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Tunitas Creek is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data
The National Map
, accessed March 15, 2011 stream in
/ref> Eyebolts for the chute can still be found in the cliff-face.
Access to Tunitas Beach
Rivers of San Mateo County, California Rivers of Northern California {{California-river-stub
Tunitas Creek is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map
, accessed March 15, 2011 stream in
San Mateo County, California
San Mateo County ( ), officially the County of San Mateo, is a county located in the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 census, the population was 764,442. Redwood City is the county seat, and the third most populated city following Dal ...
. ''Tunitas'' is Spanish for "little prickly pears".
An all-weather paved county road, Tunitas Creek Road, follows the creek from its source at on Kings Mountain in the Santa Cruz Mountains to 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 contin ...
at Tunitas Beach.
History
The first European land exploration of Alta California, the Spanish Portolà expedition, traveled along the coast on its way north, camping for three days near today's San Gregorio, October 24–26, 1769. On the return journey toSan Diego
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, the party camped near Half Moon Bay
Half Moon Bay is a coastal city in San Mateo County, California, United States, approximately south of San Francisco. Its population was 11,795 as of the 2020 census. Immediately at the north of Half Moon Bay is Pillar Point Harbor and the un ...
on November 16, and at Tunitas Creek on November 17. Franciscan
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missionary Juan Crespi
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noted in his diary, "This morning broke very cloudy, and as soon as we started on our way it began to rain, and in the whole three leagues (about ) that we traveled it was falling on us. We halted on the banks of a deep arroyo."
The name "Arroyo de Las Tunitas" appears on the ''diseños'' (claim maps) of both Rancho San Gregorio (1839) and Rancho Cañada Verde (1838) because it was part of the boundary between them.
The cliffs just north of the Tunitas Creek outflow were the site of "Gordon's Chute", a ramp for sliding farm goods from the top of the cliffs to ships anchored in the rolling surf below. Gordon's Chute, named for its builder, local resident Alexander Gordon, was constructed in 1872 and lasted until 1885, when a storm blew it away.Gordon's Chute/ref> Eyebolts for the chute can still be found in the cliff-face.
Tributaries
* Dry Creek * Rings Gulch * East Fork Tunitas Creek * Mitchell CreekSee also
*List of watercourses in the San Francisco Bay Area
These watercourses (rivers, creeks, sloughs, etc.) in the San Francisco Bay Area are grouped according to the bodies of water they flow into. Tributaries are listed under the watercourses they feed, sorted by the elevation of the confluence so tha ...
References
External links
Access to Tunitas Beach
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