Tunitas, California

Coordinates: 37°22′59″N 122°23′57″W / 37.38306°N 122.39917°W / 37.38306; -122.39917
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Tunitas, California
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Tunitas on 1940 USGS topo map
Early planning of stops on the Ocean Shore Railroad included a station or flag stop at Lobitos near Tunitas.
Tunitas station was on Tunitas Creek, south of the settlement.

Tunitas, California was a small unincorporated community in San Mateo County. It was originally located on State Route 1 until that state route was moved to the west. It was also renamed Lobitos.[1]

Arroyo de las Tunitas is shown on the diseños, about 1839, of the San Gregorio and Canada Verde grants.[2] The name means “A small bush…grows super-abundant at and near its mouth, and its fruit is known to the present generation as sea apples.”[3]

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