The Santa Lucia Mountains or Santa Lucia Range is a mountain range in coastal California, running from Monterey southeast for 170 km to San Luis Obispo. The highest summit is Junipero Serra Peak, 1786 m, at 36° 08' 44"N 121° 25' 10"W in Monterey County, California. It is part of the Pacific Coast Ranges.
Ventana Wilderness Alliance (http://www.ventanawild.org): Dedicated to the protection, preservation, enhancement and restoration of the wilderness qualities and biodiversity of the public lands within California's northern Santa Lucia Mountains.
SantaLucia Firs, found only here, grow in remote and rocky places in a range only 12 miles wide and 55 miles long.
his range is the southernmost home for at least 225 plants from the north, and the northernmost home for at least 90 species from the south.
Water surrounded the SantaLuciarange, until slowly the Salinas Valley and the Salinan Block, a vast land mass that extends south to Santa Barbara, filled with sediment and became rich growing land.
The SantaLucia Mountains or SantaLuciaRange is a mountain range in coastal California, running from Monterey southeast for 105 miles (170 km) to San Luis Obispo.
The first European to document the SantaLucias was Juan RodrÃguez Cabrillo in 1542 while sailing northward along the coast on a Spanish naval expedition.
The rock of the SantaLucias is dominated by granitic basement of the Salinian Block, between the San Andreas fault and Sur-Nacimiento fault.
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