Tag: La Selva Beach
La Selva Beach is a census-designated place (CDP) in Santa Cruz County, California. La Selva Beach sits at an elevation of 151 feet (46 m). The 2010 United States census reported La Selva Beach’s population was 2,843.
La Selva Beach is one of the several small communities located in and around Aptos. It neighbors Seascape to the north, Corralitos to the east, and Watsonville to the south. The name “La Selva” is Spanish for “the jungle”, or, in temperate regions, “the forest”. When founded, the small beach community was surrounded by dense conifer woods.
La Selva Beach lies near the San Andreas Fault, and was close to the epicenter of the October 17, 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP covers an area of 5.3 square miles (13.7 km²), all of it land.
At one point, the small area known as La Selva Beach was also known as Rob Roy in deference to the Scottish heritage of many of the inhabitants. The now-defunct (since 2000) Rob Roy Video Store…
