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    The El Sur Ranch, located on the Big Sur coast of California, has been continuously operated as a cattle ranch since 1834. The approximately 7,100 acres...
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    Pico Blanco (category Big Sur)
    California. The lower western slopes of the mountain are the property of the El Sur Ranch. The Old Coast Road built in the early 1900s cuts across its western...
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  • up sur or sûr in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Sur, SUR or El Sur may refer to: Sur (film), a 1988 Argentine film directed by Fernando Solanas Sur, a...
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    one-half of Rancho El Sur is still an operating cattle ranch. Rancho San Jose y Sur Chiquito In 1839, Alvarado granted Rancho San Jose y Sur Chiquito, also...
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    Salinas Valley. Rancho El Sur was partitioned into fifteen lots by 1892. Lots one through thirteen comprise the present-day El Sur Ranch. Lots 14 and 15 were...
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    volume on the Big Sur coast. Water is diverted to a small group of homeowners, and the state claims that wells owned by the El Sur Ranch are diverting underflow...
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    States in 1961, Thompson visited San Francisco and eventually lived in Big Sur, where he spent eight months as security guard and caretaker at Slates Hot...
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    Hill and crossed the Little Sur River where its two forks diverted. The road entered the Cooper Ranch (formerly Rancho El Sur) and continued south about...
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    Ansel Adams (category People from Big Sur, California)
    month-long camping trip in Arizona, with Orville Cox, the head wrangler at Ghost Ranch, as their guide. Both artists created new work during this trip. Adams made...
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    portion of the coast were named El Rio Grande del Sur and El Rio Chiquito del Sur.: 7  The first recorded use of the name "el Sud" (meaning "the South") was...
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    Bixby Bridge (category Big Sur)
    It also went inland to circumvent the Little Sur River. It then led to the Post Ranch on the Rancho El Sur near present-day Andrew Molera State Park.: 4–2 ...
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    Henry Miller (category Big Sur)
    Hollywood in Beverly Glen, before settling in Big Sur in 1944. While Miller was establishing his base in Big Sur, the Tropic books, then still banned in the...
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    the Molera Ranch, later the foundation of Andrew Molera State Park. The northern 7,100 acres (2,900 ha) form the present-day El Sur Ranch. Before the...
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  • worldwide. With his earnings, Brautigan bought a house in Bolinas and a ranch in Montana. He and his wife had separated when their daughter was two, and...
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  • protected by the Big Sur Local Coastal Plan, which preserves it as "open space, a small residential community, and agricultural ranching." Its intention is...
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    southernmost naturally occurring grove of redwoods is found within the Big Sur region in the Southern Redwood Botanical Area, a 17 acres (6.9 ha) reserve...
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  • Sur Land Trust Newsletter". 2007. Archived from the original on December 8, 2020. Retrieved September 8, 2017. "El Sur Ranch Location". El Sur Ranch....
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    Sand Dollar Beach (category Big Sur)
    Sand Dollar Beach is a .5 miles (0.80 km) long beach in Big Sur, California, one of the longest publicly accessible beaches on that coast. It is within...
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    McWay Falls (category Big Sur)
    Lathrop Brown and his wife Hélène Hooper Brown visited Big Sur. They bought Saddle Rock Ranch, a 1,600-acre (650 ha) property that included a seaside promontory...
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    Portions west of the national forest and Old Coast Road lie within the El Sur Ranch. Some portions of the North Fork are on land owned by Granite Rock Company...
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    California condor (category Big Sur)
    California condors were released in 1991 and 1992 in California at Big Sur, Pinnacles National Park and Bitter Creek National Wildlife Refuge and in...
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    acres (1,800 ha) Palo Corona Ranch, also known as Fish Ranch, was once a private ranch located on the northern end of Big Sur, California, between Garrapata...
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  • Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch is a memoir written by Henry Miller, first published in 1957, about his life in Big Sur, California, where...
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    own cabin on the north bank of the Big Sur River in 1884. The family supported themselves by farming, ranching, logging, and beekeeping. John produced...
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  • El Sur (English: The South) is a 1990 TV movie written and directed by Carlos Saura and is a chapter in the Spanish TV series Los Cuentos de Borges (English:...
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    Ragged Point (California) (category Big Sur)
    end of Big Sur in northern San Luis Obispo County. The Ragged Point Inn and Resort is located in the area, which, as with much of Big Sur, features seaside...
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    Juan B. R. Cooper (category Big Sur)
    Cooper family ran a cattle ranch and dairy operation on Rancho El Sur, employing Hispanic and Indian vaqueros. They supported the Sur School and a community...
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    Esalen Institute (category Big Sur)
    is a non-profit American retreat center and intentional community in Big Sur, California, which focuses on humanistic alternative education. The institute...
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    Esselen (category Big Sur)
    the peak of Bixby Mountain and the upper portions of Mescal Ridge. The El Sur Ranch and Pico Blanco Mountain are to the south. The tract contains old-growth...
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    Nepenthe (restaurant) (category Big Sur)
    Nepenthe is a restaurant in Big Sur, California, built by Bill and Madelaine "Lolly" Fassett and first opened in 1949. It was built around a cabin first...
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