Montecito
Montecito is an upscale community in Santa Barbara County that is home to high end resorts and the rich and famous including Oprah Winfrey and Rob Lowe.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 8,970 residents
- Description: unincorporated census-designated place in Santa Barbara County, California, United States
- Also known as: “Montecito, CA”, “Montecito, California”, and “Monticito”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Casa del Herrero and Santa Barbara Zoo.
Casa del Herrero
Museum
Photo: Mike Boucher, CC BY 2.0.
Casa del Herrero is a historic house museum and botanical garden located in Montecito near Santa Barbara, California. It was designed by George Washington Smith, and is considered one of the finest examples of Spanish Colonial Revival architecture in the United States of America.
Santa Barbara Zoo
Zoo
Photo: Dakart, Public domain.
The Santa Barbara Zoo is located on 30 acres near the ocean in Santa Barbara, California. It was built on the site of what was known as the Child Estate. Santa Barbara Zoo is situated 2 miles southwest of Montecito.
Andree Clark Bird Refuge
Park
Andrée Clark Bird Refuge, a 42-acre freshwater/brackish lake, an artificially modified estuary, which drains through East Beach into the Pacific Ocean.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Santa Barbara and Summerland.
Santa Barbara
Photo: Raduranga, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Santa Barbara is a city and metropolitan area less than 100 miles from Los Angeles but vastly different in pace from its huge neighbor to the south. With a temperate climate and lush natural environs, the "Riviera of the West" is a pleasant day or weekend trip from L.A.
Summerland
Village
Photo: Antandrus, Public domain.
Summerland is a census designated place in Santa Barbara County, California. The population was 1,222 at the 2020 census, down from 1,448 at the 2010 census. The town includes a school and a Presbyterian Church. There are many small businesses. Summerland is situated 2½ miles southeast of Montecito.
Toro Canyon
Village
Toro Canyon is a census-designated place in Santa Barbara County, California, United States. The population was 1,835 at the 2020 census, up from 1,508 at the 2010 census. Toro Canyon is situated 4 miles east of Montecito.
Montecito
Latitude
34.4367° or 34° 26′ 12″ northLongitude
-119.6321° or 119° 37′ 56″ westPopulation
8,970Elevation
180 feet (55 metres)United Nations Location Code
US ZMOOpen location code
8562C9P9+M5OpenStreetMap ID
node 150934228OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Volapük—“Montecito” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مونتيسيتو”
- Armenian: “Մոնտեսիտո”
- Asturian: “Montecito”
- Basque: “Montecito”
- Bulgarian: “Монтесито”
- Catalan: “Montecito”
- Cebuano: “Montecito”
- Chechen: “Монтесито”
- Chinese: “Montecito”
- Chinese: “蒙特斯托”
- Chinese: “蒙特西托”
- Croatian: “Montecito”
- Danish: “Montecito”
- Dutch: “Montecito”
- French: “Montecito”
- Galician: “Montecito”
- German: “Montecito”
- Gilaki: “مؤنتهسيتؤ”
- Greek: “Μοντεσίτο”
- Hebrew: “מונטסיטו”
- Irish: “Montecito”
- Italian: “Montecito”
- Japanese: “モンテシート”
- Japanese: “モンテチト”
- Korean: “몬테시토”
- Ladin: “Montecito”
- Luxembourgish: “Montecito”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Montecito”
- Newari: “मोन्तेसितो (क्यालिफोर्निया)”
- Newari: “मोन्तेसितो, क्यालिफोर्निया”
- Newari: “मोन्तेसितो”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Montecito”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Montecito”
- Norwegian: “Montecito”
- Persian: “مونتسیتو، کالیفرنیا”
- Persian: “مونتسیتو”
- Polish: “Montecito”
- Portuguese: “Montecito”
- Russian: “Монтесито”
- Serbian: “Монтекито”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Montecito, California”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Montecito”
- Silesian: “Montecito”
- Slovenian: “Montecito”
- South Azerbaijani: “مونتسیتو، کالیفورنیا”
- Spanish: “Montecito (California)”
- Spanish: “Montecito”
- Swedish: “Montecito”
- Tatar: “Монтесито”
- Turkish: “Montecito, Kaliforniya”
- Turkish: “Montecito”
- Ukrainian: “Монтесіто”
- Volapük: “Montecito”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Montecito”. Photo: Grandhiking, CC BY-SA 3.0.