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Point Conception

Not to be confused with Conception Point.

34°26′53″N 120°28′17″W / 34.448113°N 120.471439°W / 34.448113; -120.471439

Point Conception and the Gaviota Coast from the air, looking southwest. Point Conception Light is visible in blowup (click) at top left center. To the right (west) is Government Point, which partly encloses Cojo Bay. The Santa Ynez Mountains extend east (left) towards Santa Barbara.
Point Conception Light stands on a bluff 133 feet (41 m) above the Pacific Ocean.
Aerial photo of the lighthouse, looking toward the northwest.

Point Conception (Chumash: Humqaq) is a headland along the Gaviota Coast in southwestern Santa Barbara County, California, United States. It is the point where the Santa Barbara Channel meets the Pacific Ocean, and as the corner between the mostly north-south trending portion of coast to the north and the east-west trending part of the coast near Santa Barbara, it makes a natural division between Southern and Central California,[1] and is commonly used as such in regional weather forecasts.[2] Point Conception Light is at its tip and the Jack and Laura Dangermond Preserve covers some of the surrounding land.

  1. ^ Characteristic patterns of shelf circulation at the boundary between central and southern California
  2. ^ NWS Coastal Waters Forecast, accessed 3/18/2013.

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