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with the term "southern California" popularly referring to this more populated and visited zone.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dEj_XIsJg1cC |title=Weekly Weather and Crop Bulletin |date=1994 |publisher=The Bureau |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Southern California |url=https://discovercaliforniawines.co.uk/discover-california/southern-california/ |access-date=2022-11-23 |website=Discover California Wines |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Southern California – Travel guide at Wikivoyage |url=https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Southern_California |access-date=2022-11-23 |website=en.wikivoyage.org |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=A Map of the Best California Regions |url=https://www.tripsavvy.com/california-regions-map-1479729 |access-date=2022-11-23 |website=TripSavvy |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=California Regions Research Resources {{!}} K-5 Technology Lab |url=https://oakdome.com/k5/lesson-plans/california-regions/california-regions.php |access-date=2022-11-23 |website=oakdome.com}}</ref>
{{Short description|Coastal region of California, United States}}
{{Short description|Coastal region of California, United States}}
{{For|the California wine region|South Coast AVA}}
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The '''South Coast''' is a [[List of regions of California|region]] of [[California]], making up roughly the southernmost third of the [[Coastal California|Californian coast]]. It refers, for the most part, to the ''coastal'' parts of the [[Southern California]]n counties of [[Ventura County, California|Ventura]], [[Los Angeles County, California|Los Angeles]], [[Orange County, California|Orange]], and [[San Diego County, California|San Diego]]. It is characterized by a cosmopolitan "[[SoCal]]" atmosphere,
The '''South Coast''' is a [[List of regions of California|region]] of [[California]], making up roughly the southernmost third of the [[Coastal California|Californian coast]].
even the term "Southern California" sometimes referring to this specific more populated and visited zone<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dEj_XIsJg1cC |title=Weekly Weather and Crop Bulletin |date=1994 |publisher=The Bureau |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Southern California |url=https://discovercaliforniawines.co.uk/discover-california/southern-california/ |access-date=2022-11-23 |website=Discover California Wines |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Southern California – Travel guide at Wikivoyage |url=https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Southern_California |access-date=2022-11-23 |website=en.wikivoyage.org |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=A Map of the Best California Regions |url=https://www.tripsavvy.com/california-regions-map-1479729 |access-date=2022-11-23 |website=TripSavvy |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=California Regions Research Resources {{!}} K-5 Technology Lab |url=https://oakdome.com/k5/lesson-plans/california-regions/california-regions.php |access-date=2022-11-23 |website=oakdome.com}}</ref>, and location of [[List of United States urban areas|major urban]] coastal centers. Of these counties only the western two-thirds of San Diego, coastal half of Ventura, most of Los Angeles and all of Orange are included.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://ceres.ca.gov/geo_area/bioregions/South_Coast/about.html |title=The South Coast Bioregion – An Overview |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=2013 |website=California Natural Resources Agency |publisher=State of California |access-date=27 January 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150324233233/http://ceres.ca.gov/geo_area/bioregions/South_Coast/about.html |archive-date=24 March 2015}}</ref>


A [[Southern California]] coastal [[bioregion]] is defined by [[California Environmental Resources Evaluation System]] (CERES) as including parts of six counties: the western section of [[Ventura County, California|Ventura]], all of [[Orange County, California|Orange]], the majority of [[Los Angeles County, California|Los Angeles]], the southwestern corner of [[San Bernardino County|San Bernardino]], the western area of [[Riverside County|Riverside]], and the majority of western [[San Diego County, California|San Diego]]. CERES calls this the South Coast Bioregion.<ref name=CERES>{{cite web |url=http://ceres.ca.gov/geo_area/bioregions/South_Coast/about.html |title=The South Coast Bioregion – An Overview |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=2013 |website=California Natural Resources Agency |publisher=State of California |access-date=27 January 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150324233233/http://ceres.ca.gov/geo_area/bioregions/South_Coast/about.html |archive-date=24 March 2015}}</ref>
In addition, some sources also include the western part of [[Riverside County, California|Riverside County]], and southwestern part of [[San Bernardino County]], and sometimes even the northwestern corner of Baja California, because of their proximity to the Pacific Coast and because they are in the same urban, economic and cultural region, and also in the same bio-region and watershed.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.phrelin.com/3Cals/Rationale.htm|title=Three Californias Rationale|website=www.phrelin.com|access-date=10 April 2018}}</ref>{{unreliable source?|date=January 2015}}

==Smuggling==
During the [[Prohibition in the United States|prohibition era]] the waters of the South Coast were a popular smuggling route in for [[Alcoholic beverage|alcohol]].<ref name="NYT9DEC2012">{{cite news |title=Land Routes Blocked, Smuggling Rises Sharply on California Coast |author=Ian Lovett |url=http://mobile.nytimes.com/2012/12/09/us/smuggling-is-on-the-rise-off-southern-california-coast.xml |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130208152518/http://mobile.nytimes.com/2012/12/09/us/smuggling-is-on-the-rise-off-southern-california-coast.xml |url-status=dead |archive-date=8 February 2013 |newspaper=[[New York Times]] |date=9 December 2012 |access-date=29 December 2012 }}</ref> With increased security at the [[Mexico–United States border]] smuggling has increased;<ref name="NYT9DEC2012" /> during the 2011 fiscal year, more than 200 smuggling vessels were observed.<ref name="NYT9DEC2012" /> Most of the vessels attempt to off load their cargo of [[War on Drugs|drugs]] and/or [[Illegal immigration to the United States|illegal immigrants]] in San Diego County;<ref>{{cite news |last=Jennewein |first=Chris |date=28 August 2014 |title=Panga Boat Carrying 20 Caught off Oceanside |url=http://timesofsandiego.com/crime/2014/08/28/panga-boat-carrying-20-caught-oceanside/ |newspaper=Times of San diego |access-date=26 September 2014 }}<br/>{{cite news |last=Garske |first=Monica |date=26 September 2014 |title=Several Arrested After Panga Boat Washes Ashore |url=http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/Panga-Boat-Mission-Beach-Border-Patrol-Arrests-277207871.html |newspaper=KNSD |access-date=26 September 2014 }}<br/>{{cite news |last=Hayden |first=Tyler |date=3 February 2012 |title=More and More Smugglers Take to the Sea |url=http://www.independent.com/news/2012/feb/03/drug-and-migrant-smugglers-take-sea/ |work=Independent |location=Santa Barbara |access-date=6 May 2018 }}<br/>{{cite news |last=Gaynor |first=Tim |agency=Reuters |date=11 August 2008 |title=Mexico smugglers ply sea route to California |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-mexico-smuggling/mexico-smugglers-ply-sea-route-to-california-idUSN1052384220080811 |access-date=6 May 2008 }}</ref> however, destinations are as far north as the [[California Central Coast]].<ref name="NYT9DEC2012" /><ref>{{cite news |last=Van Slyke |first=Matt |date=7 March 2018 |title=Panga drug smuggling boat found on local beach |url=http://www.ksby.com/story/37674024/panga-drug-smuggling-boat-found-on-local-beach |work=KSBY |location=San Luis Obispo |access-date=6 May 2018 }}<br/>{{cite news |last=Swanston |first=Brenna |date=24 May 2017 |title=Another panga boat discovered on local beach |url=http://www.santamariasun.com/news/16106/another-panga-boat-discovered-on-local-beach/ |work=Sun |location=Santa Maria |access-date=6 May 2018 }}</ref> Often, vessels used for smuggling operations are abandoned upon making landfall.<ref>{{cite news |title=For Boat Captain, Rescuing Maritime Smugglers Is Part Of The Job |author=Jill Replogle |url=http://www.kpbs.org/news/2012/dec/20/boat-captain-rescuing-maritime-smugglers-part-job/ |newspaper=KPBS |date=20 December 2012 |access-date=28 December 2012}}<br/>{{cite news |last=Winkley |first=Lyndsay |date=25 August 2014 |title=7 who fled from washed up panga located |url=http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2014/aug/25/panga-boat-mission-beach-border-patrol/ |newspaper=San Diego Union Tribune |publisher=MLIM Company |access-date=25 August 2014 }}</ref>

Most often smuggling utilizes small boats, often [[Panga (skiff)|Panga]]s.<ref name=DB2018>{{cite news |last=Kryt |first=Jeremy |date=26 August 2017 |title=What Will Billions for The Wall Get Us? ‘Boat People’ on America’s Coasts. |url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/what-will-billions-for-the-wall-get-us-boat-people-on-americas-coasts |work=Daily Beast |location=New York, New York |access-date=6 May 2018 }}</ref> Additionally, larger craft are utilized, either having crew members smuggling illicit items aboard, or hiding illicit items in shipping containers.<ref name=DB2018 /> In one case, a [[Narco-submarine]] was caught near the [[Channel Islands (California)|Channel Islands]].<ref name=LAT2017>{{cite news |last=Serna |first=Joseph |date=21 September 2017 |title=More than 50,000 pounds of cocaine and heroin seized by Coast Guard crews in Pacific since August |url=http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-coast-guard-drug-seizures-pacific-20170921-story.html |work= Los Angeles Times |access-date=6 May 2018 }}</ref> In March 2018, the [[United States Coast Guard]] estimates it only interdicts a quarter of what is smuggled to the United States through the Pacific Ocean.<ref>{{cite news |agency=Associated Press |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=US, Mexico Launch Major Maritime Drug Smuggling Crackdown |url=http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2018/03/29/us-mexico-launch-major-maritime-drug-smuggling-crackdown/ |work=KPIX |location=San Francisco |date=29 March 2018 |access-date=6 May 2018 }}</ref>


==See also ==
==See also ==
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* [[North Coast (California)]]
* [[North Coast (California)]]
* [[South Coast Air Basin]]
* [[South Coast Air Basin]]
* [[Los Angeles metropolitan area|Southland]]
* [[Southern California]]
* [[Southern California]]


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For the California wine region, see South Coast AVA.
South Coast
Region of California
CountryUnited States
StateCalifornia
Population
16.1 million in 1990[1]

The South Coast is a region of California, making up roughly the southernmost third of the Californian coast.

A Southern California coastal bioregion is defined by California Environmental Resources Evaluation System (CERES) as including parts of six counties: the western section of Ventura, all of Orange, the majority of Los Angeles, the southwestern corner of San Bernardino, the western area of Riverside, and the majority of western San Diego. CERES calls this the South Coast Bioregion.[1]

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References

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  1. ^ a b "The South Coast Bioregion – An Overview". California Natural Resources Agency. State of California. 2013. Archived from the original on 24 March 2015. Retrieved 27 January 2015.
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