Tunitas, California was a small unincorporated community in
San Mateo County
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. It was originally located on
State Route 1 until that state route was moved to the west. It was also renamed
Lobitos
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.
''Arroyo de las Tunitas'' is shown on the ''diseños'', about 1839, of the
San Gregorio and
Canada Verde grants. The name means “A small bush…grows super-abundant at and near its mouth, and its fruit is known to the present generation as sea apples.”
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Former settlements in San Mateo County, California