San Luis Obispo is a city and county seat of San Luis Obispo County, in the US state of California.
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20 Facts About San Luis Obispo
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San Luis Obispo was founded by the Spanish in 1772, when Saint Junipero Serra established Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa.
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Today, San Luis Obispo is a popular tourist destination, known for its historic architecture, vineyards, and hospitality, as well as for being home to California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo.
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One of the earliest villages lies south of San Luis Obispo and reflects the landscape of the early Holocene when estuaries came farther inland.
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The tribal site on present-day San Luis Obispo was named tilhini, Obispeno for "Place of the full moon".
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Mission San Diego was the first Spanish mission founded in Alta California that same year.
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San Luis Obispo once had a burgeoning Chinatown in the vicinity of Palm Street and Chorro Street.
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San Luis Obispo is located on US Route 101, about 31 miles north of Santa Maria.
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San Luis Obispo is on the West Coast of the United States and in the Central Coast of California.
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San Luis Obispo is a seismically active area; there are a number of nearby faults including the San Andreas Fault.
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Measurable snowfall in San Luis Obispo has not officially been recorded since records began in 1870, although photos show about 0.
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The median household income in San Luis Obispo County was $60,534, and the median family income was $72,327.
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Fire department of San Luis Obispo was first organized in 1872 and now has 45 full-time firefighters and four fire stations.
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All public K–12 institutions in San Luis Obispo are operated by San Luis Coastal Unified School District, which contains six elementary schools, one middle school, and one high school, San Luis Obispo High School.
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San Luis Obispo is home to California Polytechnic State University, a public university enrolling 21,812 students as of Fall 2018.
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One of the largest Mardi Gras parades west of the Mississippi was held in San Luis Obispo, but canceled in 2005 because of difficulties related to crowd control and alcohol consumption.
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One of the cultural focal centers of San Luis Obispo is the Christopher Cohan Performing Arts Center built on the Cal Poly campus, which was constructed utilizing the donations of local businesses and individuals.
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San Luis Obispo has more than 180 historic buildings that have been designated as City of San Luis Obispo Historic Resources.
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US Route 101 and California State Route 1 are the major north–south highways in San Luis Obispo, linking the city to the rest of the Central Coast region, San Francisco to the north, and Los Angeles to the south.
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