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Malibu, city and beach community in Los Angeles county, southern California, U.S. With 21 miles (34 km) of coastline, Malibu lies along the Pacific Coast Highway just west-northwest of Santa Monica. The region, originally inhabited by Chumash Indians, was visited in 1542 by the Spanish explorer Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo, who anchored in the lagoon west of what is now Santa Monica. Named for the ranchería settlement Umalibo, a section of a Spanish land grant called...

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