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Rincon Beach County Park, Carpinteria, California, US
Rincon Beach County Park, Carpinteria, California, US. This photograph is used as a geographic witness to the place, not as evidence of the historical date shown in the chapter.
- Visual description
- Rincon Beach County Park, Carpinteria, California, US
- Nature
- original
- Medium
- Open-licence photograph
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
BEFORE MODERN SPORT
Rincon
How work, access and surfing shaped Rincon.
Scroll to follow the shoreline through time
Carpinteria (; Spanish: Carpintería, meaning "Carpentry") is a small seaside city in southeastern Santa Barbara County, California.
Sources for this chapter
BEFORE TOURISM
Before the surf map
The linked local overview does not preserve a clear account of Rincon before modern tourism.
This edition leaves that part of the timeline open rather than mistaking the first surviving sporting reference for the beginning of the place.
Sources for this chapter
ACCESS CHANGES
The shore becomes reachable
The surviving overview does not identify one decisive access date for Rincon.
This edition therefore leaves that date open rather than turning gradual change into a false single event.
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Bobbymartinezrincon2019
Shot several surfers including the son of a friend and found that I had gotten a shot of Bobby. The local folk speak very highly of him. This photograph is used as a geographic witness to the place, not as evidence of the historical date shown in the chapter.
- Visual description
- Shot several surfers including the son of a friend and found that I had gotten a shot of Bobby. The local folk speak very highly of him
- Nature
- original
- Medium
- Open-licence photograph
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
ORGANISED SPORT
Surfing reads the same coast differently
Rincon is a point break on the Ventura and Santa Barbara county line whose long right-hand wave became internationally known.
THE LIVING MAP
The mapped place
Rincon is recorded at 34.373° N, 119.476° W. A surf map fixes a name to one stretch of moving water, but the place changes with tide, swell direction, wind and the shape of the seabed.
Sources for this chapter
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Ledger AOD.US.RINCON.V00
Rincon Beach County Park, Carpinteria, California, US
Rincon Beach County Park, Carpinteria, California, US. This photograph is used as a geographic witness to the place, not as evidence of the historical date shown in the chapter.
- Visual description
- Rincon Beach County Park, Carpinteria, California, US
- Nature
- original
- Medium
- Open-licence photograph
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
TODAY
Rincon now
Rincon remains a celebrated right-hand point break whose long wave crosses the Ventura and Santa Barbara county line.
THE LEDGER
Sources and credits
This exhibition is built from local, institutional and sporting records. The source ledger keeps the claims visible and leaves space for correction as further local evidence emerges.
Sources for this chapter
Artefacts in order of appearance
Rincon Beach County Park, Carpinteria, California, US
AOD.US.RINCON.V00 · original · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
Bobbymartinezrincon2019
AOD.US.RINCON.V01 · original · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
Editorial record
Full US Beta edition. Place evidence is adapted from the linked Carpinteria, California overview under CC BY-SA 4.0 and remains subject to named historical and local review. Cartography is generated from the PeakWave location catalogue.