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Monterey County
is a county located on the
Pacific coast of the U.S.
state of California, its northwestern section
forming the southern half of Monterey Bay. The
northern half of the bay is in Santa Cruz County. As
of 2000, the population was 401,762. The county seat
is Salinas. Monterey County is a member of the
regional governmental agency, Association of
Monterey Bay Area Governments.
The coastline,
including
Big Sur,
State Route 1, and the
17 Mile Drive on the
Monterey Peninsula has made the county world famous.
The city of
Monterey was the capital
of California under Spanish and Mexican rule. The
economy is primarily based upon tourism in the
coastal regions, and agriculture in the Salinas
River valley.
Most of the county's people live near the northern
coast and Salinas valley, while the southern coast
and inland mountain regions are almost devoid of
human habitation.
The county derived its name
from
Monterey Bay. The bay was
named by
Sebastián Vizcaíno in 1602
in honor of the Conde de Monterrey (or
'Count of Monterrey'), then the Viceroy of New
Spain.
Monterrey is a variation of
Monterrei, a municipality
in the Galicia region of Spain from which the Conde de Monterrey and his father (the Fourth
Count of Monterrei) were from.
According to the U.S. Census
Bureau, the county has a total area of 3,771 square
miles (9,767 km²),
of which 3,322 square miles (8,604 km²) is land and
449 square miles (1,163 km²) (11.91%) is water. The
county is roughly 1.5 times larger than the state of
Delaware.
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