residents across a total area of approximately , it is the List of states and territori ...
public
beach
A beach is a landform alongside a body of water which consists of loose particles. The particles composing a beach are typically made from rock, such as sand, gravel, shingle, pebbles, etc., or biological sources, such as mollusc shel ...
managed by the County of Los Angeles, located in
Santa Monica Bay
Santa Monica Bay is a bight (geography), bight of the Pacific Ocean in Southern California, United States. Its boundaries are slightly ambiguous, but it is generally considered to be the part of the Pacific within an imaginary line drawn betwe ...
beside
El Porto, which is now part of the
City of Manhattan Beach, between the beaches of El Segundo Beach and Manhattan Beach, and is protected under the
state park
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system.
The entrance to El Porto's large
parking lot
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, which has
meter
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s, is at the west end of 45th Street from Highland Avenue.
El Porto is one of the most popular beaches in the
South Bay area with surfers from near and far because of an
underwater canyon
A canyon (from ; archaic British English spelling: ''caƱon''), or gorge, is a deep cleft between escarpments or cliffs resulting from weathering and the erosion, erosive activity of a river over geologic time scales. Rivers have a natural tenden ...
that creates
waves
Waves most often refers to:
*Waves, oscillations accompanied by a transfer of energy that travel through space or mass.
* Wind waves, surface waves that occur on the free surface of bodies of water.
Waves may also refer to:
Music
* Waves (ban ...
usually larger than those at neighboring beaches. These
swells have lefts and rights that break over
sandbars
In oceanography, geomorphology, and geoscience, a shoal is a natural submerged ridge, bank, or bar that consists of, or is covered by, sand or other unconsolidated material and rises from the bed of a body of water to near the surface. It o ...
and are consistently big when other beaches are flat. The breaks can hold waves up to double overhead.
El Porto is very close to the
Chevron
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Science and technology
* Chevron (aerospace), sawtooth patterns on some jet engines
* Chevron (anatomy), a bone
* '' Eulithis testata'', a moth
* Chevron (geology), a fold in rock ...
oil refinery and a private corporate Electricity-producing facility for Edison that uses natural gas. Also very close are two city of Los Angeles industrial facilities, namely
Hyperion sewage treatment plant
The Hyperion Water Reclamation Plant is a sewage treatment plant in southwest Los Angeles, California, next to Dockweiler State Beach on Santa Monica Bay. The plant is the largest sewage treatment facility in the Los Angeles Metropolitan Area and ...
and Scattergood Electricity Facility that uses natural gas to produce the electricity.
Volleyball courts are located throughout the El Porto beach area. Roller skates and bicycles are rented out at the
snack bar
A snack bar usually refers to an inexpensive food counter that is part of a permanent structure where snack foods and light meals are sold.
Description
A beach snack bar is often a small building situated high on the sand. Besides soft drink ...
for recreation along the bike trail. There are restrooms with showers located throughout; and
lifeguard
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s are on duty. No fires are permitted on the beach; dogs are not allowed.
See also
*
List of beaches in California
This list of California beaches is a list of beaches that are situated along the coastline of the State of California, USA.
North to South
The beaches are listed in order from north to south, and are grouped by county. The list includes all of ...
*
List of California state parks
This is a list of parks, historic resources, reserves and recreation areas in the California State Parks system.
List of parks
See also
*California State Beaches
*List of California State Historic Parks
* Parks in California
* California Depa ...
References
External links
El Porto Beach
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Beaches of Southern California
Surfing locations in California
Big wave surfing
Parks in Los Angeles County, California
Manhattan Beach, California
Beaches of Los Angeles County, California