Santa Cruz County, California, officially the County of Santa Cruz, is a county on the Pacific coast of the U.S. state of California. As of the 2010 census, the population was 262,382. County seat is Santa Cruz and the county has a total area of 607 square miles, of which 445 square miles is land and 162 square miles is water.
About Santa Cruz County, California in brief
Santa Cruz County, California, officially the County of Santa Cruz, is a county on the Pacific coast of the U.S. state of California. As of the 2010 census, the population was 262,382. Santa Cruz County comprises the Santa Cruz–Watsonville, CA Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is also included in the San Jose–San Francisco–Oakland, CA Combined Statistical Area. The county is on the California Central Coast, south of the San Francisco Bay Area region. It is the second-smallest county in California by land area and third- Smallest by total area. Of California’s counties, only San Francisco is smaller by landArea. County is situated on a wide coastline with over 29 miles of beaches. County has experienced demographic fluctuations in recent history. Between 1990 and 2000, the county’s population increased by 11%. This is primarily because of new births, rather than migration or migration from other races or any other race or immigration. County seat is Santa Cruz and the county has a total area of 607 square miles, of which 445 square miles is land and 162 square miles is water. County was one of the original counties of California, created in 1850 at the time of statehood. It can be divided roughly into four regions: the rugged \”north coast\”; the urban City of Santa. Cruz, Soquel, Capitola, and Aptos; mountainous Bonny Doon, San Lorenzo River Valley; and the fertile \”south county\”, including Watsonville and Corralitos.
County home to the following threatened or endangered species: Historically, tule elk, sometimes confused with bison, were native to the coastal grasslands of SantaCruz County. County parks include Año Nuevo State Marine Conservation Area, Greyhound Rock State Marine Reserve and Natural Bridges State Marine. Reserve. Like underwater protected areas, these marine protected areas help conserve wildlife and marine ecosystems. Santa Cruz Rock State. Area is a marine protected area off the coast Santa Cruz Coast, with underwater marine parks, like underwater underwater protected area, to protect marine ecosystems and marine life. County also home to four late Holocene archeological sites. Pronghorn antelope remains were found at the SCR-20 on the western slope of Ben Lomond Mountain dating to about 1500 A.D. They were also described in Santa Cruz county by Jlli tribelet Awaswas Ohlone people, who utilized elk along with pronghorn and lived on the Jarro Coast. Additionally, there is a \”Cañada del Ciervo\” close to the boundary between Rancho de los Corral itos and Rancho San Andrés, near the present-day Larkin Valley Road. This \”Elk Valley\” place name was given by José Antonio Robles who rode down, roped, and killed elk there in 1831.
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