Pecho Creek, originally known as Arroyo Del Pecho or Cañada del Pecho, is a
stream
A stream is a continuous body of water, body of surface water Current (stream), flowing within the stream bed, bed and bank (geography), banks of a channel (geography), channel. Depending on its location or certain characteristics, a stream ...
in
San Luis Obispo County, California
San Luis Obispo County (), officially the County of San Luis Obispo, is a County (United States), county on the Central Coast (California), Central Coast of California. As of the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census, the population was 282, ...
.
Pecho Creek has its source is in the
Irish Hills
Irish Hills is an area of land located roughly in southeastern Jackson County and northwest Lenawee County in Southeast Michigan. It was named after the numerous Irish immigrants who settled there from 1830 until 1850.
Today it is known thro ...
, at , east-southeast of
Saddle Peak, at an elevation of . The stream flows south-southwest to its mouth at the
Pacific Ocean
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, west-northwest of San Luis Hill. Its mouth is at sea level in the
Pacific Ocean
The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean (or, depending on definition, to Antarctica) in the south, and is bounded by the continen ...
.
History
Pecho Creek was part of the eastern boundary of the
Rancho Pecho y Islay, and of subsequent
Rancho Cañada de los Osos y Pecho y Islay
Rancho Cañada de los Osos y Pecho y Islay was a Mexican land grant in Los Osos Valley and the southern Estero Bay headlands, in present-day San Luis Obispo County, California.
The grant consists of Rancho Cañada de Los Osos (''Valley of th ...
when it was consolidated with the
Rancho Cañada de los Osos in 1845. It was part of the western border of the
Rancho San Miguelito Rancho San Miguelito was a Mexican land grant in present-day San Luis Obispo County, California given in 1842 by Governor Juan Alvarado to Miguel Ávila, and an addition granted in 1846 by Governor Pio Pico. The grant extended along the Pacific ...
.
References
Rivers of San Luis Obispo County, California
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