Santa Barbara
A city of southern California on the Santa Barbara Channel
at the foot of the Santa Ynez Mountains, west-northwest of Los Angeles. Site of an early Spanish presidio and the beautiful Mission Santa Barbara (1786 and still in use). The first American settler arrived here in 1816. The site was named by the Spanish explorer Sebastián Vizcaíno, who anchored offshore on the feast day of St. Barbara in 1602. Population, 85,500+.
California A state of the western United States on the Pacific Ocean. It was admitted as the 31st state in 1850. The area was colonized by the Spanish and formally ceded to the United States by the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848). Sacramento is the capital and Los Angeles the largest city. Population, 29,839,250+.
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