Big Sur
Big Sur is a region on the Central Coast of California. It contains vast wildernesses and breathtaking views as it stretches 72 miles along the rugged Pacific Ocean.Photo: Calilover, Public domain.
- Type: Village with 1,000 residents
- Description: region of the central coast of California, United States
- Postal code: 93920
Notable Places in the Area
Pfeiffer Beach
Pfeiffer Beach is located in the Big Sur region of California. Pfeiffer Beach is situated 3½ km south of Big Sur.Localities in the Area
Posts
Posts is an Unincorporated community in the Big Sur region of Monterey County, California. Posts is situated 6 km southeast of Big Sur.Big Sur
- Categories: region, tourist attraction and locality
- Location: Monterey County, Central Coast, California, United States, North America
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Latitude
36.2702° or 36° 16' 13" northLongitude
-121.8075° or 121° 48' 27" westPopulation
1,000Elevation
44 metres (144 feet)United Nations Location Code
US GSWOpen Location Code
848W75CV+32OpenStreetMap ID
node 150966192OpenStreetMap Feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
5328563Wikidata ID
Q859413Big Sur Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Afrikaans: Big Sur
- Arabic: بيج سور
- Arabic: بيغ سور
- Arabic: ويكيبيديا:مسابقة مؤسسة الملك عبد العزيز ورجاله للموهبة والإبداع/مقالات/بيغ سور
- Armenian: Բիգ Սյուր
- Azerbaijani: Biq-Sur
- Belarusian: Біг-Сур
- Belarusian: Біг-Сюр
- Bengali: বিগ সার
- Bengali: বিগ সুয়ার
- Bulgarian: Биг Сър
- Catalan: Big Sur
- Cebuano: Big Sur
- Chinese: 大南方岬
- Chinese: 大瑟尔
- Chinese: 大瑟爾
- Chinese: 大苏尔
- Chinese: 大蘇爾
- Czech: Big Sur
- Danish: Big Sur
- Dutch: Big Sur
- Esperanto: Big Sur
- Finnish: Big Sur
- French: Big Sur
- Georgian: ბიგ-სიური
- German: Big Sur
- Greek: Μπιγκ Σουρ
- Hebrew: ביג סאר
- Hungarian: Big Sur
- Italian: Big Sur
- Japanese: ビッグサー
- Korean: 빅서
- Macedonian: Биг Сер
- Norwegian: Big Sur
- Norwegian Bokmål: Big Sur
- Persian: بیگ سور
- Persian: بیگسور
- Polish: Big Sur
- Portuguese: Big Sur
- Russian: Биг-Сур
- Russian: Биг-Сюр
- Scottish Gaelic: Big Sur, Calafòrnia
- Scottish Gaelic: Big Sur
- Slovenian: Big Sur, Kalifornija
- Spanish: Big Sur
- Swedish: Big Sur
- Turkish: Big Sur
- Ukrainian: Біг-Сюр
- Ukrainian: Біг Сюр
- Venetian: Grando Sud
- Arbolado
- Big Sur Valley
- Біґ-Сур
Other Places Named Big Sur
In the Area
- Bixby LandingLocality, 14 km northwest
- Danish Creek Recreation SiteLocality, 16 km northeast
- Bluff Camp Recreation SiteLocality, 17 km northeast
- Eleanor Vernon Hamilton GroveLocality, 18 km southeast
- Carmel River Guard StationLocality, 19 km northeast
- Anderson LandingLocality, 19 km southeast
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Big Sur. Photo: Eric Chan, CC BY 2.0.