Pajaro California - Explore Monterey County California

Recently the community of Pajaro was officially included as part of the neighboring community of Las Lomas. Pajaro is a farming community just south of Watsonville and near the Monterey County line. The town was a named after the Pajaro River given by the Spanish Portola Expedition who it is said came upon an indian village near a river in which the inhabitants were cooking a very large bird and so the soldiers named the river Rio del Pajaro, Spanish for "river of the bird." Pajaro is home of the "Pajaro Valley Golf Course."