Palos Verdes
The Palos Verdes Peninsula rises above the South Bay of Los Angeles County. It's an oasis of greenery in a Los Angeles region dominated by concrete and asphalt; it features horse trails, ocean cliffs, tidepools, Eucalyptus trees, and nature walks.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Peninsula
- Description: landform and a geographic sub-region of the Los Angeles metropolitan area
- Also known as: “Palos Verdes Peninsula” and “Palos Verdes Peninsula, California”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Del Cerro Park and Congregation Ner Tamid.
Del Cerro Park
Park
Del Cerro Park is a public park located in Rancho Palos Verdes, Los Angeles County, California. The park is situated high atop a bluff at the southernmost end of Crenshaw Boulevard.
Congregation Ner Tamid
Synagogue
Congregation Ner Tamid, officially Congregation Ner Tamid of South Bay, is a Conservative Jewish congregation and synagogue, located at 5721 Crestridge Road, Rancho Palos Verdes, Los Angeles, California, in the United States.
Pacific Unitarian Church
Pacific Unitarian Church is a Unitarian Universalist congregation located in Rancho Palos Verdes, California. It is a member of the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations, within the Pacific Southwest District.Places in the Area
Nearby places include Rancho Palos Verdes and Palos Verdes Estates.
Rancho Palos Verdes
Town
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Rancho Palos Verdes is an affluent coastal city in southern Los Angeles County, California, United States. Incorporated on September 7, 1973, the city has a population of 42,287 as reported in the 2020 United States census.
Palos Verdes Estates
Suburb
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Palos Verdes Estates is an affluent coastal city in Los Angeles County, California, United States, situated on the Palos Verdes Peninsula and neighboring Rancho Palos Verdes and Rolling Hills Estates.
Rolling Hills Estates
Suburb
Photo: Clotee Allochuku, CC BY 2.0.
Rolling Hills Estates is an affluent city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. On the northern side of the Palos Verdes Peninsula, facing Torrance, Rolling Hills Estates is mostly residential.
Palos Verdes
- Categories: unincorporated community in the United States and landform
- Location: South Bay, Los Angeles, Southern California, California, United States, North America
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Palos Verdes” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “شبه جزيرة بالوس فردس”
- Arabic: “شبه جزيرة بالوس فيرديس”
- Armenian: “Պալոս Վերդես”
- Belarusian: “Палас-Вердэс”
- Catalan: “Palos Verdes”
- Cebuano: “Palos Verdes Peninsula”
- Chinese: “帕洛斯弗迪斯半島”
- Chinese: “帕洛斯維德斯”
- Chinese: “帕洛斯維德斯半島”
- Chinese: “帕洛斯维德斯半岛”
- Chinese: “帕罗斯·弗迪斯”
- Chinese: “帕羅斯·弗迪斯”
- Danish: “Palos Verdes”
- Dutch: “Palos Verdes”
- Finnish: “Palos Verdes”
- French: “péninsule de Palos Verdes”
- French: “Péninsule de Palos Verdes”
- Galician: “Palos Verdes”
- German: “Palos Verdes”
- Hebrew: “פאלוס ורדס, קליפורניה”
- Irish: “Leithinis Palos Verdes”
- Italian: “Palos Verdes”
- Italian: “Penisola di Palos Verdes”
- Japanese: “パロス・ベルデス”
- Japanese: “パロスベルデス”
- Luxembourgish: “Palos Verdes”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Palos Verdes”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Palos Verdes”
- Persian: “پالوس وردس”
- Portuguese: “Palos Verdes”
- Romanian: “Palos Verdes”
- Russian: “Палос-Вердес”
- Slovenian: “Palos Verdes”
- South Azerbaijani: “پالوز وردز پنینزولا”
- Spanish: “Palos Verdes Peninsula (California)”
- Spanish: “Palos Verdes”
- Swedish: “Palos Verdes”
- Turkish: “Palos Verdes Yarımadası”
- Ukrainian: “Палос-Вердес”
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