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Lobitos (
Lobitos (Spanish
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for "Little wolves") is a populated place in San Mateo County
San Mateo County ( ), officially the County of San Mateo, is a county (United States), county located in the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 United States census, the population was 764,442. Redwood City, California, Redwood City is th ...
, just east of State Route 1 and south of Half Moon Bay
Half Moon Bay is a coastal city in San Mateo County, California, San Mateo County, California, United States, approximately south of San Francisco. Its population was 11,795 2020 United States census, 2020 census. Immediately north of Half Mo ...
and the ghost town
A ghost town, deserted city, extinct town, or abandoned city is an abandoned settlement, usually one that contains substantial visible remaining buildings and infrastructure such as roads. A town often becomes a ghost town because the economi ...
of Purissima
Purissima is a ghost town in southwestern San Mateo County, California, United States, near the junction of California State Route 1, State Route 1 and Verde Road. ''PurÃsima'' means "purest" in Spanish and is most commonly used in Spanish to re ...
. It is above sea level.
Name
Lobitos means 'little wolves', a nickname for 'otters' in Spanish. It was originally named " Tunitas".History
TheOcean Shore Railroad
The Ocean Shore Railroad was a railroad built between San Francisco and Tunitas Beach, Tunitas Glen, and Swanton, California, Swanton and Santa Cruz, California, Santa Cruz that operated along the Pacific coastline from 1905 until 1920. The rou ...
, which operated between San Francisco
San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a commercial, Financial District, San Francisco, financial, and Culture of San Francisco, cultural center of Northern California. With a population of 827,526 residents as of ...
and Tunitas Creek
Tunitas Creek is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map. stream in San Mateo County, California. ''Tunitas'' is Spanish for "little prickly pears".
Course
The creek rises at an a ...
from 1907 to 1920, passed near the village. There was apparently no station in Lobitos. Highway 1 originally passed through Lobitos; it was later rerouted to the west of the village, closely following the old railroad route.
Today, the portion of the former state highway through Lobitos has become Verde Road. The Lobitos Creek Cut-Off connects the village with Tunitas Creek Road, which runs between Highway 1 and State Route 35 (Skyline Boulevard
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City skylines serv ...
).
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