Mugu Lagoon

Mugu Lagoon (/m[invalid input: 'oo']ˈɡuː/ Chumash: Muwu, "Beach")^[1] is a salt marsh located within the Naval Base Ventura County at the foot of the Santa Monica Mountains in Ventura County, California. The lagoon extends for 4.3 miles parallel to a narrow barrier beach.^[2]^[3] The first European to come ashore here was Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo on October 10, 1542. Cabrillo was the first European to visit present-day California, and he named it Muwu, which is Chumash meaning "beach" or "seashore".^[4] When the Europeans first discovered the lagoon, it functioned as the capital village of the Chumash Indians settled around Point Mugu.^[5] The Calleguas Creek, and its tributaries such as Arroyo Conejo and Arroyo Simi, discharges into the Pacific Ocean at its estuary in Mugu Lagoon.^[6]^[7]

References

^ McCall, Lynne; Perry, Rosalind (2002). California’s Chumash Indians : a project of the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Education Center (Revised ed.). San Luis Obispo, Calif: EZ Nature Books. ISBN 0936784156. {{cite book}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help)
^ Patrick, Ruth (1994). Rivers of the United States, Volume I: Estuaries. John Wiley & Sons. Page 126. ISBN 9780471303459.
^ Lentz, Joan Easton (2006). Introduction to Birds of the Southern California Coast. University of California Press. Page 249. ISBN 9780520243217.
^ Nichols, Gina (2011). The Navy at Point Mugu. Arcadia Publishing. Page 7. ISBN 9780738575322.
^ Skaarup, Harold A. (2002). California Warbird Survivors 2002: A Handbook on Where to Find Them. iUniverse. Page 118. ISBN 9780595236442.
^ Warner, Richard E. and Kathleen M. Hendrix (1984). California Riparian Systems: Ecology, Conservation, and Productive Management. University of California Press. Page 682. ISBN 9780520050358.
^ Murillo, Cathy (February 5, 1998). "Raw Sewage Continues to Spill Into Conejo Creek". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 19 February 2016.

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