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San Diego Bay is a natural harbor

Harbor

A harbor or harbour , or haven, is a place where ships may shelter from the weather or are stored. Harbors can be man-made or natural....
adjacent to San Diego, California

San Diego, California

San Diego is the second largest city in California and the List of United States cities by population, located along the Pacific Ocean on the West Coast of the United States of the Western United States....
. It is 12 mi/19 km long, 1 mi/1.6 km–3 mi/4.8 km wide. The bay is bordered by the cities of San Diego, National City

National City, California

National City is a city in San Diego County, California, California, United States. The population was 54,260 at the 2000 census. National City is the second oldest city in San Diego County with a historic past....
, Chula Vista

Chula Vista, California

Chula Vista is a city in southern San Diego County, California, California, United States. Based on California Department of Finance estimates for January 1, 2007, the population was 227,723, making it the second largest city in San Diego County, the 14th largest in the State of California, and List of United States cities by population....
, Imperial Beach

Imperial Beach, California

Imperial Beach is a city in San Diego County, California, California, United States. The population was 26,992 at the 2000 census.Every year the city holds the annual Sand Castles event, which draws about 400,000 people over three days....
and Coronado

Coronado, California

Coronado is an affluent city in San Diego County, California, California, United States. The population was 24,100 at the 2000 census. Coronado is Spanish for "the crowned one," and thus it is nicknamed The Crown City....
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The western border of the bay is protected from the Pacific Ocean

Pacific Ocean

The Pacific Ocean is the largest of the Earth's oceanic divisions. Its name is derived from the Latin name Mare Pacificum, "peaceful sea", bestowed upon it by the Portugal explorer Ferdinand Magellan....
by a long, narrow strip of land called the Silver Strand

Silver Strand

Silver Strand is a name used for some beaches:* Silver Strand is a beach in south west County Donegal, Ireland* Silver Strand is an isthmus with a beach in San Diego County, California...
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San Diego Bay is a natural harbor

Harbor

A harbor or harbour , or haven, is a place where ships may shelter from the weather or are stored. Harbors can be man-made or natural....
adjacent to San Diego, California

San Diego, California

National City, California

Chula Vista, California

Imperial Beach, California

Coronado, California

Pacific Ocean

Silver Strand

Silver Strand is a name used for some beaches:* Silver Strand is a beach in south west County Donegal, Ireland* Silver Strand is an isthmus with a beach in San Diego County, California...
. The northern end of the Silver Strand expands to become North Island, the location of Naval Air Station North Island

Naval Air Station North Island

Naval Air Station North Island or NAS North Island is located at the north end of the Coronado, California peninsula on San Diego Bay and is the home port of several aircraft carriers of the United States Navy....
(the home port of several aircraft carriers including the USS Ronald Reagan

USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76)

USS Ronald Reagan is a Nimitz class aircraft carrier nuclear reactor technology supercarrier in the service of the United States Navy. The ninth ship of her class, she is named in honor of former President of the United States Ronald Reagan....
) and Coronado. Coronado is the site of the famous Hotel del Coronado

Hotel del Coronado

The Hotel del Coronado is a beachfront luxury hotel in the city of Coronado, California, just across the San Diego Bay from San Diego, California....
. The U.S. Navy has two more facilities on the bay, Naval Station San Diego

Naval Station San Diego

Naval Base San Diego is the largest base of the United States Navy on the west coast of the United States, in San Diego, California, California....
and Naval Base Point Loma

Naval Base Point Loma

Located in Point Loma, a neighborhood of San Diego, California, Naval Base Point Loma was established on Oct. 1, 1998 when Navy facilities in the Point Loma area of San Diego were consolidated under Commander, Navy Region Southwest....
at Ballast Point

Ballast Point

Ballast Point may refer to a number of geographic locations:Australia* Ballast Point, New South Wales, an area in the suburb of Birchgrove in Sydney...
, which is a Nuclear

Nuclear navy

Nuclear navy, or nuclear powered navy consists of ships powered by relatively small onboard nuclear reactors known as Nuclear marine propulsion....
Submarine

Submarine

A submarine is a watercraft capable of independent operation below water. It differs from a submersible, which has only limited underwater capability....
base. The Coast Guard Air Station San Diego

Coast Guard Air Station San Diego

CGAS San Diego is a United States Coast Guard United States Coast Guard Air Stations in downtown San Diego, California. The station is across street from the San Diego International Airport....
is across the bay from NAS North Island and the Federal Communications Commission

Federal Communications Commission

The Federal Communications Commission is an Independent agencies of the United States government, created, directed, and empowered by United States Congress statute , and with the majority of its commissioners appointed by the current President of the United States....
maintains a monitoring station on the Silver Strand.

San Diego International Airport

San Diego International Airport

San Diego International Airport , also known as Lindbergh Field, is a joint civil-miltary public airport located three miles northwest of the central business district of San Diego, California and also from the International Border at Tijuana, Mexico....
is also adjacent to the bay, across Harbor Drive from the Coast Guard Station. General Dynamics'

General Dynamics

General Dynamics Corporation is a defense conglomerate formed by mergers and divestitures, and as of 2008 it is the fifth largest defense contractor in the world....
National Steel and Shipbuilding Company

National Steel and Shipbuilding Company

National Steel and Shipbuilding Company, or simply NASSCO, is a shipyard in San Diego, California, and a division of General Dynamics. The yard specializes in constructing commercial cargo ships and auxiliary vessels for the US Navy and Military Sealift Command, which it has been producing since 1959....
(NASSCO), the only shipyard on the west coast capable of building and repairing large ocean-going vessels, is near the San Diego side of the San Diego-Coronado Bay Bridge. The bay has two container ship

Container ship

Container ships are cargo ships that carry all of their load in truck-size containers, in a technique called containerization. They form a common means of commercial intermodal freight transport....
facilities (one for refrigerated containers) and a cruise ship terminal.

Several museum ship

Museum ship

A museum ship, or sometimes memorial ship, is a ship that has been preserved and converted into a museum open to the public, for educational or memorial purposes....
s call San Diego Bay home. These include the USS Midway

USS Midway (CV-41)

USS Midway was an aircraft carrier of the United States Navy, the lead ship of Midway class aircraft carrier, and the first to be commissioned after the end of World War II....
, the largest aircraft carrier

Aircraft carrier

An aircraft carrier is a warship designed with a primary mission of deploying and recovering aircraft, acting as a seagoing airbase. Aircraft carriers thus allow a navy force to project air power great distances without having to depend on local bases for staging aircraft operations....
museum, and the Star of India
Star of India (ship)

Star of India was built in 1863 as Euterpe, a full-rigged iron windjammer ship in Ramsey, Isle of Man, Isle of Man. After a full career sailing from Great Britain to India then to New Zealand, she became a salmon hauler on the Alaska then to California route....
, the oldest "steel hulled" ship still sailing. The shallow southern end of the bay is used for evaporation ponds to extract salt from the sea water.

The Port of San Diego

Port of San Diego

The Port of San Diego is a self-supporting public benefit corporation established in 1962 by an act of the California State Legislature. The Port Act states that the policy of the State of California is to develop the harbors and ports of the State for multiple uses that benefit all the people of the State....
manages the harbor and administers the public lands adjacent to the bay.
It is a special government entity created by the state legislature in 1962. Revenue consists of tariffs and rents paid by district tenants.