El Desembarcadero, or The Landing, is a historical site in San Diego, California, in San Diego Bay. The El Desembarcadero site is a California Historical Landmark No. 64 listed on December 6, 1932. It is the site of the landing by Spaniards coming to New Spain, Pueblo de San Diego, now Old Town, San Diego. Small ship's boats brought cargo and passengers to the San Diego Mission, Presidio of San Diego and Pueblo San Diego.[1] It most likely that ships San Antonio and San Carlos landed at the site in 1769, looking fresh water on the San Diego River, on their San Diego expedition. San Antonio arrived in San Diego Bay on April 11, 1769, and the San Carlos on April 29. They landed on May 1, 1769, Some of the ships grew died in San Diego and Father Serra and Father Vila, remain in San Diego.[2] T[3][4]
| El Desembarcadero | |
|---|---|
 Ship San Carlos landed (desembarcadero) in San Diego in April 29, 1769 | |
| Location | Farragut Road,, San Diego, California |
| Coordinates | 32°44′03″N 117°13′12″W / 32.7342°N 117.2199°W |
| Designated | December 6, 1932 |
| Reference no. | 64 |
  Location of El Desembarcadero in California  El Desembarcadero (the United States) | |
The site is noted for the departing point of Josepha Carrillo and Henry Delano Fitch when they eloped and departed for Chile from the landing site on April 16, 1829. During World War II the old landing site was buried under dirt to build the San Diego Naval Training Station. Thus the landing site, El Desembarcadero, is about a half miles from the bay. A historical marker was placed on Farragut Road, between Rosecrans and Truxtun, at Point Loma in San Diego. The marker was placed there in 1996 by State Department of Parks and Recreation working with the United States Navy and Squibob Chapter, E Clampus Vitus.[5][6]
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edit- ^ "El Desembarcadero #64". Office of Historic Preservation, California State Parks. Retrieved 2012-10-07.
- ^ Eldredge, Zoeth (1909). The March of Portolá and the Discovery of the Bay of San Francisco. pp. 27–28.
- ^ Geiger, Maynard (1959). "The Life and Times of Fray Junípero Serra: The Man Who Never Turned Back". Academy of American Franciscan History. 1: 231.
- ^ Treutlein, Theodore E. (December 1968). "The Official Account of the Portolá Expedition of 1769-1770". California Historical Society Quarterly. 47 (4): 291–313. doi:10.2307/25154307. JSTOR 25154307.
- ^ "CHL # 64 El Desembarcadero San Diego". www.californiahistoricallandmarks.com.
- ^ "El Desembarcadero Historical Marker". www.hmdb.org.