Playa del Rey
Playa del Rey offers beautiful beaches overlooking the Pacific Ocean just a few miles north of Los Angeles International Airport.Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
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- Type: Quarter
- Description: neighborhood in Los Angeles, California, United States of America
- Also known as: “Playa del Rey, Los Angeles” and “Port Ballona”
- Postal codes: 90293 and 90296
Places of Interest
Highlights include Loyola Marymount University and Ballona Wetlands.
Loyola Marymount University
University
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Loyola Marymount University, formerly St. Vincent's College, is a private Jesuit and Marymount research university in Los Angeles, California. LMU enrolls over 10,000 undergraduate and graduate students, making it the largest Catholic university on the West Coast of the United States.
Ballona Wetlands
Nature reserve
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Ballona Wetlands Ecological Reserve is a protected area that once served as the natural estuary for neighboring Ballona Creek. The 577-acre site is located in Los Angeles County, California, just south of Marina del Rey.
Del Rey Lagoon Park
Park
Del Rey Lagoon 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.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Marina del Rey and Westchester.
Marina del Rey
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Marina del Rey is a community of 39,000 people on the West Side of Los Angeles that is best known as the world's largest man-made small craft harbor, capable of berthing 5,300 boats.
Westchester
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Westchester is a neighborhood of Los Angeles on the West Side of Los Angeles County in Southern California. While it's not a part of Westchester, the community of Playa Vista is also covered in this article.
Playa Vista
Quarter
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Playa Vista is a neighborhood in the Westside area of Los Angeles, California, United States. The area was the headquarters of Hughes Aircraft Company from 1941 to 1985 and the site of the construction of the Hughes H-4 Hercules "Spruce Goose" aircraft.
Playa del Rey
- Categories: district or neighborhood of Los Angeles and locality
- Location: Westside, Los Angeles, Southern California, California, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
33.9541° or 33° 57′ 15″ northLongitude
-118.4388° or 118° 26′ 20″ westElevation
20 feet (6 metres)United Nations Location Code
US PYQOpen location code
8553XH36+MFOpenStreetMap ID
node 150971893OpenStreetMap feature
place=quarterGeoNames ID
5383633Wikidata ID
Q7203174
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Urdu—“Playa del Rey” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Playa del Rey”
- French: “Playa del Rey”
- Japanese: “プラヤ・デル・レイ”
- Polish: “Playa del Rey”
- Russian: “Плая-дель-Рей”
- Spanish: “Playa del Rey (California)”
- Spanish: “Playa Del Rey (California)”
- Spanish: “Playa del Rey (Los Angeles)”
- Spanish: “Playa Del Rey (Los Angeles)”
- Spanish: “Playa Del Rey (Los Ángeles)”
- Spanish: “Playa del Rey”
- Spanish: “Playa Del Rey”
- Swedish: “Playa del Rey”
- Urdu: “پلایا دیل رے، لاس اینجلس”
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