Santa Monica Bay

Santa Monica Bay is a bight of the Pacific Ocean in , United States. Its boundaries are slightly ambiguous, but it is generally considered to be the part of the Pacific within an imaginary line drawn between , in , and the .
Wikipedia
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  • Type: Bay
  • Description: bay of the Pacific Ocean in Southern California, United States
  • Also known as: “San Fernando Bay”
  • Address: CA

Places of Interest

Highlights include Del Rey Lagoon Park and St. Bernard High School.

Park
is a 14-acre (57,000 m and is 1,250 ft long and approximately 350 ft wide. The depth of the lagoon circa 1959 was four to six feet.

School
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is a four-year coeducational high school located in Playa Del Rey, California, which is in the West Los Angeles area. The school is located next to the , across from Westchester High School.

Wastewater treatment plant
Photo: Bettinafilms, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Hyperion Water Reclamation Plant is a sewage treatment plant in southwest Los Angeles, California, next to on Santa Monica Bay.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Palisades del Rey, California and Playa del Rey.

Locality
Photo: USGS, Public domain.
Palisades del Rey was a 1921 neighborhood land development by Dickinson & Gillespie Co. that later came to be called the Playa del Rey district of Los Angeles County, .

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offers beautiful beaches overlooking the Pacific Ocean just a few miles north of .

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is a community of 39,000 people on the West Side of that is best known as the world's largest man-made small craft harbor, capable of berthing 5,300 boats.

Santa Monica Bay

Latitude
33.93501° or 33° 56′ 6″ north
Longitude
-118.46674° or 118° 28′ 0″ west
Elevation
43 feet (13 metres)
Open location code
8553WGPM+28
Open­Street­Map ID
node 369171015
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­bay
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Geo­Names ID
5393214
Wiki­data ID
Q999063
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Satellite Map

Discover Santa Monica Bay from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Venetian—“Santa Monica Bay” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “خليج سانتا مونيكا”
  • Catalan: “Santa Monica Bay”
  • Cebuano: “Santa Monica Bay”
  • Central Kurdish: “کەنداوی سانتا مۆنیکا”
  • Chinese: “圣莫尼卡湾”
  • Chinese: “聖莫妮卡灣”
  • Chinese: “聖莫尼卡灣”
  • Dutch: “Santa Monica Bay”
  • Esperanto: “Golfo de Santa Monica”
  • French: “baie de Santa Monica”
  • French: “Baie de Santa Monica”
  • German: “Bucht von Santa Monica”
  • German: “Santa Monica Bay”
  • Hebrew: “מפרץ סנטה מוניקה”
  • Japanese: “サンタモニカ湾”
  • Polish: “Santa Monica Bay”
  • Portuguese: “Baía de Santa Monica”
  • Portuguese: “Baía de Santa Mônica”
  • Romanian: “Golful Santa Monica”
  • Russian: “Санта-Моника (залив)”
  • Russian: “Санта-Моника”
  • Slovenian: “Santa Monica Bay”
  • Slovenian: “Zaliv svete Monike”
  • Spanish: “Bahia de Santa Monica”
  • Spanish: “Bahía de Santa Mónica”
  • Swedish: “Santa Monica Bay”
  • Venetian: “Baja de Santa Mónica”

Localities in the Area

Explore places such as El Segundo and Venice Canal Historic District.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Vista del Mar Park and Trask Triangle Park.

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