Carpinteria, California

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Carpentaria is a city in Santa Barbara County, California. It had a population of 13,040 inhabitants at the 2010 census.
The Spanish named the area "Carpinteria" because the Chumash tribe, which lived in the area, had a large seagoing canoe-building enterprise, or "carpentry shop" there; this was due to the availability of naturally-occurring surface tar which was used to seal the canoes. Tar seeps are still visible at selected sites, such as Tar Pits Park on the campground beach of Carpinteria State Beach. The three closest drilling platforms visible from the shore are within the Carpinteria Offshore Oil Field, the 50th-largest field in California.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carpinteria,_California
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Coordinates:   34°23'45"N   119°30'50"W
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