La Peña Cultural Center
La Peña Cultural Center, or La Peña for short, is a multicultural center in the United States. It was founded in 1975 by Latin American and Californian allies in Berkeley, California in response to the 1973 coup d'état in Chile, or golpe de estado.Photo: Harmonywriter, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Building
- Description: geographical object
- Address: 3105 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94705
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Ashby station and Wat Mongkolratanaram.
Ashby station
Metro station
Photo: Pi.1415926535, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Ashby station is an underground Bay Area Rapid Transit station in Berkeley, California. The station is located beneath Adeline Street to the south of its intersection with Ashby Avenue. Ashby station is situated 1,100 feet west of La Peña Cultural Center.
Wat Mongkolratanaram
Buddhist temple
Photo: Charles Hutchins, CC BY 2.0.
Wat Mongkolratanaram is a small Thai Buddhist temple located in Berkeley, California. A wat, it mainly attracts Thai American Buddhists, many of whom are students at the University of California, Berkeley, but it also draws in many local, non-Buddhists who come searching for the authentic Thai food public brunch on Sundays or attend its frequent cultural events. Wat Mongkolratanaram is situated 1,900 feet northwest of La Peña Cultural Center.
Bushrod, Oakland, California
Park
Photo: Sapphic, Public domain.
The Bushrod neighborhood in North Oakland, Oakland, California, is an area surrounding its namesake park, and bounded by Martin Luther King, Jr. Way to the west, Claremont Avenue to the east, Highway 24 to the south, and the Berkeley border to the north.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lorin District and South Berkeley.
Lorin District
Neighborhood
The Lorin District is a neighborhood located in the southern part of Berkeley, California, bounded by Ashby Avenue to the north, Adeline Street and Martin Luther King Jr.
South Berkeley
Neighborhood
South Berkeley is a neighborhood in the city of Berkeley, California. It extends roughly from Dwight Way to the city’s border with Oakland, between Telegraph Avenue in the east and either Sacramento Street or San Pablo Avenue in the west.
Idora Park
Neighborhood
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Idora Park was a 17.5-acre Victorian era trolley park in north Oakland, California constructed in 1904 on the site of an informal park setting called Ayala Park on the north banks of Temescal Creek.
La Peña Cultural Center
- Category: cultural center
- Location: Alameda, California, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
37.85282° or 37° 51′ 10″ northLongitude
-122.26589° or 122° 15′ 57″ westLevels
1Open location code
849VVP3M+4JOpenStreetMap ID
way 278746051OpenStreetMap feature
building=Cultural_CenterWikidata ID
Q950366
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In Other Languages
“La Peña Cultural Center” goes by many names.
- Spanish: “Centro Cultural de La Peña”
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