County of Ventura
The county of Ventura belongs to the area of the Grand Los Angeles, in California of the south. With the census of 2000 its population was of 753.197 inhabitants. A recent estimate of the California Department off Finance indicates a population of 813.052 inhabitants.
History
The area was inhabited during tens of thousands of years by the Amerindian S Chumash. It is in 1782 that the Spanish colonize the zone by melting there the Mission San Buenaventura, named according to Bonaventure de Bagnorea. A city appears thereafter around the mission and takes the name of it; one knows it from now on under the diminutive of Ventura.
The County of Ventura was created in 1872 starting from the southern part of the Comté of Santa Barbara.
Main cities
- Ventura
- Thousand Oaks
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