Santa Rosa Island is the second largest of the Channel Islands of California at 53,195 acres. Santa Rosa is located about 26 miles off the coast of Santa Barbara, California, in Santa Barbara County a
Sentinel-2 satellite image
Orcas near Santa Rosa Island
Munchkin dudleya, an endemic plant species
Torrey pine grove on Santa Rosa island. View towards Santa Cruz Island.
Chumash people
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The Chumash are a Native American people of the central and southern coastal regions of California, in portions of what is now Kern, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Ventura, and Los Angeles counties,
Pictographs, Chumash Painted Cave State Historic Park
Chumash Family by American sculptor George S. Stuart
Chumash musicians at Mission San Buenaventura, 1873
Fernando Librado was born in the Mexican era to two Chumash parents from Limuw.