El Nido, Los Angeles County, California

El Nido, California
Unincorporated community
Corral Canyon is in the bottom left, El Nido is the development in the canyon closer to the beach
Corral Canyon is in the bottom left, El Nido is the development in the canyon closer to the beach
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Coordinates: 34°02′37″N 118°44′21″W / 34.04361°N 118.73917°W / 34.04361; -118.73917
Country United States
State California
County Los Angeles
Elevation
244 m (801 ft)
GNIS feature ID1660598[1]

El Nido (Spanish for "The Nest") is a residential neighborhood in Corral Canyon in unincorporated Los Angeles County, California, United States. The community, originally developed in the 1920s,[2] is in the Santa Monica Mountains along the northern border of Malibu.[3] There are two developments in Corral Canyon, El Nido is the lower of the two.[4] The other was known as Newell in 1958[5] and has more recently been known as Malibu Bowl.[6][2] The El Nido houses look down on Solstice Canyon, the so-called "Mystery Silo" (used by TRW and JPL scientists in the mid-20th-century for testing of satellite equipment away from sources of electromagnetic interference), and a long-disused tract owned by the DWP that is prone to landslides.[7] There are 5.2 homes per acre in El Nido.[8]

The 2007 Corral Canyon fire destroyed 53 homes including a number in El Nido.[9]

The Malibu El Nido is not to be confused with the Redondo Beach El Nido, along the former Hawthorne–El Nido Line of the Pacific Electric railway.

El Nido on 2015 Malibu Beach Quadrangle map produced by USGS
  1. ^ "El Nido". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
  2. ^ a b "Mountain Development Plan OK'd". The Los Angeles Times. November 3, 1980. p. 29. Retrieved November 7, 2023.
  3. ^ California Department of Transportation (2005). State Highway Map 2005 (Map). Retrieved June 6, 2019 – via David Rumsey Historical Map Collection.
  4. ^ "Malibu residents help one another as they struggle to get their lives back — or just get into town". Los Angeles Times. November 18, 2018. Retrieved November 7, 2023.
  5. ^ "The Los Angeles Times 03 Dec 1958, page 1". Newspapers.com. Retrieved November 7, 2023.
  6. ^ "Malibu, again". The Los Angeles Times. November 25, 2007. p. 23. Retrieved November 7, 2023.
  7. ^ "Malibu residents want DWP to shore up landslide area". The Los Angeles Times. June 14, 2005. p. 7. Retrieved November 7, 2023.
  8. ^ "Corral Canyon". The Los Angeles Times. May 16, 1982. p. 613. Retrieved November 7, 2023.
  9. ^ "Before the worst happens". Topanga Messenger. December 17, 2009. p. 27. Retrieved November 7, 2023.