Redondo Beach, California
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Redondo Beach - King Harbor sign
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 Location of Redondo Beach in Los Angeles County, California |
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 Redondo Beach, California
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| Coordinates: 33°51′29″N 118°22′44″W / 33.85806°N 118.37889°WCoordinates: 33°51′29″N 118°22′44″W / 33.85806°N 118.37889°W | |||
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 United States
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 California
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 Los Angeles
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| Incorporated | April 29, 1892 | ||
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| • Mayor | Steve Aspel | ||
| • City Council | Jeff Ginsburg Bill Brand Christian Horvath Stephen Sammarco Laura Emdee |
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| • City treasurer | Steve Diels | ||
| • City clerk | Eleanor Manzano | ||
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| • Total | 6.208 sq mi (16.080 km2) | ||
| • Land | 6.198 sq mi (16.054 km2) | ||
| • Water | 0.010 sq mi (0.026 km2) 0.16% | ||
| Elevation | 62 ft (19 m) | ||
| Population (April 1, 2010) | |||
| • Total | 66,748 | ||
| • Estimate (2013) | 67,815 | ||
| • Density | 11,000/sq mi (4,200/km2) | ||
| Time zone | Pacific (UTC−8) | ||
| • Summer (DST) | PDT (UTC−7) | ||
| ZIP codes | 90277, 90278 | ||
| Area code | 310/424 | ||
| FIPS code | 06-60018 | ||
| GNIS feature IDs | 1652782, 2411535 | ||
| Website | redondo |
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Redondo Beach is one of the three Beach Cities located in Los Angeles County, California, United States. The population was 66,748 at the 2010 census, up from 63,261 at the 2000 census. The city is located in the South Bay region of the greater Los Angeles area.
Redondo Beach was originally part of the 1785 Rancho San Pedro Spanish land grant that later became the South Redondo area. The city's territory has an unusual shape including an area along the beach (South Redondo Beach) and another strip inland from Manhattan Beach and Hermosa Beach (North Redondo Beach). The primary attractions include Municipal Pier and the sandy beach, popular with tourists and a variety of sports enthusiasts. The western terminus of the Metro Rail Green Line is in North Redondo Beach.
The Chowigna Indians used the site of today's Hopkins Wilderness Park, formerly Nike missile site LA-57 from 1956 to 1963, in Redondo Beach, California, as a lookout place. The wetlands located at the site of today's AES power plant in Redondo Beach were a source of foods including halibut, lobster, and sea bass, and also of salt. In the 1700s, the Chowigna bartered salt from the old Redondo Salt Lake, "a spring-fed salt lake about 200 yards wide and 600 yards long situated about 200 yards from the ocean", with other tribes. Their village by the lake was called "Onoova-nga", or "Place of Salt." The Chowigna were relocated to missions in 1854, when Manuel Dominguez sold 215 acres of Rancho San Pedro, including the lake, to Henry Allanson and William Johnson for the Pacific Salt Works.
Moonstone Beach was a tourist attraction from the late 1880s to the early 1920s. Tourists gathered moonstones from the many mounds that had washed ashore during storms.
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