Welcome to San Clemente California!
Welcome to San Clemente California!
San Clemente is a city in Orange County, California, United States. As of 2005, the city population was 65,338. San Clemente is the southernmost city in the county, six miles south of San Juan Capistrano. Its location makes it the only city in Orange County closer to San Diego than to Los Angeles.
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San Clemente HistoryPrior to the arrival of the Spanish, the area was inhabited by what came to be known as the Juaneño Indians. After the founding of the Mission San Juan Capistrano, the local natives were conscripted to work for the mission.
The great city of San Clemente was founded in 1925 by real estate developer Ole Hanson who named it San Clemente after a town in Spain, as it were San Clemente Island was named after the city later since it is directly west of the coast. Hanson envisioned it as a Spanish-style coastal resort, a "Spanish Village by the Sea." In an unprecedented move, he had a clause added to the deeds requiring all building plans to be submitted to an architectural review board in an effort to ensure that future development would retain some Spanish-style influence (for example, for many years it was required that all new buildings in the downtown area have red tile roofs). It was incorporated in 1928 with a council-manager government.
San Clemente Surfing Legacy
San Clemente catches swells all year long. Going from South to North, they include Trestles (technically just south of the city line), North Gate, State Park, Riviera, Lost Winds, Lasuen, The Hole, Beach House, T-Street, The Pier, 204, North Beach, and Poche.
San Clemente is also the surfing media capital of the world as well as a premier surfing destination. It is home to Surfing Magazine, The Surfer's Journal, and Longboard Magazine, with Surfer Magazine just up the freeway in San Juan Capistrano.
The city has a large concentration of surfboard shapers and manufacturers. Additionally, many world renowned surfers were raised in San Clemente or took up long-term residence in town, including Shane Beschen, Matt Archbold, Christian Fletcher, Mike Parsons (originally from Laguna Beach), Colin McPhillips, Colleen Mehlberg, Dino Andino, Chris Ward, and many, many others.
San Clemente High School has won 6 out of 7 most recent NSSA national surfing titles
* Source San Clemente Chamber of Commerce
Photos on this page by Sean Callahan for SoCal Beaches Magazine
