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Batiquitos Lagoon Approximately a third of the lagoon consists of mud
flats; the remaining two-thirds are normally dry, barren salt flats which
temporarily fill with water to a depth of 30 centimeters (12 inches) or so
during the winter rains. There is no
outlet to the sea. The mud flats have a fringe of high marsh vegetation and
are marked by old tidal channels, shallow brackish and saline ponds, and islands
of salt marsh or brackish water vegetation.
Suaeda californica, Salicornia spp., Frankenia
grandifolia, and
Distichlis spicata are among the plants found here.
Numerous algae are also present. The area is utilized as a feeding and resting site by
migratory shorebirds. Integrity: Highways
and railway embankments have divided the area.
As the inlet is seldom open and the freshwater supply intermittent, there
is no flushing action. Use: Private July 1975
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