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Goleta

Goleta is a city a few miles west of and part of the contiguous urban area of Santa Barbara, within , . This article also covers the unincorporated community of Isla Vista, which is home to the University of California at Santa Barbara.
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  • Type: Town with 29,900 residents
  • Description: city in Santa Barbara County, California, United States
  • Also known as: “Goleta, CA”, “Goleta, California”, and “La Patera Village”
  • Postal codes: 93116-93118 and 93199

Places of Interest

Highlights include Goleta station and Stow House.

Railway station
Photo: Dreamyshade, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a passenger rail station in the city of Goleta, California. It is served by the Amtrak Pacific Surfliner; it is the northern terminal for three of those round trips.

Museum
The is a historical landmark in Goleta, . Formerly the headquarters of Rancho La Patera, the , in the Carpenter Gothic style, is now the headquarters of Goleta Historical Society which preserves and interprets the history of the Goleta Valley.

Island
Photo: Britta Gustafson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a mesalike island located about 10 miles west of , United States, near the outlet of the into the Pacific Ocean.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Isla Vista and Hope Ranch.

Town
Goleta is a city a few miles west of and part of the contiguous urban area of Santa Barbara, within , . This article also covers the unincorporated community of , which is home to the University of California at Santa Barbara. is situated 2½ miles southwest of Goleta.

Hamlet
Photo: Antandrus, Public domain.
is an unincorporated coastal suburb of , located in Santa Barbara County. It is bounded on the east by , on the north and west by the unincorporated area of the eastern Goleta Valley, and on the south by the Pacific Ocean. is situated 3½ miles east of Goleta.

Goleta

Latitude
34.4358° or 34° 26′ 9″ north
Longitude
-119.8276° or 119° 49′ 40″ west
Population
29,900
Elevation
20 feet (6 metres)
United Nations Location Code
US GO2
Open location code
8562C5PC+8W
Open­Street­Map ID
node 150950661
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
5352963
Wiki­data ID
Q983840
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Waray—“Goleta” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “غوليتا”
  • Basque: “Goleta”
  • Bengali: “গোলেটা”
  • Bulgarian: “Голита”
  • Cebuano: “Goleta”
  • Central Kurdish: “گۆلێتا، کالیفۆرنیا”
  • Chechen: “Голита”
  • Chinese: “Goleta”
  • Chinese: “戈利塔”
  • Croatian: “Goleta”
  • Danish: “Goleta”
  • Danish: “Skonnert”
  • Dutch: “Goleta”
  • Dutch: “Schoener”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جوليتا”
  • Finnish: “Goleta”
  • Finnish: “Kuunari”
  • French: “Goélette”
  • French: “Goleta”
  • German: “Goleta”
  • German: “Schoner”
  • Gilaki: “گولیتا”
  • Greek: “Γκολέτα”
  • Gujarati: “ગોલેટા”
  • Haitian: “Goleta, Kalifòni”
  • Haitian: “Goleta”
  • Hebrew: “גולטה”
  • Hindi: “गोलेटा”
  • Hungarian: “Goleta”
  • Icelandic: “Skonnorta”
  • Indonesian: “Goleta”
  • Irish: “Goleta”
  • Italian: “Goleta”
  • Italian: “Schooner”
  • Japanese: “ゴリータ”
  • Kannada: “ಗೊಲೆಟಾ”
  • Korean: “골레타”
  • Ladin: “Goleta”
  • Latvian: “Goleta”
  • Lithuanian: “Goleta”
  • Luxembourgish: “Goleta”
  • Malagasy: “Goleta, Kalifornia”
  • Malagasy: “Goleta”
  • Malay: “Goleta”
  • Malayalam: “ഗോലെറ്റ”
  • Marathi: “गोलेटा”
  • Mazanderani: “گولیتا (کالیفورنیا)”
  • Mazanderani: “گولیتا”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Goleta”
  • Newari: “गोलेटा (क्यालिफोर्निया)”
  • Newari: “गोलेटा, क्यालिफोर्निया”
  • Newari: “गोलेटा”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Goleta”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Skonnert”
  • Norwegian: “Goleta”
  • Norwegian: “Skonnert”
  • Persian: “گولتا”
  • Persian: “گولیتا، کالیفرنیا”
  • Persian: “گولیتا”
  • Polish: “Goleta”
  • Polish: “Szkuner”
  • Portuguese: “Goleta”
  • Russian: “Голета”
  • Russian: “Голита”
  • Russian: “Шхуна”
  • Serbian: “Goleta”
  • Serbian: “Golita”
  • Serbian: “Голита”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Goleta, California”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Goleta”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Škuna”
  • Sinhala: “ගොලීටා”
  • Slovak: “Škuner”
  • Slovenian: “Goleta”
  • South Azerbaijani: “قولتا، کالیفورنیا”
  • Spanish: “Goleta (California)”
  • Spanish: “Goleta”
  • Swahili: “Goleta, California”
  • Swahili: “Goleta”
  • Swedish: “Goleta, Kalifornien”
  • Swedish: “Goleta”
  • Swedish: “Skonert”
  • Tagalog: “Goleta, California”
  • Tagalog: “Goleta”
  • Tamil: “கோளேடோ”
  • Tatar: “Голита”
  • Telugu: “గోలేటా”
  • Thai: “โกลตา”
  • Turkish: “Goleta, Kaliforniya”
  • Turkish: “Goleta”
  • Ukrainian: “Голета”
  • Ukrainian: “Голіта”
  • Urdu: “جولیتا”
  • Urdu: “گولیتا، کیلیفورنیا”
  • Vietnamese: “Goleta”
  • Volapük: “Goleta”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Goleta, California”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Goleta”

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