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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 that was 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 ma ...

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. Its estimated population was 8,072 at the 2020 census, up from 7,655 in the 2010 census. The Pismo clam was named for the long, wide beach where they were once found in abundance. History The Chumash people are the historic inhabitants of the region, with indigenous peoples having lived along the California coast for at least 11,000 years. The name Pismo comes from the Chumash language word for tar, ''pismuʔ'', which was gathered from tar springs in Price Canyon near Pismo Beach. The tar was a valuable product, which the Chumash used to caulk their seagoing canoes, called '' tomol'', which traveled along the coast and out to the Channel Islands. The first European land exploration of Alta California, the Spanish Portolá expedition, passed through the area, traveling up Price Canyon from Pismo Beach, where they camped ...
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Pismo State Beach
Pismo State Beach is a beach on the Pacific Ocean, 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, California, 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 Pismo clam. It is a popular place to bird watch and is one of the largest over-wintering colony of Monarch butterfly, monarch butterflies in the U.S. The Cal Poly Mustangs (San Luis Obispo), 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, grea ...
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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 Hidal ...
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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 (480 km) 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 Indigenous peoples of California, commonly known as Indigenous Californians or Native Californians, are a diverse group of nations and peoples that are indigenous to the geographic area within the current boundaries of California before and afte ... 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 ...
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