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When Spanish explorer Sebastián Vizcaíno sailed along the California coast in 1602, he had the sense our local bay was special, and he coined the first non-Indigenous place name in the region: Bahía de Monterrey – Monterey Bay – in honor of New Spain’s viceroy at the time, whose ancestral home was Monterrey, Spain.

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