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Ventura County
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Ventura County is a region of the Central Coast of California, though it is sometimes considered part of Southern California.
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Ventura County is a region of the Central Coast of California, though it is sometimes considered part of Southern California.
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Channel Islands National Park - The Ventura harbor is the departure point for most excursions to the Channel Islands National Park, a series of islands that are home to incredible marine life, beautiful and remote scenery, and the wily Channel Islands fox.
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For the first hundred years after California became a state, Ventura County was primarily agrarian, and was known for its fertile farmland and orange groves. The rise of Los Angeles, its eastern neighbor, into become a major metropolis has resulted in the south third of the county becoming increasingly suburban. Thousand Oaks, Simi Valley, and Moorpark, in the southeast, are commonly considered the western extent of the Los Angeles exurbs.
The southwest of the county, Ventura, Oxnard, Camarillo, and Port Hueneme, have grown into more urbanized communities in their own right, with modest commercial and retail development to complement the agricultural sector that has thrived in the fertile soil deposited by the Santa Clara River, and the now-largely-channelized Calleguas Creek.
The northern half of the county has been less affected by Southern California's immense appetite for development. The Santa Ynez and Santa Susana mountain ranges are sparsely populated, and a large percentage of the land has been federally designated as the Los Padres National Forest by the U.S. government. In the southern foothills of the mountains, the cities of Santa Paula and Fillmore make up the primary population centers of the north county.
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