page_title: Port Ballona, California
hierarchical_section_title: Port Ballona, California
caption_attribution_description: Image cropped from USGS Topo Map showing location of Port Ballona relative to the La Ballona Rancho in the year 1896. This area is now the location of Playa del Rey, Marina del Rey, and the Ballona Wetlands. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playa_del_Rey,_Los_Angeles
context_page_description: Port Ballona was situated, from circa 1859 to 1903, near the center of Santa Monica Bay in coastal Los Angeles County, where currently Playa Del Rey and Del Rey Lagoon is located. The name comes from the Mexican La Ballona land grant. Port Ballona consisted of the current Del Rey Lagoon Park but conceptually embraced including the current Ballona Wetlands State Ecological Reserve. The estuarine river, Ballona Creek flows into the marsh and alongside the marsh within earthen levees that are soft-bottomed wetland soil.
context_section_description: Port Ballona was situated, from circa 1859 to 1903, near the center of Santa Monica Bay in coastal Los Angeles County, where currently Playa Del Rey and Del Rey Lagoon is located. The name comes from the Mexican La Ballona land grant.  Port Ballona consisted of the current Del Rey Lagoon Park but conceptually embraced including the current Ballona Wetlands State Ecological Reserve. The estuarine river, Ballona Creek flows into the marsh and alongside the marsh within earthen levees that are soft-bottomed wetland soil.
caption: La Ballona map of 1896,
   present day location of Playa del Rey, Marina del Rey, and the Ballona Wetlands.
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